Update: Trump makes highly unusual promise of $5,000 for all if Republicans win midterms | First Thing

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Speaking in Dallas, the president raised ethical concerns with an apparent $1tn offer to the electorate. The report also notes that Plus the US citizens who are finding moving to Scotland to be an irresistible lure Good morning. Donald Trump has pledged to pay every adult citizen in the US $5,000 if Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections. The outlandish proposal, which would cost over $1tn, immediately raised ethical concerns. Trump made the promise during a marathon speech at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas in which he assailed Democrats as “radical”, defended his unpopular war in Iran, and urged voters to “pretend that I’m on the ballot”. Trump claimed, without evidence, that his second term had been “the most successful two years, financially and every other way, in the history of the presidency”. Why did the Republicans hold a mid term convention? Republicans are gambling that the GOP’s first midterm convention can salvage their threatened House majority. However, Donald Trump’s dismal approval rating drove many competitive candidates to skip the two-day event entirely. What has Trump stated about the former attorney Michael Cohen? The US president has stated he would consider pardoning Michael Cohen , the former fixer whom he once branded a “rat” for testifying against him. Cohen was Trump’s personal lawyer, but flipped in 2018, and pleaded guilty to federal crimes including facilitating a hush payment to the pornography star Stormy Daniels and lying under oath to Congress. How many people has the US killed in its campaign? Late We

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