UNEMPLOYMENT RATE STEADY AT 4.1% -- The US economy added just 12,000 jobs in October in part because Hurricane Helene made landfall September 26 and Hurricane Milton hit on October 9, both before the Labor Department’s October reference period for household and establishment surveys. The unemployment rate remained unchanged from September’s 4.1%. [CHART: Bureau of Labor Statistics]
Filters Off – If there seemed to be any limits remaining on what Donald J. Trump might say to win next Tuesday’s presidential election, they were pretty much off in his event with Putin-friendly ex-Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, Thursday in Glendale, Arizona (per NPR’s Morning Edition).
“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her,” Trump said of former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, of Wyoming. “You know, when the guns are trained at her face.
“They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.”
Cheney's response .... "This is how dictators destroy free nations," Liz Cheney said Friday (per USA Today).
Question … Was Trump’s speech motivated more by his isolationist philosophy or for his grievance against the ranking Republican from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, who has been campaigning for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris?
‘Protect women’ … Harris responded Thursday to Trump’s comment Wednesday at a rally near Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he would “protect” women, “whether the women like it or not.”
Harris’ response … “It actually is, I think, very offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their authority, their right to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies,” Harris told reporters in Madison, Wisconsin (per The Washington Post).
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Crux of the Biscuit – It’s the apostrophe. The Associated Press reports that sources say White House officials altered a transcript by non-partisan stenographers of President Biden’s self-inflicted reversal of the Trump/Vance campaign’s self-inflicted “island of garbage” joke from Madison Square Garden last Sunday.
The original Biden quote, as transcribed, read: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters – his—his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
Press official-edited: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s – his—his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
--Compiled and edited by Todd Lassa