Saturday, 16 November 2024

Donald Trump: “I WILL CONTINUE TO DO OUTDOOR RALLIES”

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Donald Trump stated on Truth Social he will continue to do outdoor rallies.

“I WILL CONTINUE TO DO OUTDOOR RALLIES, AND SECRET SERVICE HAS AGREED TO SUBSTANTIALLY STEP UP THEIR OPERATION. THEY ARE VERY CAPABLE OF DOING SO. NO ONE CAN EVER BE ALLOWED TO STOP OR IMPEDE FREE SPEECH OR GATHERING!!!” Trump said Saturday.

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Prior reports stated Trump would heed the Secret Service’s advice and stick to indoor rallies.

Secret Service To Trump Campaign – No Further Outdoor Rallies

"Love Trump, loathe Trump, what nobody can deny is that he’s got balls of steel. I wouldn’t be back doing outdoor rallies after someone shot me and came within a quarter inch of killing me," Piers Morgan commented.

"Former President Trump is vowing to continue doing outdoor rallies even after Secret Service advised him against it. Trump is even going back to Butler County, PA, where he was shot in an assassination attempt. This is TRUE COURAGE in the face of adversity," Kyle Becker said.

Per Axios:

FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed before the House Judiciary Committee this week that the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired multiple times from outside the Pennsylvania rally's security perimeter before a Secret Service sniper shot and killed him.

The FBI confirmed in a statement to Axios Friday that what hit Trump's ear "was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject's rifle."

Kimberly Cheatle, former director of the U.S. Secret Service, announced her resignation following the shooting.

Ronald Rowe, the Secret Service's deputy director, was appointed as the agency's acting director Tuesday.

Trump pulled a doubleheader Saturday, speaking at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville and hosting a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

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Trump said he will return to Butler, Pennsylvania, where he survived an assassination attempt earlier this month.

Donald Trump: “I WILL BE GOING BACK TO BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA”

From The Philadelphia Inquirer:

In his post, Trump said his forthcoming Butler visit will honor Corey Comperatore, the 50-year-old man who was killed at the July 13 rally, as well as the two other men who were wounded in the shooting. No other details were provided.

Comperatore, a firefighter, was fatally shot while shielding his wife and two daughters. Pennsylvania State police identified the two people who were wounded but survived as David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, Pa., and James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, Pa.

Trump’s return “will play a vital role in the healing of our community and the elevation of our name above the ugliness of July 13,” said Jondavid Longo, the mayor of Slippery Rock, a borough less than 20 miles away from Butler. Despite the violence at the previous rally, Longo said he did not believe Trump’s supporters would be deterred from attending.

“I’ve held the line and said that the people will always meet President Trump if he comes to visit us, and nothing is going to stop us, not violence or the threat of violence, from exercising our First Amendment rights to participate in this political cycle openly and freely,” Longo said.

Trump did not provide a date for a second Butler rally, although he is already expected to return to Pennsylvania next week. On Wednesday, the former president will hold his first rally in the commonwealth since the assassination attempt, this time located indoors at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg.


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