23 minutes agoTrump “attacks” Biden at the first rally since the assassination
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)Former American President Donald Trump, “was launching a” full attack on Democrat rivals Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at Grand Rapids, Michigan, as he returned to the campaign a week after surviving an assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania. At his first rally since the shocking shooting, and the first with the new candidate, the senator [...]
At his first rally since the shocking shooting, and the first with his new candidate, Ohio Senator J. D Vance, Trump took the stage with a smaller beige bandage.
He referred to the assassination as a terrible “event”.
I shouldn't be here, but let's face it, something very special happened”, Trump said.
Trump said that “owed his life to immigration”, because he had turned his head towards a graph around the border crossings before the bullet went through his head and struck his ear.
Among other things, the former president said his opponents call him “a threat to democracy”, but retaliated that he “took a bullet in democracy”.
Trump also referred to leadership chaos within the Democratic party, which has been consumed with a debate whether Joe Biden should withdraw from the race for president, amid concerns about his age and health.
“They have no idea who their candidate is, and neither do we know”, Trump said referring to Beden as a weak old “la.
In a joke, Trump said he would rather be in Michigan than sit down on a boring beach watching waves” this blow for Biden, who is currently isolated at his home on the beach of Delaware, recovering from COVID.
As Trump campaigned, his team made an official update on his injuries, writes the GuardianHe's following in on Telegrafie.
Roni Jackson, who served as White House doctor during the Trump presidency, said that the bullet fired from Croux's weapon came “godit the upper part of his right ear” and produced a “plag two inches wide”.
Jackson said the wound is recovering, but the former president is still bleeding.
In Michigan's arena, former US president continued to predict an overwhelming election, asking the crowd if they preferred him to compete against Vice President Kamala Harris, or Biden.
But, he said he would be happy to run even against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, for whom he said he did “a terrible job”.
Trump hit his usual themes, attacking electric vehicles, China and trade and promising a massive attempt at deportation.
He also dismissed allegations that a second presidency of Trump would be influenced by the extremist manifesto Project 2025 from the Heritage Conservation Foundation.
The document, he said, was produced by the hard right and very conservative right “and the opposite of radical left”.
“I don't know anything about it and I don't want to know anything about it”, Trump added.
Vance, who received a warm welcome despite the rivalry between his native state, Ohio and Michigan, also climbed on the stage.
Vance criticised both the Republicans and the Democrats in his speech about the previous failure to protect production jobs in Michigan and the US.
The two sides were broken in very deep ways until Trump” came in, he said.
Otherwise, crowds of people waited outside Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to greet the former president.
Unlike open county fairs last week, Trump's last rally was in a closed arena with greater security.
“I think what you're going to see is just a visual increase of additional agents and, of course, a pretty unprecedented level of police officers just because it's the first event after last Saturday”, said former Secret Service agent Jason Russell.
The average latest polls in Michigan put Trump at a 4% advantage over Biden.
