Trump accuses Biden of working with Iran over hack and says Haiti migrants are ‘destroying’ US: Live
Former president says he will visit Springfield, Ohio after making false claims about city’s migrant population
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Donald Trump spoke at a rally in suburban New York on Wednesday evening where he accused President Joe Biden of working with Iran because of the recent hacking operation against his campaign.
“The FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, they just released a report confirming that Iran actors hacked into the Trump campaign's e-mail accounts, and in turn, sought to give the hacked materials to the Biden-Harris campaign,” Trump said at the rally in Uniondale on Long Island.
Trump also said he would visit Springfield, Ohio as he continued to make false claims about the migrants in the city.
The former president said, “We’re getting them out of our country. They came in illegally. They’re destroying our country ... They’re going to be brought back to the country from which they came.”
Trump began to speak at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island, after 7pm. The former president said early in his rally remarks that Vice President Kamala Harris is a threat to democracy as he tried to turn Democratic attacks back onto his rival.
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In photos: Trump speaks on Long Island
Trump says he’ll visit Springfield, Ohio
Trump said he would visit Springfield, Ohio as he continued to make false claims about the migrants in the city.
“How about in Springfield, Ohio, they had 32,000 – This is a little beautiful town, no crime, no problem – 32,000 illegal immigrants come into the town,” Trump said. “So they almost double their population in a period of a few weeks. Can you believe it? And you know what? They've got to get much tougher. I'm going to go there in the next two weeks. I'm going to Springfield and I'm going to Aurora.”
“You may never see me again, but that's okay,” he added. “‘Whatever happened to Trump? Well, he never got out of Springfield.’”
“So the mayor of Springfield, and I think he's a very nice person,” Trump continued. “But instead of saying we're getting them all out, we're getting them out, he says, very simply, ‘we're hiring teachers to teach them English.’”
“Could you believe it? ‘We are hiring interpreters.’ So when they go to school and take the place of our children in school, we have an interpreter. Each one will have a private interpreter. What the hell is wrong with our country?” he asked.
The former president said, “we're getting them out of our country. They came in illegally. They're destroying our country. We're getting them out. They're going to be brought back to the country from which they came.”
The city of Springfield states on its website that “YES, Haitian immigrants are here legally, under the Immigration Parole Program. Once here, immigrants are then eligible to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Haiti is designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security for TPS. Current TPS is granted through February 3, 2026.”
Trump: Kamala will be ‘invasion president'
Trump suggested that Kamala Harris would be known as the “invasion president” as he complained about immigration.
“The border is 25 times worse than it was in 2016 now the border is not even believable ... I want to be known as your border president,” Trump said.
“And Kamala will be known as your invasion president. Just let them all come in ... We got to save our country. Our country is going down,” he claimed.
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Trump indicated that he hasn’t read Melania’s new book, saying that he’s “so busy.”
“People love our First Lady. Go out and get a book. She just wrote a book. I hope she said good things about... I don't know. I didn't... so busy. She just wrote a book called Melania. Go out and buy it, and if she says bad things about me, I'll call you all up and I'll say, don't buy it,” Trump said.
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Trump claimed that parents dropping off their kids at the New York subway have a 75 percent chance of never seeing them again.
“My parents would drop me off at a subway, and I'd go to Union Turnpike, or I'd go to wherever – they had no fear that I was going to be disappearing,” Trump said.
“If you do that today, you have about a 75 percent chance and you'll never see your child again,” he claimed. “What the hell has happened here?”
“We will renovate the New York subway so that the greatest city in the world finally has again the greatest transit system anywhere in the world,” the former president said. “You have the basics. We have to clean it. We have to take care of it. We have to give it a little love, and we have to get the criminals the hell out of there.”
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