Trump accuses Biden of working with Iran over hack and says Haiti migrants are ‘destroying’ US: Live

Adirty secret about Senator JD Vance that probably would not endear him to the MAGA faithful is that on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump’s running mate is fairly friendly to reporters of all stripes.

But on the campaign trail as Trump’s top surrogate, the Ohio senator does something different. During his rally at Union Station in Raleigh, North Carolina, a crucial swing state, Vance dinged his boss’s opponent Kamala Harris for only doing two sitdown interviews since she became the Democratic nominee for president.

This summer, Iranian hackers sent materials stolen from the Trump campaign to people associated with the Biden campaign as well as media outlets, according to U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

“Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails,” according to a joint statement from the FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), obtained by The Hill.

“There is currently no information indicating those recipients replied,” the agencies added.

Trump said he would visit Springfield, Ohio as he continued to make false claims about the migrants in the city.

“How about in Springfield, Ohio, they had 32,000 – This is a little beautiful town, no crime, no problem – 32,000 illegal immigrants come into the town,” Trump said. “So they almost double their population in a period of a few weeks. Can you believe it? And you know what? They’ve got to get much tougher. I’m going to go there in the next two weeks. I’m going to Springfield and I’m going to Aurora.”

“You may never see me again, but that’s okay,” he added. “‘Whatever happened to Trump? Well, he never got out of Springfield.’”

“So the mayor of Springfield, and I think he’s a very nice person,” Trump continued. “But instead of saying we’re getting them all out, we’re getting them out, he says, very simply, ‘we’re hiring teachers to teach them English.’”

“Could you believe it? ‘We are hiring interpreters.’ So when they go to school and take the place of our children in school, we have an interpreter. Each one will have a private interpreter. What the hell is wrong with our country?” he asked.

The former president said, “we’re getting them out of our country. They came in illegally. They’re destroying our country. We’re getting them out. They’re going to be brought back to the country from which they came.”

The city of Springfield states on its website that “YES, Haitian immigrants are here legally, under the Immigration Parole Program. Once here, immigrants are then eligible to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Haiti is designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security for TPS. Current TPS is granted through February 3, 2026.”

Trump suggested that Kamala Harris would be known as the “invasion president” as he complained about immigration.

“The border is 25 times worse than it was in 2016 now the border is not even believable … I want to be known as your border president,” Trump said.

“And Kamala will be known as your invasion president. Just let them all come in … We got to save our country. Our country is going down,” he claimed.

Trump indicated that he hasn’t read Melania’s new book, saying that he’s “so busy.”

“People love our First Lady. Go out and get a book. She just wrote a book. I hope she said good things about… I don’t know. I didn’t… so busy. She just wrote a book called Melania. Go out and buy it, and if she says bad things about me, I’ll call you all up and I’ll say, don’t buy it,” Trump said.

Trump claimed that parents dropping off their kids at the New York subway have a 75 percent chance of never seeing them again.

“My parents would drop me off at a subway, and I’d go to Union Turnpike, or I’d go to wherever – they had no fear that I was going to be disappearing,” Trump said.

“If you do that today, you have about a 75 percent chance and you’ll never see your child again,” he claimed. “What the hell has happened here?”

“We will renovate the New York subway so that the greatest city in the world finally has again the greatest transit system anywhere in the world,” the former president said. “You have the basics. We have to clean it. We have to take care of it. We have to give it a little love, and we have to get the criminals the hell out of there.”

During a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina on Wednesday, Vance was asked by Politico what would happen to migrants in the country under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, such as many of those in Springfield, during a possible second Trump administration. The Republican vice presidential nominee was also asked how the administration would go about deporting migrants in the country legally.

“The media loves to say that the Haitian migrants hundreds of thousands of them, by the way, 20,000 in Springfield, but hundreds of thousands of them all across the country, they are here legally,” Vance said. “And what they mean is that Kamala Harris used two separate programs, mass parole and temporary protective status … to wave a wand and to say, ‘We’re not going to deport those people here.’”