Donald Trump returned to Pennsylvania on Wednesday for a campaign rally just hours after getting slammed over his comments at a conference for Black journalists in which he questioned the racial identity of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
While Trump bashed the interviewer at the Chicago National Association for Black Journalists conference Rachel Scott for a “hostile” line of questioning, in Harrisburg on Wednesday afternoon he was back in front of an adoring crowd, which greeted him by chanting, “We love Trump.”
Trump started his remarks by bragging about the size of the crowd, saying, “We didn’t need anybody to get the people here, we didn't need a star,” in an obvious dig at Harris, whose campaign event Tuesday was introduced by rappers Megan Thee Stallion and Quavo.
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Trump then pivoted to the assassination attempt he survived in Butler, noting that the people injured in the shooting are “doing really well now.”
“They are going to be fine – not going to be perfect maybe, but who is? Who is as we get older,” Trump said.
Trump soon pivoted back to his routine spiel, boasting about how “the country is doing badly,” and calling Harris a “puppet candidate,” installed by Democratic “power brokers.”
“Unlike her I cannot be bought and I cannot be controlled,” Trump said, to applause. “I could have had such a nice easy life. I could be at a nice place right now relaxing watching the waves breaking, but I’d rather be right here in Harrisburg with you.”
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