Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his protectionist trade policies and other fiscal proposals, dismissing suggestions that they could drive up the federal debt, antagonize allies and harm the U.

The moderator, John Micklethwait, asked Trump about breaking up Google, a goal pursued by the Biden administration for economic reasons. Trump (after first answering the question with a non sequitur about alleged illegal voting in Virginia) made clear his decision criteria are entirely political:

Former President Donald Trump said "screw it" to the stress he could be feeling about the criminal cases against him as the election draws closer. The Republican nominee went on the "Bussin' with the Boys" podcast and told former NFL players Taylor Lewan and William Compton that he is trying not to think about the end of the election cycle and the pressures he has been facing from assassination attempts to accusations from the Democratic party.

On Pod Save America, the hosts said that Trump's rhetoric has escalated, and he is becoming "more inflammatory."

Former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade is on Capitol Hill for a closed-door deposition by the House Judiciary Committee. Former Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade left Capitol Hill on Tuesday after a marathon four-and-a-half hour grilling by House Judiciary Committee investigators.

Donald Trump has backed out of an interview with CNBC, marking the second time this month the former president has canceled on a mainstream press interview.

Trump is slated to speak around 6 p.m. at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, with supporters arriving hours earlier. The site is less than 70 miles away from the Butler Farm Show grounds, where Trump recently held a comeback rally after surviving an assassination attempt there.

The MSNBC show aired footage of Youngkin repeatedly insisting that the former president’s words were being misunderstood.

Matt Drudge, creator and editor of the massively popular Drudge Report, disappeared from Twitter’s social media site in 2015. But he reemerged on the platform X Tuesday to call attention to Drudgereport.com ’s homepage, which shows a picture of Trump with the headline “AMERICAN PSYCHO.”

Shares of former U.S. President Donald Trump's media company surged 6% on Tuesday to their highest since June in one of the heaviest trading sessions since the Truth Social platform's Wall Street debut in March.

Former President Donald Trump is refusing to say whether he’s spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin since Trump left the White House.