NEW: Former President Trump has recently turned his attention to boosting allies in key races for jobs that will run the 2024 elections. bit.ly/2XEIIA1
Trump heads to Georgia on Saturday to rally for candidates who have embraced his election lies—and could help him try to rig the election in 2024.
And it comes soon after Trump endorsed ‘big lie’ supporters to run elections in key swing states. bit.ly/2XEIIA1
Trump will stump for Jody Hice and Herschel Walker in Georgia this weekend, 2 candidates who back his big lies. bit.ly/2XEIIA1
He also recently backed QAnon-touting Mark Finchem to run Arizona’s elections and a pair of conspiracy theorists in Michigan for key statewide offices. bit.ly/2XEIIA1
“Trump appears to be trying to stack various places in the election process with people who have expressed support for his false statements about the election being stolen,” @rickhasen told VICE News. bit.ly/2XEIIA1
@rickhasen “The more people in power counting the votes who cannot be trusted to fairly count the votes, the greater the danger we’re in.” bit.ly/2XEIIA1
@rickhasen Trump’s own team acknowledges this is about 2024 as much as 2020.
"He recognizes the importance of states in the election process,” a source close to Trump told VICE News. bit.ly/2XEIIA1
@rickhasen “Part of the process of ensuring free & fair elections is at the state level. Secretaries of state, attorneys general, state legislatures, all of those races have important roles. And having people that understand the law & the constitution are important” bit.ly/2XEIIA1
EXCLUSIVE: VICE News obtained hundreds of pages of documents showing the climate strategy of Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch: prepare for the emergency internally while publicly denying it exists. bit.ly/2XJxytX
Murdoch’s News Corp is privately seeking to “take a leadership role on the issue of climate change,” documents obtained by VICE News show, even as it gives massive air time to climate deniers. bit.ly/3zATxAj
While anchors on Fox News trash the science linking extreme weather to climate change, Murdoch’s News Corp is carefully tracking the damage it faces due to wildfires, hurricanes, and other climate dangers. bit.ly/3zATxAj
NEW: We spoke with Black Americans about what they thought after seeing images of Border Patrol agents rounding up Haitian migrants with whips. This is what they had to say. bit.ly/3CCAlnM
“The first feeling is just rage. Outrage, enraged, all of the words that have rage in them.” bit.ly/3CCAlnM
“Those horses in whips were used on us during the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 when we were seeking the right to vote, and now those horses and whips are being used on us as we seek safe passage and asylum.” bit.ly/3CCAlnM
NEW: We 3D-printed a glock to see how far homemade guns have come. trib.al/GcdOa9A
We even ended up taking third place in the 3D-printed pistol category at the “Gun Maker’s Match” in Florida, the first-ever shooting competition exclusively for home-assembled firearms. trib.al/GcdOa9A
3D-printed guns have advanced radically since the first ones were printed in 2013, becoming easier to make and more reliable.
Now, the sudden proliferation of ghost guns is prompting alarm among law enforcement nationwide. trib.al/GcdOa9A
The drug market is absolutely flooded with fentanyl right now. trib.al/H08njh0
Post-lockdown, social drug users are facing a new normal where cocaine, meth, ecstasy, and other social drugs are increasingly tainted by fentanyl, raising the risk of overdoses and death. trib.al/H08njh0
Overdose deaths soared nearly 30 percent from 2019 to more than 93,000 in 2020, according to preliminary CDC data released in July. This sharp increase was driven by fentanyl. trib.al/H08njh0
NEW: The Biden administration is considering reviving Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy for migrants. trib.al/fhrJmyk
Faced with the highest number of migrants crossing the U.S.’ southwestern border in 21 years, senior Biden administration officials are embracing some of Trump’s most hard-line policies and considering whether to adopt others. trib.al/fhrJmyk
In the biggest about-face, senior U.S. officials have privately discussed reviving the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy to manage the number of migrants arriving at the border, according to three sources with knowledge of the discussions. trib.al/fhrJmyk