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A fired-up Michelle Obama ripped into Donald Trump as “a convicted felon, a known slumlord” and a “predator found liable for sexual abuse” while campaigning for Kamala Harris in Michigan on Saturday.
The former First Lady stumped in Kalamazoo with a speech in which she told crowds she had a “genuine” fear for “our country.”
Obama also railed against those holding the vice president to “a higher standard” than her political opponent.
“We expect her to be intelligent, articulate, have a clear set of policies, never show too much anger … But for Trump? We expect nothing at all.”
She added: “I hope that you’ll forgive me if I’m a little angry that we are indifferent to his erratic behavior, his obvious mental decline, his history as a convicted felon, a known slum lord, a predator found liable for sexual abuse.”
Meanwhile, Trump rallied in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening, telling supporters that people had only turned up to Harris’ Texas rally on Friday to see Beyonce, and that the music megastar did not know who the vice president was.
It comes a day after he told podcaster Joe Rogan that his biggest mistake during his first term in the White House was hiring “disloyal people.”
Michelle Obama slams ‘predator’ Trump as she delivers bleak warning for reproductive health at Harris rally
Michelle Obama slammed Donald Trump as a “felon, slumlord” and a “predator” in a fiery speech in Michigan, where she delivered a stark warning for the future of reproductive rights in the US should the former president return to the White House.
In some of her most potent remarks on the campaign trail thus far, the former First Lady painted a sobering picture of the state of abortion rights and pregnancy care in the years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and revoked a constitutional right to abortion access.
Mike Bedigan27 October 2024 01:20
Trump claims Beyoncé was booed off stage at Harris rally
Donald Trump claimed Beyoncé was booed off stage at the Kamala Harris rally in Texas.
The former US president addressed the superstar’s support for his rival during his rally in Michigan on Saturday (26 October).
Trump said: “Last night my opponent had one of these and they got Beyoncé. You know, Beyoncé.
“So Beyoncé went up and spoke for a couple of minutes and then left. The place went crazy and booed the hell out of everybody. They thought she was going to perform.
The singer joined Harris onstage at a campaign rally in Houston, Texas on Friday (25 October), where she was joined by her Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland.
Lucy Leeson27 October 2024 01:00
Eric Adams urges people to ‘dial down temperature’ ahead of Trump’s MSG rally
Beleagured New York Mayor Eric Adams urged people to “dial down the temperature” ahead of Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Gardens on Sunday, and dismissed suggestions that the former president was a “fascist” and should not be allowed to hold an event at the venue.
“I had those terms hurled at me by some political leaders in the city, using terms like Hitler and fascists,” he told reporters on Saturday.
“I think, as I’ve [said] over and over again… I think we could all dial down the temperature, and I’ve heard people say that the former president should not be able to have a rally in Madison Square Garden. I strongly disagree.
“This is America, this is New York, and I think it’s important that we allow individuals to exercise their right to get their message clear, to New Yorkers, and our job as a city and as a police department is to make sure they can do that in a peaceful way. I think that we must be extremely cautious.
“The heat we turn up today, pre-election, is going to have to be the heat we’re going to have to govern in, and I think we need to show a level of respectable communication, and so when people called me fascist and other terminologies, I didn’t like it, and I don’t think it’s fitting to anyone to state that the former president is equal to being Hitler.”
Adams also emphaisized the effect of such remarks on New York’s large Jewish population in the conext of rising antisemtism across the US.
The mayor is currently facing a slew of federal criminal charges relating to corruption while in office.
Mike Bedigan27 October 2024 00:50
Images appear to show Pennsylvania rally-goers leaving while Trump is still speaking
Mike Bedigan27 October 2024 00:40
VIDEO: Joe Rogan challenges Trump on 2020 Election claims
Mike Bedigan27 October 2024 00:30
Trump says RFK Jr can do ‘whatever’ he wants on health in future Trump administration
Mike Bedigan27 October 2024 00:20
Watch: Trump claims Beyoncé ‘can’t feel arena but I can three times over’
Mike Bedigan27 October 2024 00:10
Trump claims that if re-elected he will ensure all McDonald’s ice cream machines ‘work great again’
Mike Bedigan27 October 2024 00:00
In pictures: Trump rallies in Pennsylvania
Mike Bedigan26 October 2024 23:50
Trump claims Harris rally-goers only came for Beyonce, and that singer didn’t know who VP was
At his own rally in Pennsylvania Donald Trump said that attendees of Kamala Harris’ rally in Houston on Friday had only gone to see Beyonce, and that the music superstar did not know who the vice president was.
“[Harris] had Beyonce because she can’t draw a crowd. See this crowd, this crowd is packed. I could sell it out three times.” he said. “And we don’t have Beyonce who couldn’t fill the arena last night.
“But the people went there because they thought they’re going to hear Beyonce sing, right? Beyonce got out and said, ‘Hello, ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to endorse her. What’s her name? What’s her name? What is her name again? Oh, I’m going to endorse her.’
“So what happened is the crowd came because they thought she was going to sing. Then she turned around, she left, and Kamala started speaking, and it was a disaster.”
Earlier at another rally held in Michigan, Trump claimed that people had “booed” Beyonce as she left the stage.
Mike Bedigan26 October 2024 23:40
