Despite calls by his advisers to focus on the issues, former President Donald J.
Trump has made it clear that he intends to keep running his campaign his way.

By Michael C. Bender and Michael Gold
Aug. 24, 2024, 5:06 a.m. ET

Donald J. Trump’s political endurance this year has been attributed in part to
voters’ faded memories about why they denied him a second term four years ago.

The former president is doing his best to remind them.

Despite a carefully scripted week of campaign events aimed at counterprogramming
the Democratic National Convention, Mr. Trump undercut much of his messaging
with a series of off-the-cuff remarks, rants and blunders that threatened to
stoke the kind of Republican anxiety he has spent much of the past month trying
to tamp down.

On Monday in Pennsylvania, he struggled to clarify a previous comment that he
believed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which honors civilians, was “much
better” than the Medal of Honor given to military members. On Tuesday in
Michigan, he claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris had won the Democratic
nomination after a “vicious, violent overthrow of a president" and called
Chicago, which hosted the Democratic convention, “a war zone that’s worse than
Afghanistan.”

He openly rejected advice from allies to limit his personal attacks on Ms.
Harris and other Democrats during a speech on Wednesday in North Carolina. He
called the nation’s first Black vice president “lazy” during a stop in Arizona
on Thursday afternoon and, that night, rambled during a 10-minute phone call
with Fox News. The anchors ultimately cut him off and ended the interview, but
Mr. Trump picked up where he had left off by quickly phoning into Newsmax.

And on Friday, Mr. Trump concluded his week by embracing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
in exchange for his endorsement, a move with an uncertain impact on tilting the
race in his favor.

“One of the ways to win over swing voters is not by personal attacks — by
nature, they don’t love partisan politics, but they’re also not thrilled about
the direction of the country and the performance of the economy,” said Kevin
Madden, a longtime Republican strategist who worked on presidential campaigns in
2004, 2008 and 2012. “And every day Trump isn’t talking about that is a wasted day.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/us/politics/trump-campaign-2024.html

*Please* keep going this way, Orange Fat Fuck!

*HA HA HA HA HA HA HA*

In article <vad6ql$1fu7t$1@dont-email.me>, j_carlson@gmx.com says...
> Despite calls by his advisers to focus on the issues, former President Donald J.
> Trump has made it clear that he intends to keep running his campaign his way.
>

You mean he didn't yell JOY JOY JOY for 4 days? At least he has
policies. Unlike the JOY JOY JOY team.

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Morris Robert Chie Ryan (right) and Kelci Marie Meyers (Ramsey County Jail)
Two people are now facing charges six weeks after a shooting minutes before the start of the new year that left a 10-year-old boy seriously hurt in St. Paul.

Charging documents filed Thursday state that 26-year-old Morris Robert Chie Ryan and 28-year-old Kelci Marie Meyers are each charged with attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and drive-by shooting.

RELATED: St. Paul records 1st homicide of year; boy critically injured in separate shooting

St. Paul police said officers were called to a home along Sherburne Avenue near North Avon Street at around 11:56 p.m. There, they found a 10-year-old boy who’d been shot in the stomach. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition, and police said the shots were fired from outside the home but were believed to have been targeted.

According to the charging documents, the gunshot punctured the boy’s bladder, small intestine, rectum and bowel, leaving him with possibly life-threatening injuries. However, he did survive.

Criminal complaints state that the boy’s mother was in the kitchen, making a video to celebrate the new year while her son was playing with Legos when the shots were fired through a kitchen window. The woman added that she heard a man in the alley say, “F*** y’all, m*****f******.”

Officers found seven spent 9 mm casings in the alley behind the home and 10 bullet holes in the window of the home. In reviewing surveillance video, they saw a dark-colored SUV circle the alley twice before the shooting, then pause for about 13 seconds before driving off at the time of the shooting. 14 gunshots were also audible on the video.

Investigators were able to determine that the SUV was registered to Ryan and saw that it had stopped at a nearby Speedway right after the shooting. Ryan and Meyers were seen getting out of the vehicle, and Meyers’ EBT card was used inside to buy drinks, according to court documents.

RELATED: Neighbors heard multiple gunshots when 10-year-old was shot New Year’s Eve

Officers later got a search warrant for the SUV and Meyers’ address and found clothing that matched what they were seen wearing right at the Speedway right after the shooting. Additionally, seven total guns were found in the home, two of which were 9 mm.

As for motive, the boy’s mother said she thought it was an old neighbor who she described as a “nuisance,” adding that he moved out but continued to return to cause trouble and threaten them.

While Ryan didn’t talk to investigators, Meyers said the neighbor described by the boy’s mother was her ex’s cousin, adding that he didn’t get along with the boy’s family. However, she claimed she hadn’t talked to the man since he moved out of the home and was taking Ryan’s mother to the airport on New Year’s Eve, the complaint states. Investigators then showed her the pictures of her at the Speedway right after the shooting and pressed her about it but she only replied that she “didn’t know what to say.”

Ryan and Meyers are each scheduled to make their first court appearance on Friday morning. They face up to 20 years in prison for attempted murder, 20 years for assault and 10 years for the drive-by shooting charge.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/2-charged-with-attempted-murder-assault-for-shooting-that-hurt-10-year-old-on-nye/