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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“I'm thrilled to be back in the state I love with thousands of proud, patriotic New Yorkers who are really the heart and soul of America. We know that,” he said.
“And the reason I'm here ... hasn't been done in many decades. It hasn't been done for a long time, but we are going to win New York,” Trump added.
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Andrew Feinberg reports from the campaign trail.
I went on the road with Tim Walz as he tested out new Trump attack lines. They worked
Comfortable in khakis and an open collar, Walz couldn’t be more different from JD Vance, the awkward man in a boxy suit and an overly long tie. Instead of talking about ‘threats to democracy’, Harris’s running-mate made a football analogy about January 6th — and it went down a storm. Andrew Feinberg reports
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