Notices by Steve Herman (w7voa@journa.host), page 6

Republican VP candidate JD Vance tells ABC News mass deportations should start with one million people. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-vance-mass-deportations-start-1-million-defends/story?id=112739447

“Asked if Mr. Trump might have confused the two California politicians because they are both Black, Mr. Brown said, ‘I wouldn’t want to conclude that he can’t tell Black people apart, because I’d hate for him to think that I’m Beyoncé.’ And then he burst out laughing.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/politics/trump-helicopter-crash-willie-brown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

According to the Harris/Walz campaign there are 12,000 people inside the Thomas & Mack arena in Las Vegas for this evening's rally. "In the last hour, local law enforcement made the decision to close the doors to the event due to people becoming ill while waiting outside to go through security in the 109-degree heat. Approximately 4,000 people were in line when the entrances were shut down."

Celine Dion would like to have a word with the Trump/Vance campaign.

Politico - Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said Saturday that some of its internal communications had been hacked.The acknowledgment came after POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump’s operation. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/10/trump-campaign-hack-00173503

Alaska's governor declares a state of emergency after 100+ homes in the state capital Juneau were damaged by a glacial dam outburst. https://www.ktoo.org/2024/08/05/live-updates-as-annual-glacial-outburst-flooding-impacts-juneaus-mendenhall-valley/

Former President Trump's plane was diverted to Billings due to a mechanical issue where he boarded a different private jet to continue his trip to the site of his scheduled Montana rally tonight in Bozeman, reports AP.

Politico - The other Black politician who says he was with Trump in a near-fatal helicopter crash. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/09/trump-plane-crash-california-00173487

Amid the issue with his jet in Montana, Trump took time to call the New York Times and threaten to sue it for its coverage of his meandering news conference the previous day in Mar-a-Lago. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/us/politics/trump-helicopter-landing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B04.66wN.eThoRfzixq4X&smid=url-share

Trump is to appear at a "press conference" this hour at Mar-a-Lago. (It's only a press or news conference if the speaker takes questions). One of his former White House press secretaries, Stephanie Grisham, says Trump hastily scheduled the event because "he's panicking. I’ve seen this play many times. He thinks his team is failing him & no one can speak better/“save” his campaign/defend him but him. He hates the coverage Harris is getting & thinks only he can fix it."

Ipsos - A new poll of Americans living in the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada finds Vice President Harris and former President Trump are in a statistical dead heat for the presidency. https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/ipsos-2024-us-swing-state-election-survey-august-2024

"Everybody is going to be forced to buy an electric car" if Harris and Walz win November's election, Trump predicts.

"We've agreed with Fox on a date of September 4th. We've agreed with NBC...on September 10 and we've agreed with CBS on September 25th" for a presidential candidates' debate," says Republican nominee Trump at Mar-a-Lago. "The other side has to agree to the terms."

"I don't know who has ever had a bigger crowd than I have," says Trump. "Nobody's spoken to bigger crowds than me" even Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (who addressed 200,000 people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1968).

"Of course there'll be a peaceful transfer (of power after November's election) and there was last time," replies Trump to a reporter's question.

A suspect in the planned attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna has made a full confession, according to Austrian authorities. "He said he intended to carry out an attack using explosives and knives," according to Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, the head of Austria's domestic intelligence agency. "His aim was to kill himself and a large number of people during the concert, either today or tomorrow." https://www.dw.com/en/taylor-swift-vienna-concerts-canceled-over-terror-threat/a-69882469

Washington Post - Prominent X accounts advocating for VP Kamala Harris have been labeled as spam or restricted in recent weeks, triggering alarm among some Democrats that Elon Musk’s social media platform is tilted in favor of his chosen candidate, former president Donald Trump. https://wapo.st/3LYikXU

“I congratulate President To Lam on his selection as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Central Committee.” - President Biden in a statement https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/08/07/statement-from-president-biden-congratulating-president-to-lam-on-his-selection-as-the-general-secretary-of-vietnam/

Police in Austria say two people, who may have been planning an ISIS-related attack during an upcoming Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, have been arrested. https://orf.at/stories/3365944/

Update: Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour canceled in Austria after the arrest of two men accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Vienna, with several stadium shows of the singer possible targets. https://orf.at/stories/3365959/