Trump’s Republican National Convention speech live: Hosted by Hulk Hogan, the former president only mentions Biden twice

For weeks, reports have abounded about President Joe Biden’s cognitive state in the wake of his terrible performance in last month’s CNN presidential debate, with some Democrats going so far as to call for him to drop out of the presidential race.

But not much ink has been written about Donald Trump’s mental state.

Andrew Feinberg Milwaukee reports.

Firefighters honored Comperatore by loading his flag-draped casket onto a fire truck that would transport it from Cabot Methodist Church.

Community members lined the streets waving American flags and holding signs, mourning the loss of a local hero.

A law enforcement official told the outlet that the only recent activity on the gunman’s phone were text messages from his parents, asking about his whereabouts. The text messages from Crooks’ parents began around 1 p.m. and continued through the afternoon, according to the report.

For attorney Ty Cobb, who served as White House counsel to Donald Trump during the former president’s first year in office, the four-day GOP nominating contest held this week was, for the party’s purposes, “well executed.” Republicans have never seemed more united, and their message is clear, Cobb said Friday morning.

“Unfortunately, and obviously, it’s mostly theater,” Cobb said. The Independent“Trump is an empty soul. He represents nothing but pure ambition. He has no principles.”

And they were already preparing the talking points, like Eric Garcia reports.

Would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks appears to have scouted the site of the former president’s campaign rally six days before he went to the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, and opened fire, according to a report.

The FBI provided an update on the shooting investigation to Senate and House lawmakers on Wednesday, revealing new details about the 20-year-old gunman’s actions leading up to the shooting.

Sources told CNN that Crooks’ online search history revealed that he had searched for information about Ethan Crumbley, the school shooter who killed four students at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021. A screenshot of Crumbley’s arrest photo was also found on Crooks’ personal cell phone, the outlet reported.

The Secret Service said it was “appalled” by the “disparaging” and “disgusting” attacks on female officers in response to a spate of sexist comments from people online criticizing the agency’s failure to prevent the shooting at Trump’s rally.

In the week since a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, killing one person and wounding three others, including the former president, some prominent right-wingers have accused the women of the Secret Service of failing to do their jobs.

Ariana Baio has the history

John Bowden presented this report from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.