Former US President and Republican candidate, Donald Trumpheld his first open-air rally since his assassination attempt last July with reinforced security on Wednesday, August 21.
The chosen setting was the city of Asheboroin the key state of North Carolina and where Trump was protected by sheets of bulletproof glass.
Despite the extra security measures, at one point during his speech he briefly left the protected space to hug a woman in the audience who had felt unwell.
The event was focused on national security and he took advantage of it to claim that USA was stronger under his command and to underline that wars like that of Ukraine would not have happened if he had been in power: “My attitude kept us out of wars. I stopped wars with phone calls,” he said.
Trump He repeated his complaint that the current president, Joe Bidenand the vice president, Kamala Harris“they are leading us to the precipice of World War III“He, he claimed, will bring peace back to the world.
The former president also stressed the promise to establish a United States Iron Dome like the Israeli one.
“We helped Israel and other countries. (The former president) Ronald Reagan “He wanted it many years ago. He was right, but we didn’t have the right technology back then. Today we have incredible technology. Other countries have it and this country should have it,” he said.
The 78-year-old New York tycoon was wounded in the ear on July 13 after a young man shot him at a rally in Butler (Pennsylvania). The attacker was on the roof of a building outside the premises where the political event was being held and, before being shot down by law enforcement, killed one member of the public and injured two others.
The then director of the US Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatleended up resigning ten days later due to security errors at that meeting and after having stated that the assassination attempt represented the agency’s “biggest operational failure” “in decades.”
Last week it was learned that the Secret Service has approved a plan to increase security at Trump which includes the use of bulletproof glass screens. Typically, such bulletproof sheets are only provided to presidents and vice presidents when deemed necessary for outdoor appearances.
Trump’s appearance on Wednesday, the first to take place under this new device, comes during an intense week of campaigning in which he and his vice presidential candidate, Senator JD Vancethey try to counteract the media spotlight that looms over the Democratic National Convention of Chicagowhich has made official the candidacy of Harris to the White House.
Trump and his team will be visiting four key states these days: Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina y Arizonawhich will focus on crucial issues for conservatives in view of the presidential elections on November 5, such as immigration, security and the economy.
For now Harris leads voting intentions with a percentage of 46.6%, 2.9 points more than Trumpaccording to the average of polls carried out by the web FiveThirtyEight.
“They are going to lie like hell to win the elections because they have no limits,” he said on Wednesday. Trump from the Democratic side. “If we don’t win, we’re going to be in a very big problem as a country. We’re already in it, but I’m going to fix it,” he concluded. EFE
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