Trump vows to ‘end all sanctuary cities’; Harris says ex-president calling himself ‘father of IVF’ is bizarre – US elections live
"Trump says he will use executive privilege to enact plan; vice-president says Trump to blame for abortion laws that put IVF treatment at risk in US states
Harris calls Trump comments on IVF 'quite bizarre'
Reacting to Donald Trump’s quip earlier today that he was “the father of IVF” and supported keeping the fertility treatment accessible, Kamala Harris said the remark was quite bizarre and flew in the face of the former president’s record on the issue.
“I found it to be quite bizarre”, the vice-president said just before boarding a flight in Detroit bound for Trenton, New Jersey. “He should take responsibility for the fact that one in three women in America lives in a Trump abortion ban state. What he should take responsibility for is that couples who are praying and hoping and working toward growing a family have … been so disappointed and harmed by the fact that IVF treatments have now been put at risk.”
She added:
Let’s not be distracted by his choice of words. The reality is, his actions have been very harmful to women and families in America on this issue.
Harris also demurred when asked if she agreed with Barack Obama’s comments towards Black men encouraging them to vote for her:
Let me first say that I’m very proud to have the support of former president Barack Obama, and I think that the important point that I will make over and over again is I don’t assume to have the vote of any demographic locked down.
Special counsel argues Trump is responsible for January 6 - report
Jack Smith, the special prosecutor leading the team that charged Donald Trump over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, alleged in a new filing that the former president bears responsibility for the violent January 6 attack on the Capitol, NBC News reports.
The statement comes as Smith tries to get his case back on track, after the supreme court earlier this year ruled Trump has immunity for official acts while in office.
Here’s more on the argument from Smith’s team:
In a filing responding to Trump’s attempt to dismiss the case, Smith’s team said it “is incorrect” for Trump’s team to assert that the superseding indictment returned against Trump in August does not show that Trump bears responsibility for the events of Jan. 6.
Trump, Smith’s team said, “willfully caused others” to obstruct the certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory by repeating his false claims of election fraud and giving “false hope” to his supporters who believed that former Vice President Mike Pence might overturn the election, and by “pressuring” Pence and legislators to accept fraudulent certificates as part of the fake electors scheme.
“Those allegations link the defendant’s actions on January 6 directly to his efforts to corruptly obstruct the certification proceeding,” Smith’s team wrote.
“Contrary to the defendant’s claim... that he bears no factual or legal responsibility for the ‘events on January 6,’ the superseding indictment plainly alleges that the defendant willfully caused his supporters to obstruct and attempt to obstruct the proceeding by summoning them to Washington, D.C., and then directing them to march to the Capitol to pressure the Vice President and legislators to reject the legitimate certificates and instead rely on the fraudulent electoral certificates,” Smith’s team wrote.
Trump’s lawyers previously argued the indictment “stretches generally applicable statutes beyond their breaking point based on false claims that President Trump is somehow responsible for events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021” and sought to “assign blame for events President Trump did not control and took action to protect against.”
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