Trump’s ruthless response to Pence’s danger on Jan 6 exposed in filing; Harris visits birthplace of GOP: Live

National correspondent for NewsNation’s Cuomo, Ali Bradley, secured the first interview with Donald Trump following the unsealing of Jack Smith’s latest filing in the election interference case.

The former president said about the special counsel: “He’s a deranged person. I call him deranged Jack Smith. He just lost the big documents case. That was the biggest of them all. They said the documents case and they said that was the toughest of them all. Let me tell you, we just won it. And it was won strongly and completely. And it was a total victory in Florida. And he is a person who is trying and he works for Kamala and he works for Joe. This was a weaponization of government, and that’s why it was released 30 days before the election. And it’s nothing new in there, by the way. Nothing new.”

Here’s Alex Woodward’s report on what we learned from Smith’s new filing.

Speaking on his Risky Business podcast, Nate Silver – founder and former editor-in-chief of data-driven news outlet FiveThirtyEight – described RFK Jr’s endorsement the “most important” of the race so far.

In his latest post on Truth Social, Donald Trump continues to protest his innocence in reaction to what has come to light in the new filing made by Jack Smith in the 2020 election subversion case against the former president.

He also accuses the Justice Department of election interference.

Here’s what Trump posted:

FOR 60 DAYS PRIOR TO AN ELECTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE IS SUPPOSED TO DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT WOULD TAINT OR INTERFERE WITH SAID ELECTION. THEY DISOBEYED THEIR OWN RULE IN FAVOR OF COMPLETE AND TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE. I DID NOTHING WRONG, THEY DID! THE CASE IS A SCAM, JUST LIKE ALL OF THE OTHERS, INCLUDING THE DOCUMENTS CASE, WHICH WAS DISMISSED!

JD Vance’s debate performance was “hated by hardcore MAGA social media,” according to a top former Republican strategist.

“Dive into hard core MAGA social media. A lot of them hated Vance’s debate. They wanted Vance to expose Harris as the devil,” Stevens said in a post on X.

“Instead he was on a personal rehabilitation campaign aimed at 2028.”

CNN reports that when the network reached out to Melania Trump’s book publisher to request an interview with the former first lady about the publication of her memoir they were sent an NDA agreement with the stipulation that a “licensing fee” for the sitdown would cost $250,000.

The network did not sign the agreement and the publisher has said the payment demand was sent by mistake.

“Neither Melania nor anyone from her team knew anything about the NDA and the document that was sent reflected an internal miscommunication,” Tony Lyons, the president and publisher of Skyhorse, told CNN in a statement. “Had CNN signed an NDA, in the normal course of business, we would have approached Melania’s team to discuss [specifics of the interview].”

Alex Woodward explains the case against Donald Trump as new evidence comes to light in Jack Smith’s latest court filing.

MAGA Republicanism has a pretty simple recipe for success: untested political novice with celebrity appeal, plus right-wing populism, equals election victories.

John Bowden looks at how this is playing out on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Journalist and former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson believes there is a political strategy to Melania Trump confirming her support for abortion rights.

Carlson wrote on X: “Why now? Ya she’s selling a book — but don’t think for a minute there’s not massive political strategy here to try & move the needle w/ suburban moms & independents …. As both Trump & Vance have tried to moderate destroying a woman’s choice.”