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Convicted felon Donald Trump won't get a vote from a man who was found not guilty in his own criminal case, Kyle Rittenhouse, and the ex-president's allies have gone to war against the young gun.

Rittenhouse announced on social media that he won't be voting for the former president because of his record on guns.

"Unfortunately, Donald Trump had bad advisors making him bad on the Second Amendment and that is my issue," he said. "If you cannot be completely uncompromisable on the Second Amendment, I will not vote for you."

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The young activist then added, "I support my decision and I have no takebacks."

On popular Trump influencer, @Catturd2, showed on social media that he had blocked Rittenhouse Friday.

"BYE forever I can stomach a lot of things - but backstabbing millions who supported you at your lowest point," the account wrote. "Then turning on Trump right after he got shot. Can't stomach it - won't put up with it - forgotten forever."

Former prosecutor Ron Filipkowski shared the image of the MAGA influencer blocking Rittenhouse and wrote, "I hate messy breakups."

Another social media user, @GuidoMcGirkIII, wrote, "F--- you Kyle Rittenhouse. You punk a-- piece of s---!!!! Stay out of wisconsin. We don't want your back peddling punka-- here anymore. F--- you and f--- the cowards that raised you to be this way!"

Donald Trump reportedly refused to go onstage at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention if reporters fact-checked him, but he finally gave in following a lengthy delay.

The former president blamed the delay of more than an hour on audio problems, but NABJ president Ken Lemon told Axios that Trump's team asked organizers if the panel of Black journalists, including ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, and Semafor reporter Kadia Goba, would refrain from correcting his false statements.

"[Trump's team] said, 'Well, can you not fact check? He's not going to take the stage if you fact-check,'" Lemon said.

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Lemon confirmed there had been some audio problems that were "resolved very quickly," but he said Trump's holdout grew so lengthy NABJ leaders were prepared to explain to the audience of nearly 2,000 people that the Republican nominee would not appear, after all.

"I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking," Lemon said. "We couldn't compromise on that."

Trump eventually gave in and took the stage as Lemon was drafting a statement, and he said the ex-president's team asked NABJ not to post the fact-checks on social media or allow the moderator to disclose there would be fact checking.

"Our whole team stood our ground," Lemon said.

The New York Times previously reported that Trump's team made a last-minute demand about live fact-checking during the event, which his campaign called "straight up fake news."

Trump immediately struck a hostile tone with the panelists after he eventually took the stage, where he questioned vice president Kamala Harris' racial background and quarreled with the reporters, and his team pulled him from the event after a little more than a half hour of questions.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) was raked over the coals on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday for his "pathetic" spin on President Joe Biden's successful effort to free unjustly arrested Russian prisoners and return them to their families.

On Thursday, while doing a photo-op at the border, Donald Trump's running mate told reporters, “We certainly want these Americans to come back home. It was ridiculous that they were in prison to begin with."

He then added, "But we have to ask ourselves: Why are they coming home? And I think it’s because bad guys all over the world recognize Donald Trump’s about to be back in office, so they’re cleaning house,” he said. “That’s a good thing, and I think it’s a testament to Donald Trump’s strength.”

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That led Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson to launch into a scathing takedown of both Vance and the former president.

"I think that the reaction from both Donald Trump and J.D. Vance yesterday— the only word that comes to mind is just pathetic," Robinson began. "It is just absolutely pathetic and incredible that they couldn't just say, we're happy that they're home. We're happy these Americans who were wrongly detained by Vladimir Putin are home and just leave it at that."

"I don't understand why they felt they had to attack, attack, attack," he admitted. "I mean, I guess that's who Trump is, and then J.D. Vance seems to be trying really, really hard to be kind of a mini-me; giving credit to Donald Trump for something he couldn't have been bothered to do when he was in office."

"I think, in part, it's their frustration," he claimed. "They just can't buy a news-cycle right now. They have been — and that has to be driving Trump crazy. Kamala Harris has dominated the news cycle and he thought he maybe had a little momentum by going crazy and saying offensive things at the NABJ meeting on Wednesday. Boom! Thursday attention is away from him again. Nobody is thinking or talking about Donald Trump."

"So maybe that pathetic reaction was just frustration on the part of Trump and Vance that nobody is really paying much attention to them right now," Robinson suggested.

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People are sharing their stories on social media with the hashtag “WhenITurnedBlack” in response to Donald Trump’s contentious interview at an event for Black journalists Wednesday where he questioned Kamala Harris’ racial identity in an attempt to smear his rival in the race for president.

Trump has caught major backlash after insinuating Harris “made a turn and she became a Black person,” at the National Association for Black Journalists Chicago conference before being pulled from the stage by his own campaign team.

On social media, many mocked Trump by sharing their own stories about when they “turned Black.”

“I turned Black when the Spice Girls came out,” wrote podcaster Akilah Hughes. “Suddenly I *was* Scary Spice in every play date. #WhenITurnedBlack.”

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“I turned Black when I opened a cookie tin and saw barrettes, rollers, and Bobby pins,” wrote @IamRanaTerrell.

“After many hours of practice. I finally memorized Lisa Left Eye Lopez's entire rap break in the TLC hit "Waterfalls" I could see a tear drop from my parents' eyes. It happened,” wrote @LikeAFineWino.

When I realized that the preacher saying “I’m almost finished, I ain’t gone hold y’all all day” meant we had another two hours to go,” wrote @EagleEye1906.

Donald Trump’s incendiary remarks that Kamala Harris “made a turn and she became a Black person,” took over social media Wednesday, but another odd comment he made later in the day at a campaign rally also raised eyebrows — and drew criticism.

During his campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trump relived the moments a would-be assassin’s bullet just nearly missed him while speaking in Butler earlier this month. Trump held a moment of silence for Corey Comperatore, the former fire chief killed during the rally, but not without adding his flavor of commentary.

“But you know? Corey’s wife said, ‘I’d rather have my husband.’ Isn’t that good? I know a lot of wives that would not say that, sorry.” Trump said, garnering laughs from the audience.

The seemingly off-the-cuff remark didn't sit well with critics on the social media app X.

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“He is horrible. But you know what? So are all those MAGATS who laugh with him,” wrote @SebrinaAlfonso.

“The dead guy is a prop and now a punchline. Cruel,” responded @TnxRodgers.

“What a sick cockroach,” wrote @Chiffonelle29.

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Former President Donald Trump is only going to turn up the insanity the more he perceives he's losing his lead in the election, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on MSNBC Wednesday evening.

This comes after Trump held an explosive question-and-answer session with the National Association of Black Journalists, where he caused an uproar by proclaiming that Vice President Kamala Harris only recently decided she was Black.

This, warned Buttigieg, is only the beginning.

"When you look at the state of the race today ... what do you think Trump's going to do next?" asked "Deadline: White House" anchor Nicolle Wallace. "Because he's — when he's desperate, and make no mistake, this, for him, candidacy is about staying out of jail. I mean, he's as desperate to win the presidency as Putin is to have him there, because for him, it's about Ukraine. I mean, what would you sort of warn your party and the pro-democracy coalition to be prepared for from Trump?"

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Buttigieg had a simple response: "I think precisely because it's going so well for Kamala Harris out of the gate, I expect that Trump and his Republican Party will get crazier ... the more she pulls ahead, the more you're going to see I think Trump revert to the only thing he knows how to do when he wants to get attention, which is get more and more outrageous."

For the last several months, Trump has had a small but clear and durable lead in the national contest, with President Joe Biden mired in disapproval over questions about his fitness to run a campaign and serve another term — concerns which came to a head within his own party after a disastrous debate performance in June.

His exit, however, appears to have reset the race, with recent polling showing a close contest and Harris pulling even or ahead in many key battleground states.

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