Donald Trump

Daily Kos -  In a newly released September Civiqs poll
 for Daily Kos, a clear majority of voters said they viewed the 
Republican presidential ticket of Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance as 
“weird.” Most respondents to the poll of 1,041 registered voters did not
 feel the same way about Vice President Kamala Harris and her running 
mate, Gov. Tim Walz.

Overall, 54% of those responding to the poll say they think Trump is weird, while 43% do not. Similarly, 51% of respondents say Vance is weird. By contrast, 42% of respondents think Harris is weird, while a 54% majority feel the vice president is not a weird person. Gov. Walz had similar results, with 41% characterizing the governor as weird and 51% who say he is not.

A majority of Democrats (94%) and independent voters (55%) say Trump is weird, and while most Republicans disagreed, there were 10% of Republicans who were polled who said their party’s nominee is a weird person. Female voters were among the strongest believers in Trump weirdness (59% to 40%) while men were more evenly divided (49% for weird, 48% against). 

12 completely fictional stories Trump has told in the last month

 Guardian -  Donald Trump’s sweeping threats if he wins the presidency again to name a special prosecutor to “go after” Joe Biden and take legal action against other foes would subvert the rule of law in America and take the country towards authoritarianism, former justice department officials and scholars have warned.

Trump’s escalating legal threats have targeted “corrupt election officials” lawyers, donors and others he falsely deems out to steal November’s presidential election, and have popped up variously on his Truth Social platform, at campaign events and at an elite police group he addressed this month in North Carolina. Trump’s menacing pledges to essentially weaponize the justice department against opponents would mark a sharp break with the Department of Justice’s mission statement, which cites as core values “independence and impartiality”.

Ex-justice officials warn that Trump’s barrage of intimidating verbal assaults are unprecedented, and suggest he would undermine longstanding traditions of justice department independence if he wins the presidency, thus badly undermining the rule of law. “Donald Trump is making many public threats to use the legal system to punish his enemies, which seems to be anyone who opposes him,” said the former deputy attorney general Donald Ayer, who served in the George HW Bush administration. “This conduct is utterly without precedent in campaign history, threatens all of our freedoms, and violates our basic rule of law.”