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 Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Friday expressed concerns about whether Donald Trump and his allies will instigate political violence after the election if he loses to Kamala Harris.
"Two separate questions," Biden said when asked at a White House press conference whether he had confidence the election would be free, fair and peaceful. "I'm confident it'll be free and fair. I don't know whether it'll be peaceful. The things that Trump has said, and the things that he said last time out, when he didn't like the outcome of the election, were very dangerous."
His comments were a clear allusion to the deadly riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when insurrections sought to stop the certification of the election results.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 ABC/screengrabLiz Cheney has a big fan in one of The View's co-hosts, Alyssa Farah Griffin, whose voice seemed to crack on Friday's show as she lauded the former congresswoman for "doing what's right."
"I watched person after person that I admired and looked up to in politics not speak out and just go along to get along—except for one woman, Liz Cheney," the former Trump White House communications official turned View co-host said, voice shaking. She added that Cheney was "a true leader," and "someone who puts their ambition aside, their career, the money they could make, to do what's right."
After first speaking out against Trump and his role in the attack on the capital, Cheney was expelled from Republican leadership and lost re-election in 2022. This week Cheney began campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris and made a scathing speech blasting Trump at one of Harris' rallies Thursday, during which she also joked about his "spray tanning." Trump responded with a predictable online rant in which he called Cheney a "low IQ War Hawk," and also attacked her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has also endorsed H
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 Reuters/Brian SnyderDuring his final weeks in office in 2020, President Donald Trump considered granting clemency to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the internet's best-known drug market, the Silk Road. On Wednesday, the former president upped the ante and said he would personally "SAVE" the dark web impresario, who is serving a life sentence.
"I WILL SAVE ROSS ULBRICHT!" he wrote, in an all-caps post on his financially embattled Truth Social network.
Ulbricht, who used the online handle "Dread Pirate Roberts," was convicted in 2015 on seven counts including selling narcotics and money laundering, as well as running a "continuing criminal enterprise", a charge usually reserved for kingpins like Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover and Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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