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Debate Update:  The September 10 on again of again debate between Harris and Trump is on, at least for now.  The two sides had been arguing over mic procedure, with Harris’ team wanting the mic’s open at all times and Trump’s team preferring that candidate’s mics remain off when the other side is speaking, the deal struck when Biden was the candidate.  After a verbal tussle, with Trump actually saying that he’d prefer they stay on at all times, his team, which wants to limit opportunities for him to make rude and stupid off the cuff remarks, prevailed so the debate will proceed with the Biden negotiated mic procedures.  Much the way Trump continues to assert that the November election will be tainted, but only if he doesn’t win, he’s spent the last few days dumping on everyone at debate host ABC News calling the network the “nastiest and unfair,” but that’s just his way of alerting his base that if he doesn’t perform well, it will be the network’s fault, not his.  In other news, Harris and Walz will be sitting down for their first joint interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Thursday.

Practice Makes Perfect?   Though Trump would prefer everyone to believe that he’s not engaging in any debate prep, he has been practicing with former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabard standing in for Kamala. Although Gabbard, who Hillary Clinton once aptly described as a “favorite of the Russians,” ran for president as a Democrat in 2016, she has grown increasingly red pilled ever since.  Her politics are akin to those of Tucker Carlson who she frequently subbed for during his last year on Fox. She’s been in Trump’s camp for some time, but to counter the growing list of Republicans and former security officials who’ve endorsed Harris, Trump’s team announced her endorsement and her participation on his transition team this week as if it was new following fellow endorser and transition team member RFK Jr’s assertion that a lot of prominent Democrats would be soon endorsing Trump. That’s probably not going to happen, but then again, Trump’s crowd tends to prevaricate.  As evidenced by what two members of his staff did this week at Arlington Cemetery, they also tend to be violent and disrespectful.  Trump who frequently disses veterans, especially those who’ve died or been injured in action participated in a wreath laying ceremony honoring the 13 service members killed during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.  His appearance was less about the service members and more about staging a photo op to highlight and blame the messy Afghan withdrawal which he initiated on Biden and Harris. The problem is that “Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign.”  When told to ditch the cameras, two members of Trump’s staff got into a physical altercation with an official at the cemetery. Naturally, Trump’s team denied that they’d done anything wrong, and instead issued a statement attacking the unnamed Arlington official as “suffering from a mental health episode.”  The incident was caught on camera, the individual was just doing his job. 

Legal Update: Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is still trying to get things done, nice but increasingly pointless because at best nothing will come of his hard work until after the election and at worst, if Trump wins, he’ll be out of a job. That said, Smith is still trying to make Trump face consequences for his actions. He’s appealed Judge Eileen “loose” Cannon’s decision to throw out the Mar a Lago purloined documents case by arguing that her ruling which followed from her conclusion that Attorney General Garland had illegally appointed Smith was ill founded, wrong, idiotic, and ignores lots of precedent. Yesterday he filed a superseding indictment against Trump in the Washington DC case. The new indictment deletes the “crimes” that the Supreme Court recently opined can be committed by presidents because of their newly defined expanded immunity.    

😊:  Some good news for a change on the hostage front.  Yesterday, Israeli forces rescued Farhan al-Qadi, a 52-year-old member of Israel’s Bedouin Arab minority. Al-Qadi who was found in a Hamas tunnel, had been working as a security official at a produce packaging plant on October 7 when he was kidnapped. He’s one of 7 Israeli Bedouins who were kidnapped on October 7, 18 others were killed during the massacre.

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