President Donald Trump makes a big promise at the RNC Convention in Dallas: every American adult gets $5,000 if Republicans keep Congress in November. But who pays for it?
Plus, Trump’s trip to Dallas hit an unusual snag before he even boarded: an emergency slide deployed on the new Air Force One.
And a pilot repeatedly warned they were going too fast before the deadly Amazon cargo plane crash; now a victim’s widow says what happened was not only foreseeable, but preventable.
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Trump promises Americans $5K checks if GOP wins Congress in November
Trump opened the Republican midterm convention in Dallas by promising Americans $5,000. He said every adult would get what he’s calling a “dividend,” but only if Republicans keep control of both the House and Senate in November.
He didn’t say how the payments would be funded or whether he would ask Congress to authorize them.
But he did put one other condition on the money:
“The only caveat I have is that the dividend that we’re making must be spent in the United States of America,” Trump said. “We don’t want you going to Canada to spend the money. We don’t want you going to China or to Germany. You’ve got to spend the money in the United States of America. In other words, if the Republicans win, if you win, we might not win.”
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Trump also told supporters to vote in November as if he were on the ballot, saying, “We’re running together.”
And one of the night’s more unexpected appearances came from a Democrat.
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman appeared by video to introduce his Republican Senate colleague Dave McCormick.
“Why am I here talking to you today? Because, well, I’m a commonsense Democrat,” Fetterman said. “I’m always going to stand with America. I’m always going to reject the extremes of socialism and that anti-American way of life. Dave McCormick is the kind of senator who gets the job done, and he’s going to fight for Pennsylvania. I’m proud to count him as my friend.”
Vice President JD Vance will speak Thursday night, with Trump set to return to close out the convention.
Air Force One slide suddenly deploys, forcing Trump to wait aboard Marine One during delay
Before Trump could take off from Joint Base Andrews, an emergency slide on the new Air Force One suddenly deployed.
Trump waited about 20 minutes inside Marine One while crews dealt with it.
A person briefed on what happened told Fox News the slide was triggered accidentally. Trump described it as a safety check, saying crews wanted to make sure the slide “works perfectly.”
Then came the follow-up. Reporters asked the president why crews were inspecting the slide and whether there was a security concern with the plane.
“No, they were checking it before, and they just wanted to make sure, so they’ve- I guess they’ve already put it up,” Trump said. “They want to make everything work perfectly.”
When asked if he was sure the plane was safe to fly, the president said it was; otherwise, he “wouldn’t be on it.”
Crews removed the slide, actually hauling it away on the back of a pickup truck, and Trump took off for Dallas on the plane.
The jet is the $400 million Boeing 747 that Qatar donated and recently retrofitted for presidential use. And it’s already had an eventful few months.
Back in July, security concerns in Turkey led to an elaborate plane switch.
Trump boarded the old Air Force One, then was secretly moved off the plane using a catering truck and flew out on a different military jet.
The original Air Force One took off as a decoy.
Trump threatens new Iran strike after the US detected activity at nuclear site
Trump has threatened another strike inside Iran.
During the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Trump said the U.S. has detected new activity at Pickaxe Mountain, an Iranian nuclear site.
“We can read it from space. Can you believe this?” Trump said. “Thousands of miles away and we’re reading somebody’s, we know exactly what’s going on, but we notice there’s a little activity at Pickaxe. I would advise Iran not to get cute because we will have to hit them very hard. We have no choice, right? We have no choice.”
The warning comes as fighting spreads elsewhere in the region. The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said Saudi-backed forces have launched dozens of airstrikes across the country. Saudi Arabia has not confirmed the Houthi claim.
Plus, new information has emerged about Iran’s retaliatory strikes on U.S. assets in Jordan. Sources told CBS News that about eight F-15s sustained light damage but quickly returned to service. One A-10 Thunderbolt, known as the Warthog, reportedly lost a wing.
Those strikes came after U.S. forces destroyed five Iranian oil tankers Tuesday.
Trump also floated a new name for the Strait of Hormuz: the “Trump Strait.”
He again said oil prices will fall once the U.S. wins the war with Iran, a war he said is “taking place right now.”
Widow sues over Amazon plane crash, alleging deadly crash was foreseeable and preventable
The widow of one of the men killed in the Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport has filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging multiple failures led to the crash.
Yaraisi Santiso Morejon’s 53-year-old husband, Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, was driving the cleaning crew van that the plane hit on Sunday. He was one of five people killed.
The lawsuit names several defendants, including Amazon, Amazon Air Cargo and the two pilots of the Boeing 767. It calls the crash “the foreseeable and preventable result of multiple, concurrent failures.”
The suit points to alleged “pilot error” and a “systemic failure” by Amazon and the plane’s operating company. It also cites the age of the 32-year-old aircraft and notes that the NTSB is investigating its braking, thrust reverser and spoiler systems.
A new NTSB report reveals what happened inside the cockpit.
One pilot repeatedly warned the other for nearly two minutes that they were going too fast, both as they approached the runway and after touchdown. A summary of the cockpit voice recording said the other pilot never gave what investigators called a “consistent verbal response” to those warnings.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Clancy lawyer seeks dismissal of case; double jeopardy motion set for Sept. 29
Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial ended with a hung jury last week, and now her lawyer is working to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
Kevin Reddington told CBS News he’ll ask a judge to dismiss the case on double jeopardy grounds, arguing the judge shouldn’t have declared a mistrial.
The jury deliberated for more than seven days before the judge declared a mistrial.
The foreperson told the judge that one juror had acknowledged doubt but refused to apply the reasonable-doubt standard. Reddington said the judge should have questioned the juror further before declaring a mistrial.
“It will be a motion to dismiss based on what’s called double jeopardy grounds, because there’s no … manifest necessity. You have to have manifest necessity to declare a mistrial for obvious reasons — the invested time that the jurors put into it, the court, the staff, the defendant, the prosecution, everybody,” he said.
Reddington will make that argument in court on Sept. 29.
It’s a long shot.
Mistrials generally don’t prevent prosecutors from retrying a case. But if Reddington wins, prosecutors would be barred from retrying Clancy.
Reddington has also asked Trump to get involved. He told ABC News this week that he asked Trump to consider pardoning Clancy, even though a president can’t pardon state crimes.
He said he hopes any message from Trump that works in his favor might influence the Republican district attorney.
Trump was asked about Clancy last week.
“It’s a shame. It was a horrible tragedy. It’s a horrible tragedy,” Trump said. “It’s a, it’s a terrible situation. Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse. But you’ll find out what the price to pay is. There’ll be a price. It’s going to be a mental institution or jail or something.”
Reddington said he hasn’t heard from the White House.
Prosecutors have not yet said whether they’ll retry Clancy.
South Park gets a new name, at least for now: ‘South America’
After nearly 30 years, “South Park” has a new name. Or at least that’s what Trey Parker and Matt Stone would like you to believe.
The creators posted a new look with “Park” crossed out and “America” taking its place. So for now, “South Park” is “South America.”
It’s their answer to Trump’s recent move to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” in the U.S.
Apple and Google have both updated their maps. Parker and Stone made sure to include a thank-you.
They wrote, “Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to South America.”
They even worked their parent company into the joke, thanking Paramount for what they called a “Skydance capitulation.”
When asked how long the new name will last, Parker and Stone insisted they are “100-percent committed to South America.”
Season 29, whatever they’re calling it by then, premieres Sept. 16.
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