Trump touts debate win; NYT urges Biden to drop out: Live

The New York Times editorial board is among those urging President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential contest due to his dismal performance in the debate against Donald Trump. Biden is currently the target of growing criticism and requests for his withdrawal.

The editorial board stated on Friday that dealing honestly with the American people is the best way for Democrats to defeat a candidate who has made false statements about himself. They should accept that Joe Biden cannot win the race and establish a procedure to choose a more qualified candidate to take his place and defeat Donald Trump in November.

It shows up following the president's intense speech at a North Carolina campaign rally, where he declared he could handle the situation despite acknowledging his advanced age and physical limitations and stressing that the stakes were too high.

Meanwhile, Trump is capitalizing on the opportunity to flaunt his better-perceived performance during the debate by bragging on Truth Social. The former president claimed reporters praised him for having the “greatest debate performance”

Trump repeated lies and falsehoods throughout, often failing to answer questions. He declined to directly answer if he would accept November’s results.

I was at the Trump-Biden presidential debate and it became very clear what had gone wrong
16:00 , Andrew Feinberg

Voices: Behind the scenes at the first debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the buzzy atmosphere of the spin room descended into horror-struck silence within the first few minutes of the president opening his mouth. While Trump told bombastic lies in front of us, Biden struggled to recall what were obviously canned responses.

At one point, a former prominent TV commentator got up from their seat and start pacing back and forth, worriedly. Biden aides and surrogates, who had been in constant communication with each of us throughout the day, fell silent, one by one.

Philadelphia inquirer calls on Trump to drop out of presidential race
15:00 , Ariana Baio

The editorial board of The Philadelphia Inquirer has called on Donald Trump to drop out of the 2024 presidential race – one day after The New York Times called on President Joe Biden to drop out.

“President Joe Biden’s debate performance was a disaster. His disjointed responses and dazed look sparked calls for him to drop out of the presidential race,” the editorial board wrote.

“But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office.”

The op-ed warned that four more years of Trump would be “more lies, grievance, narcissism, and hate.”
Watch: Trump claims ‘big victory’ over Biden one day after presidential debate
14:00 , Ariana Baio
Biden tries to reassure donors after poor debate performance
13:00 , Ariana Baio

President Joe Biden sought to reassure donors that he is capable of winning the 2024 presidential election and holding office over the weekend after his poor performance in the first debate sent fears through the Democratic Party.

“I didn’t have a great night but neither did Trump,” Biden said on Saturday while meeting with supporters in New York.

“Donald Trump is a genuine threat,” Biden said. “[He] will destroy democracy. I will defend it.”

“I promise you we’re gonna win this election,” Biden said.
Kremlin refuses to comment after Trump claims he would settle war
11:00 , Alexander Butler, Joe Middleton

The Kremlin has refused to comment on Donald Trump’s claim he would “settle the war” in Ukraine if he was re-elected in November.

Trump made the claim during Thursday’s US presidential debate, where he and President Joe Biden competed to appear tougher on foreign policy.

“As far as Russia and Ukraine, if we had a real president, a president that knew – that was respected by Putin, he would have never – he would have never invaded Ukraine,” he said.

Biden called Putin a “war criminal” and warned that if Russia is allowed to succeed, the Russian president would not stop at Kyiv.

“He wants all of Ukraine. That’s what he wants,” Biden said. “He’s killed thousands and thousands of people,” the president added.

Putin was repeatedly referenced by both US presidential candidates during Thursday’s election debate as they vied to show who was tougher on foreign policy. “Go ahead, let Putin go in and control Ukraine, and then move on to Poland and other places. See what happens then. He has no idea what the hell he’s talking about,” Biden said of Trump.
Watch: Kamala Harris says Donald Trump ‘lied over and over and over again’ in first debate
10:00 , Ariana Baio
Black Americans share workplace photos after Trump’s ‘Black jobs’ line
08:00 , Ariana Baio

Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that migrants threaten the availability of “Black jobs” during the first presidential debate has Black people, including members of Congress, asking: what is a Black job?

“They’re taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs. And you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history,” Trump said on Thursday night.

Ariana Baio reports:

Americas | The Independent
Who could replace Joe Biden?
04:00 , John Bowden

Thursday’s debate in Atlanta, Georgia, was the president’s shot to bat away concerns about whether he can effectively serve a second term, one that would end well into his 80s.

Instead, battling a cold, Biden appeared raspy and hoarse onstage while appearing to forget words at times and at other points seemingly losing track of his point altogether.

Democratic sources who spoke to The Independent and a wide range of other media outlets after the debate were in panic mode.

Will the Supreme Court’s Jan 6 decision affect Trump?
02:00 , Ariana Baio

The Supreme Court’s decision to narrow how Jan. 6 defendants may be charged with “obstruction of an official proceeding” will likely only not impact Donald Trump’s federal election interference case.

On Friday, the majority of the Supreme Court justices agreed the government needs to establish that a defendant attempted to or “impaired the availability or integrity” of a record, document, object or thing used in an official proceeding to charge someone with obstruction of an official proceeding.

They argued that the criminal charge was intended to be used in white-collar crime cases and, without specificities, could be used broadly just to give prosecutions the ability to seek 20-year maximum sentences.

Trump is unlikely to see significant change in the charges brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith. He previously indicated the former president’s interference with fake electoral vote certificates would still fall under the new interpretation.
Democratic lawmakers are openly urging Biden to skip out on next debate
Sunday 30 June 2024 00:00 , Ariana Baio

Biden officials have said the president has no plans to drop out and that he plans on taking part in the debate set to be hosted by ABC News in the fall.

Gustaf Kilander reports:

Republican congressman trying to remove Biden using the 25th amendment
Saturday 29 June 2024 23:00 , Eric Garcia

A Republican congressman from Texas is proposing legislation that would call on Vice President Kamala Harris to convene President Joe Biden’s cabinet and invoke the 25th amendment of the US Constitution.

Representative Chip Roy of Texas proposed the legislation after Biden’s lackluster debate performance against former president Donald Trump in Atlanta on Thursday.

Under the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution, the vice president and the majority of cabinet officers can declare “that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” and that the vice president may assume the duties of the presidency.

The legislation put forward by Roy specifically claims that Biden has “repeatedly and publicly demonstrated his inability to discharge the powers and duties of the presidency.”

“We’ll be filing it today or early next week, depending on the language being drafted,” Roy told The Independent.

New Jersey threatens to revoke Trump’s golf clubs liquor license after conviction
Saturday 29 June 2024 22:00 , Ariana Baio

New Jersey law prohibits a person convicted of a crime “involving moral turpitude” from having a liquor license. Liquor licenses are required to be renewed every year by July.

Moral turpitude is a legal concept that broadly means deviant, immoral behavior that would be unacceptable by social standards or shock a community.