The Kamala Harris campaign denied that it had reached an agreement for the current vice president to debate former president Donald Trump on September 10.

Trump said in a social media post on Tuesday that the terms for the debate to be hosted by ABC News were settled. The Harris campaign contested the former president’s assertion, referring to remarks made by Trump earlier in which he seemed favorable to some of the Harris team’s terms.

“Both candidates have publicly made clear their willingness to debate with unmuted mics for the duration of the debate to fully allow for substantive exchanges between the candidates – but it appears Donald Trump is letting his handlers overrule him. Sad!” the campaign told Reuters in a statement.

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Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday that both sides had agreed on terms for the ABC debate. The debate rules would be “the same as the last CNN Debate,” including a stipulation that the mic of a candidate would be turned off while the other is speaking, Trump said.

“I have reached an agreement with the Radical Left Democrats for a Debate with Comrade Kamala Harris,” the former president wrote. “It will be Broadcast Live on ABC FAKE NEWS, by far the nastiest and most unfair newscaster in the business, on Tuesday, September 10th, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.”

“The Rules will be the same as the last CNN Debate, which seemed to work out well for everyone except, perhaps, Crooked Joe Biden,” he added. “The Debate will be ‘stand up,’ and Candidates cannot bring notes, or ‘cheat sheets.’ We have also been given assurance by ABC that this will be a ‘fair and equitable’ Debate, and that neither side will be given the questions in advance (No Donna Brazile!).”

Trump had previously remarked that he would prefer mics to be hot at all times during the debate but that the agreement already in place, which his campaign had negotiated when President Joe Biden was the presumed Democratic nominee, stipulated that only the candidate speaking would have a live mic.

“I don’t know. It doesn’t matter to me. I’d rather have it probably on, but the agreement was that it would be the same as it was last time. In that case, it was muted. I didn’t like it the last time, but it worked out fine. Ask Biden how it worked out, it was fine. And I think it should be the same,” Trump told reporters.

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The Harris campaign’s hesitancy to accept the terms of the September 10 debate follows earlier claims from Harris’ campaign that Trump was avoiding taking the stage with Harris. In July, Harris accused Trump of “backpedaling” away from the debate that the Trump campaign had agreed to with Biden’s camp. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said at the time that Democrats could still switch their nominee again after the Democratic establishment and the media had already pressured Biden to drop from the race.

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Justice Department was engaging in “election interference” after special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against the former president. 

Smith’s indictment, which comes after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, accuses Trump of two felony counts of obstructing an official proceeding, one felony count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and one felony count of conspiracy against rights. 

In a post on X, Trump said that the revised indictment amounted to “election interference” because mail-in ballots are about to be cast in North Carolina. 

“It is DOJ policy that the Department of Justice should not take any action that will influence an election within 60 days of that election – but they just have taken such action,” he said. “Voting starts on September 6th, therefore the DOJ has violated its own policy – Election Interference. All of these Comrade Kamala/Biden Hoaxes should be immediately DISMISSED!”

It is DOJ policy that the Department of Justice should not take any action that will influence an election within 60 days of that election – but they just have taken such action. Voting starts on September 6th, therefore the DOJ has violated its own policy – Election…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2024

In an earlier post on Truth Social, Trump said that the revised indictment was “a direct assault on democracy.”

“This is an unprecedented abuse of the Criminal Justice System. The case has to do with ‘Conspiracy to Obstruct the 2020 Presidential Election,’ when they are the ones that did the obstructing of the Election, not me,” he said. “They cheated on the Election, and they go after me for ‘cheating on the Election.’ Interestingly, this comes at the exact same time as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has admitted to concealing massive amounts of information, such as Hunter Biden’s Laptop from Hell, which is a direct acknowledgment that the 2020 Presidential Election was MANIPULATED and RIGGED by the DOJ. What they are doing now is the single greatest sabotage of our Democracy in History.”

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Smith’s office said that the indictment had been revised in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States, which said that presidents cannot be prosecuted for exercising core constitutional powers and are entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for official acts.

“The superseding indictment, which was presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case, reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions in Trump v. United States,” the special counsel’s office claimed.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reacted to the news of the revised indictment by saying that the Biden-Harris administration was weaponizing the DOJ.

“Donald Trump continues to be the most persecuted politician in the history of our country. Today, after getting two of his cases thrown out by the courts, Jack Smith is grasping at straws once again,” he said. “Just 70 days before the election, Smith has brought yet another bogus indictment. Americans are sick of this corruption and shameless lawfare. They know this is not about justice, but about politics.”