Trump mixes somber remembrance with heated rhetoric in his return to Butler, Pa.
Trump set the stage for a bruising final month of the presidential campaign during a return visit to the Pennsylvania venue where a gunman attempted to assassinate him this summer.
Former President Donald Trump set the stage for a bruising final month of the presidential campaign during a return visit to the Pennsylvania venue where a gunman attempted to assassinate him this summer.
The trip was Trump’s latest to the Keystone State, which is shaping up to be the most pivotal in this election cycle. As the rally was ongoing, Trump’s campaign announced two additional Pennsylvania events at which the former president would appear in the coming days.
Speaking before one of his larger rally crowds of the cycle, Trump attacked Democratic leaders for the federal response to Hurricane Helene, baselessly suggested that the party was working to steal the upcoming election from him and repeatedly went after Vice President Kamala Harris for saying in a 2019 ACLU questionnaire that she supported taxpayer funding of gender transition care for immigrants in federal detention facilities.
“Who wants sex change operations for illegal aliens in holding bins? I don’t think so,” Trump said during his roughly 90-minute address. Returning to the subject later, he roped in billionaire mogul Elon Musk, who was in attendance at Trump’s rally, saying, “I don’t think Elon likes that idea. These are not ideas that Elon Musk likes too much.”
Trump featured a parade of wealthy benefactors who spoke at the event, including Musk, hedge fund billionaire John Paulson and real estate investor Steve Witkoff.
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