Trump slams FBI at rally after bureau finally confirms he was shot by bullet: Live updates

Suggestions have ranged from the former president confusing the meaning of the word “asylum” when talking about migrants to simple jokes – though he recently seemed to imply that the famous killer is a real person.

However, when asked directly by The Independent for insight into Trump’s baffling mentions of Dr Lecter and the film Silence of the Lambs, the former president’s campaign offered a somewhat terse explanation.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has been one of JD Vance’s sharpest critics since former President Donald Trump picked the Ohio Republican senator as his vice presidential running mate. And that makes sense, given she was an early supporter of Kamala Harris going back to the vice president’s days as attorney general of California.

But back in Washington, the Massachusetts Democrat has happily worked with Vance, as the pair serve on the Senate Banking Committee and co-authored legislation to claw back executive pay for failed banks.

“It’s good legislation,” Warren told The Independent while she rushed out of the Senate after votes on Thursday. “I’m happy to work with anyone.”

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Warning that America is in the midst of a “fight for our most fundamental freedoms,” Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday challenged a group of education and labor activists to join her against Republican “extremists” as she campaigns to deny Donald Trump a second term in the White House.

During a private meeting at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, then-president Donald Trump reportedly mused aloud about whether people with disabilities would be better off dead instead of causing more expenses for their caregivers.

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Gustaf Kilander has the details.

“Did you see the FBI today apologize?” Trump told the crowd at The Believers’ Summit 2024 at a Turning Point Action event in West Palm Beach, Florida on Friday evening.

“Well, they said it might have been a bullet, but it might have been glass. So really, where did the glass come from? Or it might have been shrapnel, where the shrapnel come from? No. They then said it was a bullet.

“It just never ends with these people. They raid Mar a Lago, they do things so bad, so bad. Our country is so sick. But they apologize. We accept their apology.”

Donald Trump is lashing out against Democrats for pressuring Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, comparing it to a “coup” conducted by “fascists.”

“There was nothing nice about what they were doing,” he said.

Trump also attacked Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, as a “bum” and the “most incompetent, unpopular, and far left vice-president in American history.”