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It is my Great Honor to do so on behalf of the Republican Party, which has done so much to bring our Country back from the Edge of Oblivion,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social.He cited his belief in the Republican party, but also the riots that have swept through France, as his reasons behind the spend. A reminder, Trump has repeated baseless claims that the demonstrations, which have descended into chaos and seen thousands arrested, are the result of mass migration.Key events11h agoSummary11h agoTrump says he will pay settlement money to veterans affected by contaminated water at marine base only if Republicans retain control of Congress14h agoFEMA to states: Prepare to handle your own disasters, Politico reports14h agoLaura Loomer and DOJ squabble over Camp Lejuene16h agoTrump's use of an antisemitic slur for a second time draws belated, indirect criticism from ADL17h agoHere's a recap of the day so far18h agoDonald Trump announces incentive program for people to report fraud, after conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley's allegations19h agoTrump says he will have spent $400m to support Republican candidates in midterms22h agoHouse armed services Democrat accuses Rubio and Trump of 'lying' about not restricting intelligence with Ukraine22h agoZelenskyy says he had 'substantive' and 'constructive' conversation with Marco Rubio, as feud with Trump continues over Russia sanctions1d agoTrump announces relief for farmers impacted by soaring diesel prices, as Iran war continues and midterms loom1d agoTrump continues midterm campaign blitz in North CarolinaSummaryWe\u2019re wrapping up our live coverage of US politics. Here are some of the day\u2019s key developments:\n \n Donald Trump rallied in North Carolina as part of a week-long tour to stump for Republicans ahead of the midterms. He mostly stuck to a familiar script, repeating conspiracy theories about paid protesters, lies about Roy Cooper\u2019s tenure as governor and complimenting men\u2019s bodies.\n \n \n Trump said that there will be \u201cno money\u201d to settle claims related to water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune if Republicans are not victorious in the upcoming midterm elections.\n \n \n Trump loyalist and rightwing influencer Laura Loomer tore into the Department of Justice on Tuesday, saying the agency was belittling veterans, who were exposed to contaminated drinking water at the Marine Corps base decades ago, with \u201clowball\u201d settlement offers.\n \n \n Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, announced new investment to support semi-conductor production in North Carolina, telling Trump supporters at a rally in the state that Sibelco would build silicon manufacturing.\n \n \n Donald Trump said that he will have spent $400m supporting Republican candidates in midterm races by the time election day rolls around on 3 November. The staggering amount will have been spent through his political operation and aligned Super Pac, Maga Inc. Meanwhile, former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg is donating $80m to Democrats ahead of the upcoming elections.\n \nTrump says he will pay settlement money to veterans affected by contaminated water at marine base only if Republicans retain control of CongressDonald Trump said that there will be \u201cno money\u201d to settle claims related to water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune if Republicans are not victorious in the upcoming midterm elections.\u201cIf we win the House and the Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible, and get it off the books and get it finished,\u201d he told supporters during a rally in North Carolina. \u201cIf we don\u2019t win, there\u2019s no money. If we do win, you\u2019re getting it and it\u2019s gonna be finally over with, that nightmare that\u2019s been going on for so many years.\u201dCamp Lejeune was built in the early 1940s, and from the early 1950s to the late 80s, its drinking water was contaminated with industrial solvents. Trump said his administration has so far delivered $1bn in settlements to impacted veterans and their families.His remarks were only the latest instance of the president suggesting he would punish Americans if they fail to vote the way he wants them to. While in Kansas on Monday, the US president also said he will not allow year-round sales of gasoline containing higher volumes of ethanol if the state\u2019s voters elect a Democrat over Republican senator Roger Marshall.During his rally in North Carolina, Donald Trump has mostly stuck to a familiar script, repeating conspiracy theories about paid protesters, lies about Roy Cooper\u2019s tenure as governor and complimenting men\u2019s bodies.Several demonstrators were removed from the event, including one who protested high gas prices. Trump called them \u201closers\u201d and claimed that their parents were likely his supporters and would physically punish them for the disruptions.Security officers escort out a protestor as US President Donald Trump speaks at a midterm campaign rally on 20 October. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty ImagesHe also erroneously suggested crime in North Carolina rose under Roy Cooper, the Democratic Senate candidate, because some 3,500 inmates were released during the pandemic while he was governor. His administration agreed to the release as part of a settlement with civil rights groups.Trump spoke at length about Ohio Senator Jon Husted who he described as a \u201cfootball stud.\u201d\u201cI\u2019m studying his body. I\u2019ve never studied the body of a man before, it\u2019s not my thing,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I looked at his ass and then I looked at his legs and I said, \u2018His ass \u2014 it\u2019s like a pile of muscle.\u2019 Then I looked at his legs and I said, \u2018Man, his feet are big.\u2019\u201dHoward Lutnick, the commerce secretary, briefly came on stage during Trump\u2019s North Carolina rally to announce new investment to support semi-conductor production in the state.\u201cWe\u2019re \u200cannouncing Sibelco is \u200cgoing to build silicon manufacturing. It\u2019s quartz manufacturing. It is basically \u200cthe foundation of semiconductors,\u201d he said \u200bduring the event.He said the \u200binvestment would amount to \u201chundreds \u200bof \u200cmillions \u200bof \u200bdollars\u201d.Donald Trump has taken the stage at a rally in North Carolina as part of a seven-day tour to stump for Republicans ahead of the US midterms.He\u2019s in North Carolina to support Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for US Senate, who is polling behind candidate Roy Cooper, the state\u2019s former Democratic governor.We\u2019ll keep you updated on anything notable from the president\u2019s remarks.Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at Pitt-Greenville Airport in Greenville, North Carolina on 20 October. Photograph: Jonathan Drake/ReutersFEMA to states: Prepare to handle your own disasters, Politico reportsThe Trump administration wants states to shoulder more of the financial responsibility for disasters, Politico reports.\u201cFederal dollars should be building greater capability, not creating greater dependency,\u201d Federal emergency management agency (FEMA) administrator Cameron Hamilton told state officials at an Arkansas conference, in a recording exclusively obtained by the Politico. He said each state should have the \u201cappropriate financial reserves.\u201d\u201cA future that I hope we would shoot for is one where we wouldn\u2019t require as many disasters because the capability of states is so high and so substantial,\u201d Hamilton also said, noting that changes could begin in the next six months.Under Trump\u2019s second administration, FEMA has seen deep cuts in funding and the exodus of over 2,400 personnel. Former employees and emergency response experts have voiced concern over its capability to respond to future natural disasters.Laura Loomer and DOJ squabble over Camp LejueneTrump loyalist and rightwing influencer Laura Loomer tore into the Department of Justice on Tuesday, saying the agency was belittling veterans, who were exposed to contaminated drinking water at a Marine Corps base decades ago, with \u201clowball\u201d settlement offers.\u201cThis is a political disaster waiting to happen. Let\u2019s be clear: Democrats are 100% going to weaponize this against President Trump and try to hurt him with veterans heading into the midterms in two weeks,\u201d Loomer wrote in a X post, blaming associate attorney general Stanley Woodward Jr.In a thinly-veiled rebuff, attorney general Todd Blanche appeared to suggest Loomer\u2019s diatribe was financially-motivated.\u201cYou should be transparent with your followers, and you are dead wrong about Stanley,\u201d he responded on X.\u201cWe love our veterans and we want to get these cases right. Find a different obsession other than going after one of DOJ\u2019s best fighters.\u201dLoomer shot back, saying Trump wanted to fire Woodward, but took pity on him \u201cbecause his lefty wife is divorcing him,\u201d she claimed.Some outlets, including Bloomberg, reported earlier this year that Harmeet Dhillon, an assistant attorney general in the DOJ\u2019s civil rights division, would be promoted to Woodward\u2019s post. She was not.Trump's use of an antisemitic slur for a second time draws belated, indirect criticism from ADLThe Anti-Defamation League, which calls itself the world\u2019s \u201cleading anti-hate organization\u201d, founded in 1913 \u201cto protect the Jewish people\u201d, denounced the use of the term \u201cshylock\u201d as antisemitic on Tuesday, without explaining that the slur had been used one day earlier by Donald Trump in a speech in Kansas.The ADL\u2019s brief social-media post made no mention of Trump at all and offered no explanation as to why the group found it necessary to explain, today, that anyone equating an avaricious person to Shylock, the villainous Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare\u2019s Merchant of Venice, is using an antisemitic trope.\u201cThe term \u2018Shylock\u2019 is rooted in a longstanding antisemitic stereotype,\u201d the ADL posted on X but not its other social media accounts. \u201cRegardless of intent, its use can reinforce harmful tropes about Jews and normalize language that has long been used to target the Jewish community.\u201dCritics who accuse the ADL of using accusations of antisemitism selectively, to attack people who are critical of Israel, suggested that the Jewish-American civil rights group was going easy on Trump because of his support for Israel.Matt Duss, a former foreign police adviser to senator Bernie Sanders, the most prominent Jewish American politician, responded to the ADL\u2019s failure to mention Trump by suggesting its president would have been more direct had someone else used the slur. \u201cIf a Democrat said it Jonathan Greenblatt would be knocking people over to get in front of a camera to condemn them by name, but it was Trump so it\u2019s just a general public service announcement,\u201d Duss wrote.In 2014, after then vice-president Joe Biden described people who take financial advantage of American service members as \u201cshylocks\u201d, the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s national director accepted his apology and called the remarks \u201ca teachable moment\u201d.Trump\u2019s use of the slur, at a rally in Kansas on Monday night, came just one day after he had endorsed Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday, ahead of Israel\u2019s elections.Trump invoked the antisemitic stereotype as part of his defense of the Republican senator, Roger Marshall, a doctor who has been criticized for filing lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills, leading to 18 of them being arrested.The president began by claiming, falsely, that Marshall had been required by law to take legal action over unpaid bills, even one for just $101.Marshall, Trump told supporters at a rally outside Wichita on Monday, \u201cwas given a bum rap because he was mandated by law to request strongly, money owed from patients. You\u2019re not allowed not to do it. You have to, by law, go after those people.\u201d There is, in fact, no such law.Turning to Marshall\u2019s critics, including his Democratic rival, Adam Hamilton, who featured some of Marshall\u2019s patients in a campaign ad, Trump said: \u201cthey made it like, oh, he was some kind of a Shylock-type guy.\u201dDonald Trump used an antisemitic slur during remarks at a campaign rally in Kansas on Monday.\u201cIf he didn\u2019t make these requests, he would be breaking the law,\u201d Trump said again, repeating the falsehood he based his defense on. \u201cHe would have been breaking a very strong criminal law, and he would be subject to criminal arrest and liability,\u201d the president claimed, falsely.Trump\u2019s use of the antisemitic slur came 15 months after he was made aware of its meaning when he used it at a rally in Iowa. Speaking on 3 July 2025, Trump Trump told supporters that eliminating the taxes on inherited family farms would save farmers from \u201cgoing to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks and bad people\u201d.Donald Trump used an antisemitic slur to describe bankers in a 3 July 2025 speech in Iowa.The day after that Iowa rally, the ADL called the president\u2019s use of the term \u201cvery troubling and irresponsible\u201d, but Trump claimed ignorance when he was asked by a reporter if he had intended to use the word \u201cshylocks\u201d to refer to Jews.\u201cNo, I\u2019ve never heard it that way,\u201d Trump replied then. \u201cTo me, a shylock is somebody that\u2019s a, uh, a moneylender at high rates. I\u2019ve never heard it that way. You view it differently than me. I\u2019ve never heard that.\u201dHere's a recap of the day so far\n \n Donald Trump said that he will have spent $400m supporting Republican candidates in midterm races by the time election day rolls around on 3 November. The staggering amount will have been spent through his political operation and aligned Super Pac, Maga Inc. The president will continue his campaign blitz with a rally in Greenville, North Carolina on Tuesday.\n \n \n Beyond Washington, Trump\u2019s special envoys \u2013 Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner \u2013 wrapped up a meeting with Nordic leaders and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Oslo. The Ukrainian president said that the talks covered security guarantees, among others, and he hopes to hear Russia\u2019s response tomorrow. Witkoff is set to head to St Petersburg on Wednesday to relay to the new peace proposals discussed with Ukraine to Moscow.\n \n \n Zelenskyy also said that US intelligence sharing with Ukraine is working again, after sustained disruptions. Earlier, the Ukrainian president said he had a \u201csubstantive conversation\u201d with US secretary of state Marco Rubio.\n \n \n Meanwhile, Rubio told reporters in India today that \u201cthere has not been some deliberate political directive to go out and harm Ukraine\u201d. He called the assertion that people in Ukraine are dying because the US is denying them information \u201cscandalous\u201d and \u201coutrageous\u201d. However, in an interview with CNN, representative Eugene Vindman, the Democratic congressman from Virginia, slammed the secretary of state\u2019s comments. \u201cHe [Rubio] is lying and so is the president when they say that they are not restricting intelligence in violation of the law,\u201d Vindman said.\n \n \n And Trump continued to blame the riots in France on mass migration, without providing any evidence. \u201cIt\u2019s an immigration problem. You have people that poured into France, and they were also unchecked, unvetted, like with Biden when he was doing. We don\u2019t do that,\u201d Trump said. Even though French authorities have not tied the upheaval to immigrants, that hasn\u2019t deterred the president from insisting that similar chaos would be the US\u2019 fate if Democrats win control of Congress in the upcoming midterms.\n \nAlso in the Oval Office today, Mehmet Oz \u2013 the director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that the health department would be deferring $1.2bn more to California.This comes after the Trump administration already paused almost $1bn in Medicaid funding to the Golden state in July.\u201cThey just got the note, and we\u2019re doing that because the growth of personal care services in California,\u201d Oz told reporters on Tuesday. \u201cThat one little area where you\u2019re paying someone to carry groceries upstairs for your mom, which many of you would carry groceries upstairs for your mom for free, I would think. But in California, they\u2019ll pay you a lot of money for it, and it\u2019s actually run by the counties. But California has been growing that program 24% in the last three years.\u201dOnce again, Trump launched into a racist attack against Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and the Somali-American community.This comes after the justice department launched a raid on the Minnesota representative\u2019s Washington DC home. Reports citing sources familar with the probe said the search earlier this month was related to a criminal fraud investigation concerning Omar\u2019s immigration paperwork. Omar\u2019s father filled out that paperwork when she was a child. The raid has been met with widespread condemnation, particularly so close to the midterm elections.However, Trump today doubled down.\u201cI think she\u2019s a sick, a very dishonest person, but who hates our country. And she comes from a country that is essentially not even a country, Somalia. It\u2019s a real shit house,\u201d he said.\u201cSomalians vote for her \u2026 Most of them shouldn\u2019t be here. You know, they have like a 98 % unemployment rate. They don\u2019t work,\u201d the president added, an incredible statistic given the fact that the census doesn\u2019t actually track the unemployment rate for Somali-Americans specifically.Donald Trump was not optimistic about whether peace talks appear to be back on the table ahead of Steve Witkoff\u2019s meeting in St Petersburg, Russia tomorrow (following his summit with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Nordic leaders in Oslo).\u201cRussia is a big machine. They just keep grinding forward, and that\u2019s what they\u2019ve done. They\u2019ve taken a very large piece of land, and you know you can say that Ukraine is doing well or poorly, but the land gets bigger and bigger all the time, week by week,\u201d Trump said, before repeating his insistence for Zelenskyy to cut a deal.\u201cWe have given tremendous amounts to Ukraine. We\u2019ve got nothing back, other than high diesel,\u201d Trump said, without acknowledging that the price of diesel and gasoline jumped at the beginning of the Iran war in February. \u201cWe want Zelenskyy to make a deal. He can make a deal \u2026 In my opinion, it\u2019s just really just going to get worse.\u201dOn France, the president once again said \u2013\u00a0without providing any evidence \u2013\u00a0that the riots are due to mass migration. \u201cIt\u2019s an immigration problem. You have people that poured into France, and they were also unchecked, unvetted, like with Biden when he was doing. We don\u2019t do that,\u201d Trump said.However, the French authorities have not tied the upheaval to immigrants, but that hasn\u2019t deterred the president for insisting that the chaos would be a fate the US is destined for if Democrats win control of Congress in the upcoming midterms.Donald Trump announces incentive program for people to report fraud, after conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley's allegationsIn the Oval Office, Trump announced an incentive program for people to report fraud, in honor of conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley \u2013\u00a0who, you may remember, posted a video last year alleging fraud by daycare centers servicing Minneapolis\u2019s Somali American community.The video, initially posted in December, resulted in a deluge of anti-immigrant and anti-Somali content across social media, including in Truth Social posts by Donald Trump.More than 90 people in Minnesota have been charged since 2022 in a $250m Covid-19 relief fraud scheme involving a non-profit that falsely claimed to provide meals to children, and a federal prosecutor estimated that $9bn or more in federal funds across 14 state programs may have been stolen since 2018.In July, Fahima Egeh Mahamud, the CEO of the daycare center that appeared in Shirley\u2019s video, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the US.Under the administration\u2019s proposed program, people who submit information through that results in a fraud conviction could receive up to $30,000.In the Oval Office today, Trump presented Shirley, 24, with a check for $10,000 for his work.Meanwhile, in Oslo, Trump\u2019s special envoys \u2013\u00a0Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner \u2013\u00a0wrapped up a meeting with Nordic leaders and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.The Ukrainian president said that the talks covered security guarantees, among others, and he hopes to hear Russia\u2019s response tomorrow.Witkoff is set to head to St Petersburg on Wednesday to relay to the new peace proposals discussed with Ukraine to Moscow.Zelenskyy also said that intelligence sharing with Ukraine is working again, after sustained disruptions.Trump says he will have spent $400m to support Republican candidates in midtermsDonald Trump said that he will have spent $400m supporting Republican candidates in midterm races by the time election day rolls around on 3 November.The staggering amount will be spent through his political operation and aligned Super Pac, Maga Inc.\u201cMore than 300 Million Dollars has already been spent on Advertising, Direct and Indirect Voter Contact, Rallies, Rally Arenas, Telerallies, Get Out the Vote Programs, Election Integrity, and more. It is my Great Honor to do so on behalf of the Republican Party, which has done so much to bring our Country back from the Edge of Oblivion,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social.He cited his belief in the Republican party, but also the riots that have swept through France, as his reasons behind the spend. A reminder, Trump has repeated baseless claims that the demonstrations, which have descended into chaos and seen thousands arrested, are the result of mass migration.Rachel LeingangReporting from TopekaKansas has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932 \u2013 does Adam Hamilton have the courage, brain and heart to cause an extraordinary upset?Just two years after Donald Trump won Kansas by 16 points in his fight to regain the White House, Republicans in the state are scrambling to retain their dominance. The battle for one of its two seats in the US Senate is too close to call, setting the stage for a potentially extraordinary upset.Some recent polls even put Democrat Adam Hamilton on course for a historic victory. Kansans have not sent a representative of the party to the US Senate since 1932.On the campaign trail, Hamilton regularly points to one of his state\u2019s most famous residents: Dorothy from Wizard of Oz. Recalling a visit he made to Liberal, Kansas, and its Oz museum, he asks the audience to recall what Dorothy\u2019s companions on her journey need. The lion needed courage, the scarecrow a brain and the tin man a heart.Washington needs more of all three, he says, and he can deliver it. He decided to run for office after seeing the Trump administration act in ways that were \u201cnot good or kind or compassionate or humble\u201d, Hamilton \u2013 in the energetic cadence of the pastor he is \u2013 told a crowd of business leaders in Topeka on Friday. He was waiting for Roger Marshall, the state\u2019s Republican incumbent senator, to stand up for his state and its people.\u201cI would have arguments with Roger Marshall in the shower. He was not in the shower with me,\u201d Hamilton joked. \u201cAnd I would just say, Roger, please stand up for your people. You were not hired to be a spokesperson for the White House. You were hired to fight for your people.\u201dHamilton\u2019s role as senior pastor of the country\u2019s largest United Methodist congregation comes with name recognition and speaking skills. But Marshall\u2019s liabilities as his opponent \u2013 namely, the fact he sued hundreds of his patients for unpaid bills, resulting in the arrests of dozens of them \u2013 have contributed greatly to Hamilton\u2019s prospects of flipping the seat.Electorally, he\u2019s trying to win over independents and Republicans, calling himself an independent-minded Democrat. It would be valuable, he told the business leaders last week, for Kansas to have a Democrat like him and a Republican in Jerry Moran representing them in the US Senate \u2013 working both sides of the aisle.Read the full dispatch here: Mike Bloomberg is donating $80m to Democrats ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.Speaking to the New York Times on Tuesday, Bloomberg\u2019s advisor Howard Wolfson said: \u201cHe believes in participation in our democracy. And obviously the scale of his participation, given his resources and his means, is greater than other people\u2019s financially. But other people are participating in different ways.\u201d\u201cHe is of the view that resources matter in campaigns,\u201d Wolfson said, adding that Bloomberg \u201cexpects a result.\u201dThe outlet reports that the former New York City major, now 84-years old, is focused on securing a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, with at least $50m of his doantion to be spent on House races.In response to Bloomberg\u2019s donation, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said: \u201cMayor Bloomberg played an incredibly instrumental role in the decisive midterm election in 2018. 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