Trump says Elon Musk will be country’s ‘cost cutter’ at Michigan rally as Harris visits border: Live updates

Former first lady Melania Trump is now a bestselling author, as calculated by Amazon’s sales rankings.

Her forthcoming memoir, Melania, is the #1 seller in Amazon’s “Books” category, as of Friday afternoon. It is scheduled for an October 8 release.

Stanley McChrystal, a retired Army general once dubbed “the finest warrior” in the U.S. military, has endorsed Kamala Harris for president.

McChrystal, who oversaw the Afghanistan war during the Obama administration, wrote in a New York Times op-ed on Thursday that the decision was “starkly simple.”

“Ms. Harris has the strength, the temperament and, importantly, the values to serve as commander in chief,” the retired general wrote. “When she sits down with world leaders like President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, representing the United States on the global stage, I have no doubt that she is working in our national interest, not her own.”

Donald Trump praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at his Warren, Michigan rally on Friday afternoon.

“I know he’s here, RFK Jr,” Trump said. ”He’s a big part of what we’re doing. And he does have great ideas. Getting a Kenned to endorse a Trump, a Republican, that was a big.”

Donald Trump claimed Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, will be the country’s “cost cutter” if he’s elected.

Trump made the comments at a Michigan rally on Friday afternoon.

“I’m gonna get Elon, and he’s great at this, he’s gonna be our cost cutter…I don’t think I can get him full-time because he’s a little bit busy sending rockets up and all the things he does but, but he’s so much into that, he said the waste of this country is crazy, and we’re going to get Elon Musk to be our cost cutter,” Trump said.

“He’s going to do it for zero, but he wants to see this country be great, and he’ll do it,” he added.

Donald Trump just told his supporters in Warren, Michigan that he “never had proof” of his claims that countries are sending criminals to immigrate into the US.

”In Venezuela, their crime is down 72% because they’ve taken their criminals, their gang members, their drug dealers, and they brought them into the United States of America…They’re dumping them in our country, and I never had proof,” Trump said.

Trump went on to cite “numbers” that “just came out” showing that people convicted of crimes are immigrating to the US.

“Nobody’s ever seen these numbers for years, nobody’s ever seen them,” he said. “And probably some patriot in ICE or somebody just did something. They just said, ‘The country’s going bad. You can’t have a country like that.’”

“So I’ve never really spoken about this, because this is the first time we have these numbers: 13,000 convicted, jailed murderers tougher than any of our criminals,” he added. “The only one good thing about this is they make our criminals look like very nice people.”

Trump has consistently spread false claims to promote his hardline agenda on immigration. However, peer-reviewed studies show that people who immigrate to and live in the U.S. without documentation are less likely than native-born Americans to be arrested for violent, drug and property crimes, the Associated Press reports.

Donald Trump is speaking at a rally in Warren, Michigan this afternoon.

He’s focusing his attacks on Kamala Harris and immigration this afternoon as she prepares to visit the US-Mexico border in Arizona.

“She doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing,” Trump said. “She should resign in disgrace for what she’s done to our country, not run for president.”

Donald Trump boasted of a “very good relationship” with both Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin on Friday as he hosted the Ukranian leader for a meeting at his New York City skyscraper.

The former president also repeated a bizarre boast that he could, if re-elected in November, negotiate an end to the nearly three-year Russian war against Ukraine.

Lauren Boebert accused a journalist of “bias” and being “partisan” for stating climate change and warming temperatures will impact the water supply in her home state.

The Colorado Republican butted heads with a journalist from Colorado Public Radio, saying she was “extremely disappointed in the bias” of the interview, which covered inflation, immigration and climate change.

Retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and Trump impeachment witness Alexander Vindman mocked the former president on Thursday for what he saw as the Republican’s limited historical knowledge, after Trump seemed to describe just learning about WWII history during a recent campaign stop.

At a rally in Savannah, Georgia, on Tuesday, the former president took aim at Joe Biden’s vow the U.S. will continue supporting Ukraine until it finishes fighting off the invasion from Russia.

“Biden says, ‘We will not leave until we win,’” Trump said. “What happens if they win? That’s what they do, is they fight wars. As somebody told me the other day, they beat Hitler, they beat Napoleon. That’s what they do. They fight. And it’s not pleasant.”