The case is updated. During a campaign rally at an airport in Pennsylvania, presidential candidate Donald Trump said he should not have left the White House after the election four years ago. – We had the safest border in history in our country on the day I left. I honestly shouldn’t have gone, we did so well, we had such a good time – so now, every single polling place has hundreds of lawyers, Trump said during the election rally, according to several US media. He made a similar statement to some of his staff just days after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, according to a book by The New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman. Trump is also said to have repeated the allegations of electoral fraud several times during the speech. Talked about shooting at journalists According to The New York Times, he also made a joke in which he suggested that he would not mind journalists being shot. The former president gestured on either side of the protective glass, which he now stands behind at outdoor election rallies after the assassination attempt this summer, before pointing at the journalists and saying “we only have fake news here”. – To reach me, someone had to have shot through fake news, and I have nothing against that, Trump said, to much laughter from the audience. The York Times and CNN have reported the events first. The Trump campaign has tried to clean up after the violent rhetoric. Spokesman for the Trump campaign Steven Cheung writes that what was said about the placement of the protective glass has nothing to do with the media being harmed. – It was about threats against him that were spurred on by dangerous rhetoric from the Democrats. In fact, President Trump stated that the media was in danger, in that they were protecting him, and therefore in great danger themselves, and should also have had a protective glass shield. There can be no other interpretation of what was said. He actually looked after their welfare, far more than his own, the statement says. Published 03.11.2024, at 21.03 Updated 03.11.2024, at 21.33
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