Trump shuts down reporter with very simple answer for asking why he’s visiting a town with ‘links to white supremacy’… after Kamala said he was in the ‘KKK capital of Michigan’

Donald Trump was asked to comment after the Kamala Harris campaign attacked him for going to a town it called the ‘KKK capital of Michigan.’

Trump responded by asking a reporter which rival politician had been there in 2021 – it was Joe Biden.

The former president also said Harris was probably ‘laughing inside’ at the way Biden said farewell at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night.

The Republican nominee made the remarks during an appearance focused on crime in Howell, Michigan.

Trump shuts down reporter after being asked about white supremacy

After delivering a speech in Howell, Michigan Donald Trump was asked to respond to an attack by Kamala Harris’ campaign about white supremacy.

The Harris campaign had blasted Trump for going to the city where there was a demonstration by white supremacists last month.

Harris’s Michigan communications director had accused the former president of ‘choosing to rally in a town that was historically known as “the KKK capital of Michigan.”‘

Fox News correspondent Aishah Hasnie asked Trump for his comment on the attack by Harris’s campaign.

She said:

Kamala’s campaign attacked you for being in this town because it’s associated with white supremacy.

He responded:

Who was here in 2021?

The reporter answered:

Joe Biden.

Trump laughed and said:

Thank you everyone.

The crowd also laughed, booed and called Hasnie a ‘Democrat; for the question at the event focused on crime.

With cops standing behind him, Trump said: ‘When I return to the White House, we will stop the plunder, rape, slaughter, and destruction of our American Suburbs, Cities, and Towns.”

‘We will shut down deadly Sanctuary Cities.’

‘I will shift massive portions of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement. On Day One, we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in the history of our country.’

He also said Chicago was a ‘warzone’ and compared it to Afghanistan while thousands gathered for the party’s Democratic National Convention.

The narrative that Howell has links to white supremacists was fueled by a dozen white men walking through the streets wearing black and holding signs saying ‘White Lives Matter’ and shouting: ‘We love Hitler, we love Trump’.

The Harris campaign said Trump’s visit to the city of 10,000 people proves he stands with this small group of men.

The racists and white supremacists who marched in Trump’s name last month in Howell have all watched him praise Hitler, defend neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and tell far-right extremists to ‘stand back and stand by,’ said Kamala Harris’ Michigan spokeswoman Alyssa Bradley.

‘Trump’s actions have encouraged them, and Michiganders can expect more of the same when he comes to town.’

Trump: Kamala is a ‘Marxist’ and communist’

At a campaign stop in Michigan, Donald Trump said of his opponent Kamala Harris:

She’s a Marxist communist persn and we’re not ready for a communist president,

About 100 people including uniformed and non-uniformed officers gathered inside an equipment hanger at the sheriff’s office, according to his campaign.

Trump spoke against a backdrop of sheriff’s vehicles, police shields, red and blue lights, and signs that read ‘Michigan is Trump Country’.

He accused Harris of supporting the defunding of the police. Turning to the men gathered behind him in uniform, he asked:

Do you want to be defunded?

Common rehearses at the United Center for the convention

Common took the stage at the United Center in Chicago on Tuesday to rehearse a performance for the Democratic National Convention.

The rapper and actor gave a shoutout to Vice President Kamala Harris and ‘Chi-town at the DNC’

Common rehearsing at the Democratic National Convention

Kamala Harris and “chi-town at the DNC” both getting shoutouts pic.twitter.com/VNTohOKPco

— Sarah Ewall-Wice (@EwallWice) August 20, 2024

Trump links Mexico car plants to ‘why I get shot at’

Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that he was ‘shot at’ because he dares to speak about more car manufacturing plants being built in Mexico.

The former president was focusing on crime during a campaign event in Howell, Michigan.

He then said it was ‘dangerous’ to discuss the car trade being taken away from the U.S. and moved south of the border.

Some of the biggest plants in the world are being built in Mexico. And they are going to sell cars in this country with no tax? Not gonna happen… Always dangerous to say these things. Maybe that’s why I get shot at and other people don’t.

Trump says again that Chicago is a ‘warzone’ worse than Afghanistan

Donald Trump attacked the Democrats for holding their convention in Chicago by comparing it to Afghanistan.

The former president said the Windy City is a ‘warzone’ and pointed to a spate of shootings over the summer, including a bloody July 4 weekend.

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Patti LaBelle to perform on night two of the Democratic National Convention

The ‘Godmother of Soul’ Patti LaBelle will be performing on night two of the Democratic National Convention.

The 80-year-old R&B singer decked out in black gave a preview of her performance with a rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon inside the United Center.

LaBelle recently performed at the White House in June as part of the Juneteenth concert.

Patti LaBelle rehearsing on stage for the Democratic National Convention: pic.twitter.com/sDjseYLtZO

— Sarah Ewall-Wice (@EwallWice) August 20, 2024

Ex-GOP Rep tears into Republican Adam Kinzinger for speaking at DNC

A former House Republican tore into ex-GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger for speaking at the DNC on Tuesday night.

‘I served with Adam Kinzinger in Congress when we voted for the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act requiring medical care for babies surviving abortions. How sad to now see Adam speaking at the DNC where abortions are available on the street in the back of a truck,’ ex-Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., wrote on X.

The DNC’s theme for Night Two is ex-Republicans who support the Democratic ticket. The convention will also hear from former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham, former Pence national security advisor Olivia Troye, John Giles, the mayor of Mesa, Arizona and former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan.

I served with Adam Kinzinger in Congress when we voted for the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act requiring medical care for babies surviving abortions. How sad to now see Adam speaking at the DNC where abortions are available on the street in the back of a truck. pic.twitter.com/jSDCEjX4DG

— Mark Walker (@RepMarkWalker) August 20, 2024

Trump says Kamala was probably ‘laughing inside’ at the way Biden ‘left’

Donald Trump suggested Kamala Harris was ‘laughing inside’ at the way Joe Biden made his swansong speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The 81-year-old’s farewell remarks were pushed to primetime into the dead of night after chaos and a string of delays in Chicago.

Trump said Harris has ‘gotten rid’ of the laugh he has frequently mocked, but suggested the VP would have been reveling

at Biden’s departure.

You see her now with a smile and she’s gotten rid of the laugh over the last couple of days.. haven’t seen her laugh. But I’ll bet inside she was laughing last night when she saw the way Joe Biden left