Trump vs Harris live: Trump speaks with Dr Phil as Arlington Cemetery blasts his ‘abusive’ campaign staff

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Trump’s interview with Dr Phil comes a day before former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr will sit down with the TV host.

Kennedy dropped out of the race on Friday, and threw his support behind Trump.

Speaking about RFK Jr’s  endorsement, Trump told Dr Phil: “I’m very honored. He’s a smart guy, a different kind of a guy, he loves our country. He has some very good views on a lot of things. I’ve known him for a long time, we’re somewhat friendly actually.

“I think he’s going to be a great asset. Will I have him in the administration? I don’t know. We haven’t discussed it. But he adds a lot to the election.”

Trump attempted to clarify his previous remarks about wanting to be a “dictator for one day” and ensuring people would “not have to vote again” if he were president.

At a conservative event last month, Trump said: “You’ve got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”

But in his interview with Dr Phil, Trump hit back at suggestions that the remarks referred to the ending of democratic elections. “I said to the Christians, we’ve got to win this election,” he said. “We win this election, I’ll straighten everything out in less than four years by a lot.

“Then you don’t have to. It doesn’t matter. In other words, I’m saying you don’t have to vote doesn’t mean we’re not going to have elections. You’re going to have elections, but you have to vote this time because we have to win.”

He added: That’s what I meant, and I said it, and everybody knows I said it that way, and everybody agrees that I said it that way.”

Trump went on to clarify that his comments to Fox News’ host Sean Hannity in December about being “a dictator for one day” were in jest, and were really referring to his desire to get work quickly.

“It was said with a chuckle,” he said. “The audience laughed, I laughed, we all laughed, but they take it, and they cut it… and it says, ‘I want to be a dictator.’

Donald Trump says that, despite the rhetoric of the Harris campaign, that his is “not a threat to democracy at all.”

Speaking to TV show host Dr Phil, the former president suggested that such rhetoric was also responsible for the attempt on his life at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

“They’re saying, I’m a threat to democracy. No, they’re a threat. They’ve weaponized government. They’re a threat. But that turned to be like one of their lines. ‘You know that Trump is a threat?’

“I’m not a threat to democracy at all. They are a threat to democracy. But they would say that that was standard line. Just keep saying it. And you know that can get assassins, or potential assassins going. That’s a terrible thing.”

“It was a standard line for them. Donald Trump, a threat to democracy. I’m just the opposite. I’m the one that fixed our military. I’m the one I did so much. I also took a bullet. But maybe that bullet is because of their rhetoric, you know, it’s really nasty rhetoric in the Democrat convention.

“My name was mentioned, hundreds of times.”

Arlington National Cemetery officials say that Donald Trump’s campaign staff verbally abused and pushed aside a cemetery official who objected to filming and photography at gravesites during a recent visit, NPR reports.

The incident occurred on Monday as the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony, according to the outlet.

A source with knowledge of the incident told NPR the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent US casualties are buried. The source said Arlington officials had made clear that only cemetery staff members are authorized to take photographs or film in the area, known as Section 60.

When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.

The Trump campaign has denied that the incident took place.

Donald Trump said that being president was “probably the most dangerous profession” – including a race car driver.

Asked by Dr Phil whether the attempt on his life had changed him, he replied: “A lot of people ask me, and a lot of people say, like, ‘have you developed any fear of, you know, doing this.’

“Look, being president is a dangerous job. It’s much more dangerous than a race car driver than anything, is probably the most dangerous profession. If you think about it, just go up and down the list.”

Donald Trump began his sit down interview with TV host Dr Phil by discussing the attempt on his life in Pennsylvania, saying that he believed that God was the reason for his survival.

“The only thing I can think is that God loves our country and he thinks we’re going to bring our country back. He wants to bring it back. It’s so bad right now, what’s happening,” he said.

“It has to be God. I mean, how can you say it’s luck? When it’s, you know, 20 million-toone [odds of survival]. Okay, I mean, it’s just not possible that I was in that position. It’s the only position, where that bullet could have missed.”

Recalling the incident at the campaign rally in Butler, Trump said he had “gone down quickly”.

“I thought something’s going on there. It was a real whack to the ear… and I was lucky, I went down quickly… Bullets were coming right over my head when I was down, I heard them. They moved pretty fast. I said, how fast does a bullet go? They said, about 3000 miles an hour.”

The issue has been hotly debated by the Pentagon, congressional legislators, and state governors, turning it into what has been dubbed a “political lightning rod.”

At a campaign stop in Detroit Monday, Trump told members of the National Guard Association that one of his “proudest achievements” in office was the creation of the Space Force.

Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff has taken part in a number of campaign receptions, while Governor Tim Walz will speak to the International Association of Fire Fighters on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Trump and his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, will trek through Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

But, of course, the presidency is only one race being decided in November. And some of the races down-ballot are just as bloody. They also might have a massive impact on the top of the ticket.

Here is a roundup of the most important non-presidential races that could make a huge difference.