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Trump Claims He Did a ‘Great Job’ Against Kamala Harris In Debate, Says It Was ‘Unfair’ and ‘Rigged’
Former President Donald Trump asserted on Wednesday that he performed excellently in his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, even though he labeled the event as “unfair” and “rigged.”
At 78, the Republican candidate took direct aim at the ABC moderators, accusing them of repeatedly correcting him and disproving his statements during Tuesday night’s debate in Philadelphia.
“It was three on one,” Trump remarked during his early morning interview on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”
“I thought I did a great job.”
He added, “It was a rigged deal, as I assumed it would be, because when you looked at the fact that they were correcting everything and not correcting with her,” asserting that Harris made “six or seven” false statements that were left unchallenged.
“It was a three-on-one — that’s OK, I’ve had worse odds before, but never so obvious,” Trump said in reference to the moderators.
“They’re dishonest. I think ABC took a big hit last night … They ought to take away their license for the way they did that.”
The debate moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, corrected Trump four times throughout the 90-minute debate. This led many Republicans to criticize the event, accusing the network of bias and lack of fairness.
Despite the contentious nature of the debate, Trump was confident that he came out on top in his first — and possibly only — debate against Harris ahead of the upcoming November election.
“I’ve been told I’m a good debater,” Trump said. “I think it was one of my better debates, maybe my best debate.”
Trump also suggested that Harris is pushing for a second debate “because the loser always asks for a rematch.”
“I won the debate … I don’t know if I want to do another debate,” Trump commented.
Shortly after the debate concluded, the Harris campaign quickly issued a challenge, calling for a second round between the two candidates.
Trump’s comments come despite facing numerous challenges during the debate, where Harris took aim at his economic policies, his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election, and his performance at political rallies.
Harris, in contrast, appeared far more composed than President Biden’s lackluster performance in June, which had sparked concerns among Democrats of a potential Trump victory.
The Democratic nominee managed to avoid any significant mistakes, deftly handling difficult questions about her past record and evolving views on key policy issues.
{Matzav.com}
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IDF Soldier Seriously Hurt in Hezbollah Attack on Northern Kibbutz
A reservist in the Israel Defense Forces was seriously wounded on Wednesday after Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists fired dozens of rockets and anti-tank missiles at a kibbutz in the Upper Galil.
“A reserve soldier serving in the town’s security department was seriously wounded as the result of an anti-missile strike in the Dan area. The soldier was taken to a hospital for medical treatment,” the IDF said.
Chaifa’s Rambam Medical Center said the 39-year-old victim suffered a chest wound from missile shrapnel. “After undergoing a series of tests, the patient is currently being taken to the operating room. His condition is classified as serious,” a hospital spokesperson said in a statement.
According to the IDF, Lebanese terrorists launched some 60 missiles at the Jewish state within one hour on Wednesday afternoon. At least some of the projectiles were launched by the Lebanese branch of Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades “military” wing, the terror organization announced.
In response, IDF artillery and attack drones hit terror targets in Southern Lebanon, the military announced in a post on X.
“A force of the [IDF’s 810th] ‘Mountain Brigade’ identified and attacked an observation post of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in the Shuba area of Southern Lebanon,” the army said.
Meanwhile, Lebanese media reported that an Israeli drone launched an attack on a motorcycle in the Tyre area. One Hezbollah terror operative was killed in the aerial attack, according to the local reports.
Earlier on Tuesday, the IDF said that an Israeli Air Force aircraft killed two Hezbollah terror operatives in Southern Lebanon’s Mis al-Jabal area. In addition, IAF fighter jets struck rocket launchers in the border town of Marwahin and in Rachaya Al Foukhar, the statement confirmed.
At the same time, IDF artillery targeted Hezbollah terror infrastructure in the areas of Naqoura and Aita al-Shaab in Southern Lebanon.
Iran-backed Hezbollah has attacked Israel nearly daily since Oct. 8, firing thousands of rockets, missiles and drones across the border. It has killed more than 40 people and caused widespread damage. Tens of thousands of Israelis remain internally displaced due to the violence.
Two IDF soldiers were lightly wounded when Hezbollah suicide drones landed on Monday near the western Galil border town of Shlomi.
The terror group took responsibility for at least six attacks on Monday, including a drone attack that hit a residential building in Nahariya. Two homes were damaged; no casualties were reported in the incident.
Overnight on Tuesday, IAF jets attacked 30 or so terror targets, including launchers and “military” infrastructure, throughout Southern Lebanon.
Following a situational assessment with the IDF’s General Staff Forum on Monday, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi stressed that the military is “ready for any mission that will be required” by the political echelon.
“The IDF operates strongly in the north and is at a high level of readiness with prepared operational plans,” he said, adding that the Hezbollah attack on the Nahariya high-rise was “a serious incident.”
August was the most intense month in the conflict between the IDF and Hezbollah so far, with more than 1,300 attacks on the Jewish state.
Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general, has warned Yerushalayim against expanding its operations against the terror group.
“War with Hezbollah does not return the displaced; it increases their numbers,” the top terrorist told local media. “If we face a war, we will respond with an even harsher one, and we will not abandon the field.”
(JNS)
ABC’s Muir and Davis Spent Night Fact-Checking Trump
ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis dedicated their Tuesday evening to scrutinizing former President Donald Trump’s statements while essentially giving Vice President Kamala Harris a pass. Throughout the night, Muir and Davis challenged Trump on a range of issues, including abortion, the situation with migrants in Ohio, crime rates, the 2020 election, the January 6th events, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Trump was confronted multiple times by Muir and Davis over his denials of established facts, while Harris’s statements were left largely unchallenged. NPR defended the lack of scrutiny toward Harris, asserting that the reason for the extensive fact-checking was not indicative of bias but rather due to the numerous falsehoods in Trump’s comments.
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Here are some examples where Muir and/or Davis fact-checked Trump or clarified his statements:
Abortion
When questioned about why women should trust him on abortion, Trump gave an extended response.
“They [Democrats] even have, and you can look at the governor of West Virginia, the previous governor of West Virginia, not the current governor, who’s doing an excellent job, but the governor before,” Trump said, confusing West Virginia with former Virginia Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe.
“He said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby. In other words, we’ll execute the baby.
“And her vice presidential pick [Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz], which I think was a horrible pick, by the way, for our country, because he is really out of it. But her vice-presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after birth – it’s execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born, is OK.
“And that’s not OK with me.”
Davis responded: “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.”
However, it was Davis who was mistaken in her challenge on behalf of Harris. In 2019, Senate Democrats blocked the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act, with only three of the 50 Senate Democrats supporting healthcare for babies born after a failed abortion.
Migrants in Springfield, Ohio
Trump claimed that migrants in Springfield were “eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.”
Muir promptly clarified: “I just want to clarify here, you bring up Springfield, Ohio. And ABC News did reach out to the city manager there. He told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured, or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.”
When Trump asserted he had seen reports on TV about migrants eating pets, Muir responded: “I’m not taking this from television. I’m taking it from the city manager.”
Trump countered: “Maybe he said that, and maybe that’s a good thing to say for a city manager, but the people on television are saying the dog was eaten by the people that went there.”
“Again the city manager said there was no evidence,” Muir retorted.
“We’ll find out,” Trump replied with a defiant nod.
Crime
Trump claimed that crime “in this country is through the roof. And we have a new form of crime. It’s called migrant crime. And it’s happening at levels that nobody thought possible.”
Muir answered: “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.”
Trump responded, “Excuse me, the FBI defrauded” Americans.
“They were defrauding statements,” Trump insisted.
2020 Election
When asked if Trump conceded losing the 2020 election, he explained, “I said that sarcastically. You know that. It was said, ‘Oh, we lost by a whisker.’ That was said sarcastically.”
“I did watch all of these pieces of video,” Muir replied. “I didn’t detect the sarcasm.”
Trump reiterated his stance that the election was not conducted fairly, arguing that his legal challenges were dismissed on a technicality of “lack of standing” rather than a lack of evidence.
Jan. 6 and Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Regarding January 6, 2021, Trump claimed Pelosi had rejected his request for 10,000 National Guard troops. Muir responded: “The question was about you as president, not about former Speaker Pelosi.”
Ukraine-Russia War
Muir asked Trump twice if he thought it was in the U.S.’s best interest for Ukraine to prevail in the war. Trump replied: “I think it’s in the U.S. best interest to get this war finished and just get it done; all right? Negotiate a deal, because we have to stop all of these human lives from being destroyed.”
Muir and Davis did not correct Harris when she claimed Trump had referred to “very fine people” on both sides of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, where white supremacists and Neo-Nazis were present. In reality, Trump was addressing people protesting the removal of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue.
The moderators also failed to correct Harris’s erroneous statement that Trump was connected to Project 2025. “Number one, I have nothing to do, as you know, and as she knows better than anyone, I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Trump said. “That’s out there. I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it, purposely. I’m not going to read it.”
Harris was also not corrected for her false claim that no U.S. troops are currently in combat zones, despite their deployment in Iraq and Syria.
Harris’s mischaracterization of Trump’s comments on potential post-election violence and his stance on IVF was also left unchallenged. “Excuse me, I have to respond: Another lie; it’s another lie,” Trump interjected. “I have been a leader on IVF which is fertilization.”
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GROISE EXPERT: Biden on Harris-Trump Debate: ‘Wasn’t Even Close’
President Joe Biden says there was no question who won Tuesday’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
“Wasn’t even close,” he wrote in a post on X.
The 81-year-old ostensibly handed the baton to his vice president after a disastrous performance in a debate against Trump in June called into question his cognitive abilities.
According to a CNN snap poll, 63 percent of those watching the Philadelphia debate thought Harris had come out on top.
“America got to see tonight the leader I’ve been proud to work alongside for three and a half years. Wasn’t even close,” Biden wrote. “VP Harris proved she’s the best choice to lead our nation forward. We’re not going back.”
{Matzav.com}
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UPDATE: SSG Geri Gideon Hanghal Murdered in Truck Ramming Attack
On Wednesday the IDF announced that Staff Sergeant Geri Gideon Hanghal was killed in the truck ramming attack earlier in the day at the Givat Asaf Junction in the Binyamin region.
Hanghal, from Nof HaGalil, was 24 years old. He served in the 90th Battalion (“Nahshon”) of the Kfir Brigade.
The terror attack happened when the driver of a large gas tanker truck smashed into a bus stop. The terrorist was identified as Ail Deif Allah, age 58, a resident of the village of Rafat, southwest of Ramallah.
{Matzav.com}
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Netanyahu Forms Seven-Member Forum to Manage War
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu on Tuesday established a new forum for managing the war effort with seven members including himself. The new forum comes some three months after, following the exit from the unity government of National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz, the premier dissolved the War Cabinet set up after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack
Discussions on the war have continued to take place in a small forum that includes Netanyahu and three other former War Cabinet members.
The ministers participating in the new forum are Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, Shas Party Chairman Aryeh Deri, Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Notably absent is National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. A source told Kan News political reporter Michael Shemesh that Netanyahu snubbed Ben-Gvir in favor of Smotrich because he trusts the Religious Zionism Party head not to leak information from the meetings and he wants to try to convince Smotrich to support an agreement to free the hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The ministers will receive security briefings from Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and other senior members of the security establishment as the war against Hamas in Gaza nears its first anniversary and other fronts opened by Iran’s regional terrorist proxies remain volatile, especially Hezbollah in the north, but also in Judea and Samaria. JNS
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Sky News Reporter Resigns After Comparing Gaza To Holocaust
Sky News presenter Belle Donati has parted ways with the Comcast-owned broadcaster following a controversial comparison made during an interview with Israeli UN ambassador Danny Danon, where she likened Israel’s military actions in Gaza to the Holocaust.
In the interview, Donati examined some of Danon’s public comments and writings regarding the Swords of Iron conflict, asserting that one of his statements advocated for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Danon countered this claim, clarifying that his writings had only referred to voluntary emigration.
Donati then remarked, “The sort of voluntary relocation of many Jewish people during the Holocaust, I imagine.”
Danon immediately condemned her comments on air, calling them “pure antisemitism.” He later took to social media, posting a letter in which he demanded an apology from both Donati and Sky News.
The network quickly issued an apology, delivering an on-air statement: “In an interview earlier today with Israeli politician Danny Danon, a Sky News presenter made a comparison between Mr Danon’s comments on Israel’s war with Hamas and the treatment of Jewish people in the Holocaust.”
They continued: “Sky News recognized the complete inappropriateness of this comparison and the offensive nature of those comments. Sky News would like to apologize unreservedly for the comparison and to Mr Danon personally for making the comparison.”
{Matzav.com}
IDF Announces Death Of Soldier Killed In Ramming Attack Near Beit El
Man Wounded in Shomron Truck-Ramming Attack
A man about 20 years old was critically wounded in a terrorist truck-ramming attack near the Jewish community of Beit El in Samaria on Wednesday morning.
Magen David Adom said that its medics and paramedics were treating the wounded pedestrian on the scene after he was hit by the truck near the Givat Assaf Junction. The vehicle was a gas tanker that smashed into a bus stop, the MDA said, adding that he was found unconscious with multiple systemic injuries.
The Israel Defense Forces said that the terrorist was neutralized on the spot and that soldiers were manning road blocks in the area. He was named as Ail Deif Allah, 58, a resident of the Palestinian village of Rafat, southwest of Ramallah.
The terrorist was evacuated in serious condition to Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu paid a visit to the Jordan Valley on Wednesday amid a sharp rise in terrorism throughout Judea and Samaria, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
On Monday, Israeli security forces arrested three members of a Palestinian terrorist cell that planned to attack Israelis “in the immediate time frame.”
Police arrested one of the suspects after pulling him over on the busy Route 6 highway near the Horeshim interchange.
The interchange is located near several cities in Israel’s densely-populated coastal plain.
After Shin Bet officers questioned the suspects, security forces arrested two more members of the terrorist squad at their homes in Bani Na’im, a Palestinian town some five miles east of Hebron in Judea.
A day earlier, three Israeli security guards at the Allenby Bridge crossing in the Jordan Valley were killed in a terrorist shooting.
The victims were named as Yohanan Shchori, 61, a father of six from Ma’ale Efraim; Yuri Birnbaum, 65, from Moshav Na’ama north of Jericho; and Adrian Marcelo Podsmeser, from the city of Ariel in Samaria.
On Sept. 1, three Israeli police officers were killed in a drive-by shooting near the Tarqumiya checkpoint, some 7.5 miles northwest of Hebron in Judea.
They were identified as Ch. Insp. Arik Ben Eliyahu, 37, from Kiryat Gat, who is survived by his wife and three children; Command Sgt. Maj. Hadas Branch, 53, from Moshav Sde Moshe, who is survived by her husband, three children and granddaughter; and 1st Sgt. Roni Shakuri, 61, from Sderot, who is survived by his wife, daughter and granddaughter.
Shakuri’s other daughter, 1st Sgt. Mor Shakuri, 29, was killed in Sderot on Oct. 7 while fighting Hamas terrorists attempting to take control of the city’s police station. JNS
{Matzav.com Israel}
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Two Soldiers Die in Helicopter Crash in Gaza
Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and seven were wounded, all of them seriously, when an Air Force helicopter crashed in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday night.
The fatalities were named as Sgt. Maj. (res.) Daniel Alloush, 37, from Tel Aviv, and Sgt. Maj. (res.) Tom Ish-Shalom, 38, from Moshav Nes Harim.
Both served in the Israeli Air Force’s elite Unit 669.
According to a preliminary military probe, the UH-60 Black Hawk crashed en route to Rafah to bring a medical team to evacuate a seriously wounded soldier.
“It appears that the crash was not caused by enemy fire, and the cause is still being investigated,” the IDF said.
There have been no changes to IAF activities over the Gaza Strip.
The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the IDF ground incursion in Gaza on Oct. 27 now stands at 340, and at 706 on all fronts since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacre, according to official military data.
Additionally, Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, a member of the Border Police’s Yamam National Counter-Terrorism Unit, was fatally wounded during a hostage-rescue mission in Gaza in June, and civilian defense contractor Liron Yitzhak was mortally wounded in May. JNS
{Matzav.com Israel}
Watch: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris Shake Hands During 9/11 Memorial Service
Hours after meeting in person for the first time, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump crossed paths again as they attended commemoration events this morning marking the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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