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Shortly before abruptly ending his “Meet the Press” interview, President Donald Trump wrongly pointed to California’s ballot counting pace as evidence of “a rigged election.”

When Trump said the state was still counting ballots days after the June 2 election, host Kristen Welker said, “That’s how they count the votes in California.”

Trump said: “Do you know why they’re doing that? Because they’re cheating on the election.”

Welker asked Trump for his evidence that the election was rigged.

One year ago, Los Angeles was stormed by federal immigration agents as part of President Donald Trump’s pursuit to meet a lofty deportation goal. And the repercussions of that invasion are still felt.

At the time, despite the city’s protections for undocumented immigrants, videos quickly began dispersing online last year of agents across Los Angeles raiding Home Depot parking lots, food carts, and more. Many Angelenos witnessed federal agents ushering men and women into vans on the side of the street.

In response, locals flooded the streets to protest what was happening to immigrant families in their own backyard.

Last Friday, President Trump made time during his trip to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin for an extended sit-down interview with NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker, but was derailed several times by pounding rain on the roof of the facility, heated exchanges, and a premature ending as Trump abruptly walked out because he was tired of dealing with such a “crooked” network.

Welker pressed Trump on the war with Iran, and asked if he broke his promise of no new wars, which grew a bit confrontational.

TRUMP: No. I had to stop a country, very powerful, very dangerous country, from having a nuclear weapon because they’d use it. They’d blow up the world. They’d blow up the Middle East. They’d blow up Israel. They’d come here. They’d blow up Europe. They’re nuts, okay?…It’s America first. I’m doing our country a service.

(….)

WELKER: So, you’re saying you didn’t break your promise. And yet, Mr. President, in your first term, you held to that promise, and it was so fundamental to who you were as a candidate, to a first-term president. What changed? Because you insisted “no new wars.”

TRUMP: Well, well. First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world? I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. Biden gave a lot of it away, but it’s still a relatively small portion compared to what I built.

WELKER: But you said it over and over again, Mr. President.

TRUMP: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Why would I build a military — Now, I didn’t want to use this, but I’m doing you and everybody else a big favor….I know you, you’re a big liberal, a big progressive.

WELKER: No!

TRUMP: But we were —

WELKER: I’m just a journalist.

US President Donald Trump has sparked alarm as a physical therapist makes worrying claims about his health after “mumbling” on live TV. The concerns were raised after an appearance in the Oval Office, where the 79-year-old addressed reporters during an event focused on environmental policy and “clean coal”.

A healthcare professional who specialises in geriatrics has since shared a detailed analysis of the footage, claiming Mr Trump displayed what he described as “stroke-like” symptoms. However, there is no official evidence that the President has suffered a stroke, and the White House has dismissed speculation about his health.

Adam James, a physical therapist who posts online under the name @epistemiccrisis, analysed footage from the June 4 event and shared his views on Instagram.

Scott Pelley, one of the most well-known journalists on the CBS News roster, revealed that the pro-Trump management now leading the network has pressured him to inject bias and lies in news stories. On Tuesday night, Pelley was fired from CBS.

In a statement released via social media, Pelley said the current management of CBS is casting the “legend” of CBS News aside, “apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.”

Pelley said management has “instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.” He added that he was “told to include assertions that are unverified.”