Weeks after Donald Trump vowed to be a “protector” of women, he suggested a woman heckling him should get “the hell knocked out of her.”

“This election is your chance to send a message,” the former president said, before turning around to the crowd apparently booing at a heckler. The boos turned to cheers when the heckler was seemingly escorted out of the California arena.

Trump then swung back to the microphone and said: “Back home to mommy. She goes back home to mommy. ‘Was that you darling?’ And then she gets the hell knocked out of her.”

Trump made the comments while speaking on The Hugh Hewitt Show on Monday, claiming that 13,000 migrants who have entered the US are “murderers.”

“How about allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers? Many of them murdered far more than one person,” Trump told the show’s host. “And they’re now happily living in the United States. You know, now a murderer — I believe this: it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. Then you had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here that are criminals.”

Fox News revealed on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to sit for an interview with the network to be broadcast on Wednesday.

The interview will be conducted by chief political anchor Bret Baier and is set to be recorded near Pennsylvania shortly before airing.

Fox News said the vice president is expected to sit for about half an hour of questions.

It will be Harris’s first formal interview with the conservative network.

The 49-year-old Las Vegas resident was pulled over about half a mile from the Coachella Valley campaign event armed with an unregistered shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine.

Mary Trump is accusing her estranged uncle of having a “new owner” because of his increasingly close relationship with tech billionaire Elon Musk.

“Donald Trump has always been for sale,” she wrote in a Substack post this weekend.

“Given this decades-long pattern, it’s not surprising that the world’s richest fascist, South African jumping bean Elon Musk, would also be interested in purchasing a few shares in a man who is willing to sell whatever he can get his hands on — whether it’s steaks or American national security — because he values money more than anything.”

Josh Marcus has more.

While Trump promotes a baseless idea that non-citizens are illegally casting ballots to rig the election against him, voting-eligible citizens are being swept up in Republican-led purges across the country, Alex Woodward reports.

Having questioned his opponent’s mental wellbeing earlier for absolutely no reason other than the strategy worked for him against Joe Biden, here’s Mike Bedigan on the 78-year-old getting mighty shirty when the tables are turned on him.

Here’s our data correspondent Alicija Hagopian with all the latest election polling as the candidates apparently remain deadlocked.

Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander on the Republican nominee’s fury at the forthcoming new biopic in which Sebastian Stan plays his younger self, Succession’s Jeremy Strong his cutthroat mentor Roy Cohn and Maria Bakalova his late first wife Ivana.

Trump says Ali Abbasi’s film, which has struggled to find an American distributor, amounts to election interference.

Oh boy. Trump’s running mate has been sharing his thoughts on the nuclear family once again.

Rachel Sharp reports.