Former President Donald Trump plans to hold a rally in the name of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter fatally shot during the assassination attempt against Trump at his Pennsylvania rally earlier this month. "I WILL BE GOING BACK TO BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, FOR A BIG AND BEAUTIFUL RALLY, HONORING THE SOUL OF OUR BELOVED FIREFIGHTING HERO, COREY, AND THOSE BRAVE PATRIOTS INJURED TWO WEEKS AGO," Trump wrote on Truth Social . "WHAT A DAY IT WILL BE — FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS.
" Comperatore's family said that he dived on top of his wife and two daughters to protect them when the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, who was also killed in the attack, opened fire on the former president. Trump himself escaped with just minor injuries to his ear. Read also: The strange reason Trump showed off misspelled jacket for firefighter killed at rally His family refused to take a condolence call from President Joe Biden, in honor of Comperatore's commitment to Trump.
"He would not have wanted me to talk to him," his wife told reporters. She added: "I don’t have any ill will towards Joe Biden." Trump himself ultimately did not attend Comperatore's funeral, with officials citing security concerns.
He did, however, show off Comperatore's firefighting uniform at his nominating convention in his honor. No motive is still officially known for the attack, although the few details that are known appear to suggest that Crooks himself came from a heavily Republican background and his motivation for the killing was not partisan politics, as he also apparently researched how he might plan an attack on Biden as well. All of this comes as Trump's campaign tries to regain its footing after Biden's exit from the race and Vice President Kamala Harris takes over as the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.
A body language expert who viewed Donald Trump's photo with Benjamin Netanyahu Friday broke out into song when he identified a hand gesture he'd never before seen the former president exhibit. "When I think about you," Dr. Jack Brown sang, "I touch myself.
" Brown , a physician whose expertise has been featured on CNN and ABC News among others, spoke to Raw Story hours after Trump shared a photo of him meeting with the Israeli prime minister in Florida . At Raw Story's request, Brown took a close look at a posed photograph, which can be found below, of Trump and Netanyahu shaking hands. The musical outburst was in relation to an odd handshake in which Trump laid his left hand on top of the right, which is grasping Netanyahu's hand.
"I don’t think I’ve seen him do that before," Brown said. ALSO READ: Boebert, MTG and far-fight friends derail Speaker Mike Johnson’s summer plans The photograph shows Trump standing on the left side of the frame — a position of dominance, according to Brown — with his right hand shaking Netanyahu's. Trump's right hand is rotated above Netanyahu's, which Brown explained was "something of a dominance display.
" That did not surprise Brown, who argues Trump displays physical signs of the Dark Tetrad , which Psychology Today defines as four interrelated negative personality features: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism. "He’s got all four of those," Brown said. "Narcissism is just a tiny bit of his Dark Tetrad.
" What shocked Brown was the placement of Trump's left hand, which rested gently on top of his own, already dominantly placed, hand. "Why are you touching your own hand?" Brown said. "Why is he touching himself when he’s shaking another guy’s hand?" It was this question that inspired Brown to sing the chorus of the Divinyls' 1990 hit "I touch myself.
" "He’s having to self-touch and self-soothe," Brown said. Brown then posited the determined gesture signified one of the four character traits that define the Dark Tetrad. "It’s another sign of his narcissism; he’s putting him at the center, he’s doing this for himself," said Brown.
"Everything he does is transactional and this is another sign of that. "Touching himself is a perfect sign of narcissism and his ego." See the picture below or at this link.
CONTINUE READING Show less Fox News host Neil Cavuto wonders if Republicans are underestimating Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris , whose prosecutorial finesse on the debate stage may pose a serious threat to Donald Trump . “I’m wondering if Republicans – because they focus on things that seem silly to me, like the cackling and all of that – don’t appreciate the fact this woman could be a barracuda,” Cavuto said during his afternoon broadcast on Fox News Friday. “She is a prosecutor and she will try, in any exchange with Donald Trump, to prosecute him, and I don’t know if they appreciate the magnitude of that.
” Harris served as California attorney general from 2011 to 2017, and before that prosecuted serious drug and violent crimes as a district attorney. She brings serious chops to the debate stage, Cavuto noted, compared to Joe Biden, who performed disastrously against Trump in June. ALSO READ: Boebert, MTG and far-fight friends derail Speaker Mike Johnson’s summer plans “She's very good at speaking in complete sentences and succinctly,” Cavuto said.
“I’m just curious how that alone changes the dynamics...
Now it’s a totally different game.” Trump appeared to backpedal from debating Harris on television, saying he won’t commit to scheduling a debate until she has been confirmed as the official party nominee. Republicans have good reason to be worried, said political strategist Doug Shoen.
“Republicans were lulled into a false sense of security in the spring when she was polling lower than the already weakened Joe Biden,” Shoen said. “I think the jolt of energy she has gotten has energized Democrats. “If I were the republicans, I would be very nervous now,” Shoen said.
Watch the clip below or at this link . CONTINUE READING Show less Legal analyst Lisa Rubin called out former President Donald Trump over his claim that a gag order in his New York hush money trial prevents him from attacking his Democratic rival. Trump is trying to get his guilty verdict thrown out — claiming he's immune from prosecution — in the hush money case, in which he was accused of paying off an adult film star ahead of the 2016 election to keep her quiet about an affair.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has challenged Trump's claim that the Supreme Court gave him a "get out of jail free" card, arguing the high court super-sized presidential immunity, but didn't give Trump a free pass across the board. Read Also: A criminologist explains why Trump’s Manhattan trial is the biggest threat to his freedom Former assistant D.A.
Catherine Christian explained that Trump is quibbling over former White House adviser Hope Hicks' testimony in the case. Because she worked in the White House, Trump believes she should have been off limits. "So, it's not the hush money payments that happened before.
It's what happened when he was president," she said. Rubin wrote a column Thursday that discussed Trump's proclamations on Truth Social maintaining his innocence. At one point, talking about the hush money trial, Trump wrote that the judges prevent him from being able to campaign and attack Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden.
"Of those three characterizations yesterday," Rubin said that one "made my jaw drop the most." "Nobody affiliated with their administration is even remotely impacted by that gag order," said Rubin. "The remnants of the gag order that are in place have to do with the jurors.
They have to do with people who are actually participants in the trial: the lawyers, the courtroom personnel, their family members. And then, specifically, the family members of the judge and of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg." "How that relates to Kamala Harris and his inability to campaign against her, I'm at a loss for words," Rubin closed.
Jurors convicted Trump in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records around hush money he paid to actress and director Stormy Daniels to cover up a tryst they'd had years prior. Trump denies the affair but paid Daniels the cash ahead of the 2016 election. See the discussion below or at the link here .
'Made my jaw drop': Legal expert details lie Trump told about hush money case www.youtube.com CONTINUE READING Show less.
