Posted on 07/02/2023 3:59:35 AM PDT by Libloather
If anyone thought Donald Trump's legals woes would eat into his public support in red state America then no one thought to tell the people of Pickens, South Carolina.
Its population of 3,300 was swollen by thousands more who crammed into its main street to see the former president hold his first rally since being being charged with mishandling classified documents.
Supporters behind him waved 'witch hunt' signs as he described how he had been charged under the Espionage Act.
'Me? the espionage act?' he said, describing how it was a an 'act for crimes so heinous' that the death penalty was needed.
'it's one of the most vicious legal theories ever put in a court of law. there's never been anything like this,' he added.
Insiders said the words were not the most important thing. The size of the crowd was what mattered about the day, making it a huge show of support.
And it brought the former president to one of the early state's most pro-Trump counties, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The tiny city of Pickens closed its streets for the former president, packing in supporters who had traveled from North Carolina and Georgia, as well as South Carolina.
They stood on Main Street, between the county courthouse and Biven's hardware store.
They heard Trump describe how as president he had 'absolute right' to declassify documents. And he said he was changing up his language because of the way he had been forced to appear in court earlier this month.
'Now the gloves are off from that standpoint, what they've done is so terrible,' he said.
'So I'll speak differently than I would have three weeks ago...'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Fireworks for Independence Day at Mt. Rushmore have again been denied to the State of South Dakota. No doubt the special events there will be mostly PC crap.
Yep, it happens every time.
But those who stayed lapped it up.
Has the phrase “lapped it up” EVER been used by the MSM to describe the audience at an 0bama speech, Clinton speech or any other Uniparty politician’s speech for that matter? We know the answer to that one.
The Palmetto state gave us the civil war and Lindsey Graham.
Thank you
I think President Trump should expand his rallies to include other pro-conservative events. For example:
Pro-life rallies.
Culinary festival. Food from regional restaurants.
BBQ and chili contest.
No dealer gun shows (Only one of these was ever tried, in AZ, and its venue was a tenth the size it should have been. Fortunately it was snowed out. There was still a several mile long traffic jam on the freeway heading to it.)
It’s a good question whether these should be before or after the Trump rally.
I am thinking that the more rallies that TRUMP holds in small towns, the more message he REALLY gets out.
Too many small towns feel left out by the Washington DC steam roller.
When Trump came to N Nevada, the landlord of one venue cancelled his rental of same——
Trump got invite for appearance at MINDEN airport—and people parked cars in fields & walked to see him. It was massive.
IMO, TRUMP could hold rallies back to back to back in small towns & energize lots of retail....
Hillary also was totally disrespectful of her voters when she refused to even go out & concede to Donald.
PAYBACK is a BITCH-—
PAYBACK is closer than ever
“The gloves are off”...them’s
fightin’ words.
“One of Lindsay’s problems is he feels no shame.”
Lindsay is also demonstrated over many years he is bulletproof with respect to losing his Senate seat in a Republican primary. The voters of South Carolina seem to tolerate deceit and betrayal.
LOL
Heat or rain, the show up!
If you can watch the series The Chosen. There’s an app you can get and watch all episodes etc for free. The best I’ve ever seen.
As far as I know it had been reported that the feds shut it down…Biden.
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I hope he’ll come to Upstate NY.
We’re dying.
Wrong limb.
This was a Trump primary rally.
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