The 2024 election

While Trump was speaking onstage at an event, gunshots were heard, and Trump ducked to the ground before being eventually taken offstage by Secret Service agents.

According to The Associated Press, “A local prosecutor says the suspected gunman and at least one attendee are dead,” and in a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.”

ABC News has live coverage, along with CNN, The New York Times, and Reuters.

A group that has previously claimed responsibility for breaching NATO, as well as satellite systems used by Halliburton and Shell, tells CyberScoop they’ve released 2GB of data from the conservative think tank behind “Project 2025” policy proposals for a second Trump administration.

The data includes the “full names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames” of people associating with Heritage, vio said, including users with U.S. government email addresses. “This itself can have an impact to heritage’s (sic) reputation,” they added, “and it’ll especially push away users in positions of power.” 

Here’s a summary that includes tech policy issues and also some of the most unhinged stuff we heard tonight.

Things mentioned:

China, tariffs, semiconductor chips, Charlottesville, the border, “space age materials,” the Green New Deal, environment, election “fraud,” opioids, Twitter(???), having sex with porn stars, Hunter Biden laptop, golf handicaps(??????)

Things not mentioned:

TikTok, Facebook, FISA warrantless surveillance, EVs, intellectual property, broadband policy, artificial intelligence (thank god!!!)

Googled that for you because we’re all thinking the same thing. And yes it has now been slightly over 90 minutes since the start.

It was a yes or no question.

There were a lot of words said, none of which was exactly a yes. Instead, Trump reminded us he still hasn’t really accepted the results of the past election.

On account of, you know, Twitter permanently suspending his account for inciting violence.

“I convinced Samsung to invest billions of dollars in the United States,” Biden adds.

As Gaby noted earlier this year:

The overwhelming majority of fentanyl seized by Customs and Border Protection — more than 90 percent — is smuggled through official border crossings by US citizens, not by migrants making unauthorized border crossings. 

Uh, China, tariffs, not exactly answering the question...

But a lot of them pay into both. Billions, even!

He says he had the best. He tried to roll back more than 100 environmental protections while in office. Is that what he’s bragging about in the debate?

Now we have no jobs, no cash, and no H2O.

They got back answers about immigration, HBCUs, insulin, and clean air and water (which is not the same as climate change).

They should’ve workshopped it, is all I’m saying. Green New Steal, maybe?

(In any case, Congress has not actually passed a Green New Deal.)

Does he mean, like... that it happened? I don’t know. What a time to cut to ads.

Just gonna throw out this old Verge feature about the Portland van snatchings.

“51 intelligence agents said that the laptop was Russia disinformation,” Trump said. “It wasn’t. That came from his son Hunter — it wasn’t Russia disinformation.”

Trump is extremely sore about The Atlantic’s reporting that he said a cemetery for soldiers was full of “suckers” and “losers,” calling it a lie that was printed in “a third-rate magazine.”

Was that a reference to tariffs on goods from China? Was that a commitment to drilling for oil? What on earth was that line about Medicare?

The Verge will not be doing a shot every time someone says “TikTok,” but we’ll be posting our live commentary here.