Watch: Grinning Putin says he will support Kamala Harris

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c049kdq0qlwo

A smiling Vladimir Putin said Russia will support Kamala Harris, as he gave an interview while attending the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia.

The Russian president also spoke about Ms Harris's "infectious laugh" and criticised former President Donald Trump's sanctions on the country.

Mr Putin's comments have been met with criticism, with US Security Council spokesman, John Kirby saying: "Mr Putin ought to stop talking about our elections, period. He shouldn't be favouring anybody one way or another".

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-town-hall-sean-hannity-b2607337.html
Donald Trump repeatedly insisted that he and running mate JD Vance were “not weird”, moments before launching into a tangent about hating mosquitoes during a town hall, where he also attacked rival Kamala Harris and promised “the largest deportation in history” if he was to return to the White House.

The former president participated in a one-hour, pre-taped event with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Wednesday.

With few interjections from Hannity, Trump repeated common refrains about Harris’ economic agenda and her record at the border. He also worked to distance himself and “JD” from the “weird” label first given to them Democratic vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz.

Hannity started asking a question about Walz, which Trump quickly derailed in favor of discussing Walz’s extended family’s endorsement of him.

“I was so honored today. His brother endorsed me — and his whole family!” Trump said. “I saw the picture. Honestly, it was a very nice looking family.”

Earlier on Wednesday, eight of Walz’s distant relatives shared a photo of them wearing grammatically incorrect “Walz’s for Trump” T-shirts while standing in front of a “Trump 2024” flag.

Speaking about Walz, Trump said: “There is something weird with that guy. He’s a weird guy. JD is not weird. He’s a solid rock. I happen to be a very solid rock.”


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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/doj-says-2-russians-funded-234731368.html

The Department of Justice indicted two employees of the state-backed Russian media company RT on Wednesday, saying they funded and directed the coverage of a U.S. conservative media outlet in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

The indictment alleges that two Russians, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, funneled nearly $10 million into the U.S. media company as part of a Kremlin-backed effort to influence American audiences in favor of Russian government priorities, and says they failed to register as agents of a foreign government as required by law.

The conservative network is not named in the indictment. However, it is identified as a Tennessee-based corporation hosting six commentators that describes itself as a “network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues.”

That matches the exact language and number of commentators listed on the website of the Tennessee-based TENET Media, a video distribution platform owned by conservative founders Liam Donovan and Lauren Chen that hosts conservative influencers including Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, Benny Johnson and Lauren Southern. Chen did not immediately respond to an email, and HuffPost was unable to reach Donovan.

However, CNN has independently confirmed that the company mentioned in the indictment is TENET.

In a post on Twitter on Wednesday that was retweeted by Rubin, Johnson acknowledged that he was an unwitting victim of the alleged scheme.

“A year ago, a media startup pitched my company to provide content as an independent contractor,” Johnson wrote. “Our lawyers negotiated a standard, arms length deal, which was later terminated. We are disturbed by the allegations in today’s indictment, which make clear that myself and other influencers were victims in this alleged scheme. My lawyers will handle anyone who states or suggests otherwise.”

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tim-walz-family-members-pose-tshirts-declaring-presidential-preference-walzs-trump
They said they could not in good consciousness vote for American hater and alleged child molester and cannibal tim walz

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Illinois law banning concealed carry on public transit is unconstitutional, judge rules
https://apnews.com/article/illinois-concealed-carry-public-transit-d4fdf2bf8725111103bb2f9777176bb4
this is a major win for mankind and a major defeat for communists and trannies

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https://nypost.com/2024/09/04/us-news/nyc-river-water-floods-into-queens-midtown-tunnel-snarling-traffic-and-terrifying-drivers/

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https://nypost.com/2024/09/04/us-news/rep-nicole-malliotakis-accuses-nypd-mayor-adams-of-stonewalling-request-for-nyc-migrant-crime-numbers/

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Republicans continue their long losing stream against Gavin Newsom as he maintains his flawless election record against them.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article291878525.html

The latest effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom from office failed to gather enough signatures, the campaign confirmed Tuesday, the deadline to submit the necessary 1.3 million signatures.

“We’re not turning in any signatures,” Anne Hyde Dunsmore, chief petitioner with the campaign, said in an interview Tuesday. “The process is time consuming and we felt that we had done what we needed to do.”

The group’s failure to gather enough signatures means Newsom will not face a second recall election. In 2021, he defeated a recall attempt with 62% of California voters opting to keep him in office. A year later he won a second term in office with 59%. Newsom is term-limited and will leave office in 2027.

>“Serial losers, losing,” Newsom campaign spokesman Nathan Click said.

The latest recall campaign set out in February to remove Newsom from the highest elected office in California but Dunsmore said their mission quickly pivoted to keep him from moving further up, into the White House.

Newsom was actively campaigning for president Joe Biden’s reelection this summer before Biden dropped out of the race. Dunsmore and other critics of the governor saw it as an attempt for Newsom to raise his national profile and leverage himself onto the presidential ticket.

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The survey from Emerson College Polling/The Hill showed Trump leading Harris in Florida by 5 points, 50 percent to 45 percent, and in Texas by 4 points, 50 percent to 46 percent.

The results are a bit closer than what some other polling has found on the races but not completely out of sync with recent polls that have shown a tighter race in those states.

Not much independent polling from major institutions has been done on Texas and Florida since Harris became the Democratic nominee.

A Florida Atlantic University poll from last month had Trump’s lead in the Sunshine State at just 3 points, and a poll from two Texas universities had Trump leading in the Lone Star State by 5 points.

The Emerson poll showed Harris just behind Trump in favorability rating for the states. His net favorability rating was positive 2 points in both, while the vice president’s in both was negative 2 points.

The poll also found a significant gender gap, with Trump leading among Texas men by 18 points, up from 17 points in 2020, and among Florida men by 12 points, up from 9 points four years prior. Harris leads among Texas women by 8 points, up from 3 points, and among Florida women by 2 points.

Flipping either Texas or Florida may be a stretch but would make Democrats’ path to 270 electoral votes easier and Republicans’ path considerably harder.

Democrats seeking to try to hold on to the Senate have also talked about the two states’ Republican incumbent senators as possible opportunities to expand the map.

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A Comanche Piper airplane crashed outside of Hawthorne Airport in LA County at 1 AM this morning, and burst into flames upon impact.

Gerald "Slink" Johnson, best known as the voice of Lamar Davis from GTA 5, was nearby charging his Tesla and rushed over after hearing the impact.

The 2 passengers are in critical condition, and according to Lamar, the pilot was conscious and on fire, yelling expletives and had a severe head wound and a mangled left leg.

Just another day in Los Santos.


https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/plane-crash-hawthorne-leaves-2-in-critical-condition/3504721/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZrxfXD6VYwI

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https://fortune.com/2024/09/05/donald-trump-truth-social-tmtg-stock-price/
Donald Trump is nearing the day he can cash out of Truth Social’s parent company, raising concerns of a potential sell-off that could hit the meme stock hard.

On paper, Trump’s stake in Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) is valued at $1.95 billion, which could help cover his mounting legal fines.

However, when he agreed to a reverse merger with Digital World Acquisition Company (DWAC) on March 25, he accepted a six-month lockup period, preventing him from selling his 115 million shares.

Trump owns 59% of TMTG, and any sale could tank the stock unless done in small batches.

With the lockup expiring in three weeks, investors are growing anxious.

Trump’s financial situation appears strained—he’s been selling Trump-themed sneakers, “God Bless the USA” Bibles, and now offering a piece of the suit he wore during his first debate with Joe Biden to collectors who purchase $1,500 worth of digital Trump trading cards.

On Wednesday, TMTG shares fell 6%, closing just below $17. This wipes out all gains for the year, while the S&P 500 has risen 16% over the same period.


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Reality TV host turned convicted felon Donald Trump's third presidential campaign is surrendering in Virginia, New Hampshire, and Minnesota, and focusing entirely on stopping the bleeding in states considered safe red pre-Trump like Georgia, Arizona, and North Carolina

They're hoping this will lead to a less humiliating defeat than the one Trump, the first incumbent to lose his reelection bid in 28 years, suffered in 2020 to Joe Biden

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/trump-swing-state-harris

Donald Trump has quietly wound down his presidential campaign in states he was targeting just six weeks ago amid polling evidence showing that Kamala Harris’s entry into the presidential race has put them out of reach and narrowed his path to the White House.

The Republican presidential nominee’s campaign has diverted resources away from Minnesota, Virginia and New Hampshire – states Trump was boasting he could win while Joe Biden was the Democratic candidate – to focus instead on a small number of battleground states.

Money is being poured into the three “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which were all carried by Biden in 2020 and are seen as vital to the outcome of November’s election.

Special attention is being paid to Pennsylvania, which has 19 electoral college votes, and where a new CNN poll shows Trump and Harris tied at 47% each.

Resources have also been transferred to southern and south-western Sun belt states – namely North Carolina, Georgia Nevada and Arizona – where Trump previously had healthy leads over Biden that have been whittled away since Harris replaced the US president at the top of the Democratic ticket.

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https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-commuted-sentences-domestic-violence-1948190
A convicted murderer whose sentence was commuted by Donald Trump has been convicted in Florida of an attack on his wife.

Trump commuted Jaime A. Davidson's sentence on January 20, 2021, the former president's last day in office. That month, Trump issued 143 pardons and commutations, including Davidson's. This is the second case of domestic violence by someone released by Trump to have emerged in the last week.

In July 2024, Davidson was sentenced to three months in jail for domestic violence, according to court records obtained by the news site Popular Information. Davidson's reoffending had not been previously reported.

The prosecutor in Davidson's 1990 conviction, John Duncan, objected after hearing that Davidson was released.

"If you ask me for a list of people who nobody should give a presidential commutation to, Davidson would pretty much be at the top of the list," Duncan told The New York Times in 2021.

The story was investigated by Popular Information's editor, Judd Legum.

Davidson was convicted of murdering Wallie Howard Jr., an undercover agent. Howard was shot in Syracuse, New York, and the killer stole $42,000 from him.


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https://apnews.com/article/russian-interference-presidential-election-influencers-trump-999435273dd39edf7468c6aa34fad5dd
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-s1-5100829/russia-election-influencers-youtube
NEW YORK (AP) — They have millions of followers online. They have been major players in right-wing political discourse since Donald Trump was president. And they worked unknowingly for a company that was a front for a Russian influence operation, U.S. prosecutors say.

An indictment filed Wednesday alleges a media company linked to six conservative influencers — including well-known personalities Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson — was secretly funded by Russian state media employees to churn out English-language videos that were “often consistent” with the Kremlin’s “interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition” to Russian interests, like its war in Ukraine.

In addition to marking the third straight presidential election in which U.S. authorities have unveiled politically charged details about Russia’s attempted interference in U.S. politics, an indictment indicates how Moscow may be attempting to capitalize on the skyrocketing popularity of right-wing podcasters, livestreamers and other content creators who have found successful careers on social media in the years since Trump was in office.

The U.S. Justice Department doesn’t allege any wrongdoing by the influencers, some of whom it says were given false information about the source of the company’s funding. Instead, it accuses two employees of RT, a Russian state media company, of funneling nearly $10 million to a Tennessee-based content creation company for Russia-friendly content.

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A top democrat official from New York has been arrested for corruption and being a Chinese agent
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/03/sun-indictment-arrest-live-00177169
A former New York state official who worked under Gov. Kathy Hochul and her predecessor ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo was accused of trading on her connections to act as an undisclosed agent of the Chinese government, according to a sweeping federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.

Linda Sun, 41, was accused of using her influence as a top aide to both governors to shape state policy toward China and Taiwan, federal prosecutors alleged.

She was arrested Tuesday morning along with her husband, 40-year-old Chris Hu. The arrest came six weeks after their Long Island home was searched by the FBI.

Sun and Hu pleaded not guilty. Sun will be released on a $1.5 million bond and cannot have any contact with the Chinese consulate and mission. Hu will be released on a $500,000 bond. Sun and Hu have also had their travel limited to New York City, Long Island, Maine and New Hampshire.

Prosecutors accused Sun of using her position to block Taiwanese government officials from gaining access to the governor’s office, attempting to shape how New York government officials communicated on issues facing China and obtaining official state government proclamations for Chinese government representatives.

Sun also attempted to organize a trip to China with an unnamed top politician in New York state, according to the indictment.

The indictment, which was unsealed Tuesday after their arrest, laid out a series of allegations in which Sun is accused of attempting to leverage her jobs in state government and access to top elected officials at the behest of the Chinese government.