Donald Trump latest updates: Trump reposts AI Taylor Swift ‘endorsement’ while George Santos to learn his fate in court

Here’s Andrew Feinberg’s report on Trump’s original comments:

Convicted felon Donald Trump says dealing with crime will be his top priority if he is re-elected (along with four other top priorities), calling Chicago a “war zone” over the number of shootings that take place in the city and blaming “weak, liberal politicians”.

Here’s his latest shouty, all-caps post from Truth Social:

CRIME IN AMERICA IS OUT OF CONTROL. I AM GOING TO MAKE IT, ALONG WITH THE ECONOMY, INFLATION, STRONG BORDERS, AND ENERGY DOMINANCE, MY TOP PRIORITY. THE DEMOCRATS ARE HOLDING THEIR CONVENTION IN CHICAGO IN ORDER TO SHOWCASE IT, AND YET 117 PEOPLE WERE SHOT, 17 KILLED, ON THE FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND, AND 40 WERE SHOT THIS WEEKEND. THAT IS A WAR ZONE, AND WILL BE HANDLED ACCORDINGLY. I WILL BRING CRIME IN AMERICA DOWN TO A TINY FRACTION OF WHAT IT IS TODAY. MOTHERS WILL NO LONGER BE LOSING THEIR CHILDREN BECAUSE WEAK, LIBERAL POLITICIANS HAVE GIVEN UP ON SECURING A CRIME FREE USA!!! I WILL STOP VIOLENT CRIME IN AMERICA!!!

Crime is actually falling per the latest data from the FBI.

Senator and Army National Guard veteran Tammy Duckworth has slammed Trump, calling him “despicable” for his degrading comments about military veterans and for suggesting the highest civilian award is more prestigious than the Medal of Honor awarded to service members who have demonstrated “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity.”

After a torrent of video posts on Truth Social over the weekend, Donald Trump hammered out his latest attack on Kamala Harris on today, calling her “Marxist trained” and “Comrade”.

Here’s what was on the former president’s mind this morning:

The Radical Left protesters in Chicago are going after the Democrat Party because the know they are weak and ready to break into a full blown party of Socialism or, if they really do their job, and with a little bit of luck, the Communist Party of the United States of America. They are already very close and, having a Marxist trained and believing President whose father is a Marxist professor, Comrade Kamala Harris, stranger things have happened! November 5th, 2024, will be the most important day in the history of our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown has threatened to sue Trump after the former president told a seemingly completely fictious story about him.

During a lie-filled press conference at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, the former president recounted what now appears to be a tall tale about a helicopter ride he claims he once took with Brown, in which the latter allegedly told him scurrilous stories about Kamala Harris, whom he had dated.

Brown has since denied ever being in a chopper with Trump and says he supports Harris “religiously”.

Here’s more from James Liddell and Graig Graziosi.

Kamala Harris’s campaign has slammed Trump for planning a rally in a Michigan town with long ties to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and white supremacists.

Trump’s campaign announced his return to Michigan this upcoming Tuesday with an event in Howell, a city of roughly 10,000 residents with long, storied links to the racist mob, which openly held events north of the town throughout the 1970s and even sporadically into the present era.

Pro-KKK graffiti was reportedly found in Howell as recently as 2021 – and white supremacists staged a rally there just last month.

Here’s more from John Bowden.

Here’s James Liddell with more adventures in artifice from Trump, further evidence that he’s lost his knack as a poster.

This is what a non-weird presidential campaign looks like, by the way.

The Democratic ticket toured western Pennsylvania by bus on Sunday, meeting voters, giving speeches, answering policy questions from reporters, manning a phone bank and even stopping at a gas station for Doritos.

You know, like normal politicians actually interested in governing.

The disgraced former New York Republican congressman and Trump ally, ousted amid a series of scandals, is reportedly set to accept a plea deal in his federal criminal case today in order to avoid a trial.

Here’s Ariana Baio’s report.

Trump has seemingly turned to artificial intelligence to suggest Taylor Swift fans are supporters of his, as he desperately battles to win back the limelight with Kamala Harris’s Democratic National Convention kicking off in Chicago today.

On Sunday, the former president used his Truth Social platform to post a string of screenshots showing alleged Swift fans dressed in T-shirts reading: “Swifties for Trump.”

Above the images, he wrote: “I accept!”

This is just getting tragic.

That said, at least one of those people featured above is real.

Jenna Piwowarczyk has sent The Independent the following shot of herself with Trump in Racine, Wisconsin, taken as he rallied there on June 18, so there are some true “Swifties for Trump” out there.

Here’s more from Becca Monaghan.