VANDALIA, OHIO - NOVEMBER 07: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Dayton International Airport on November 7, 2022 in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump is in Ohio campaigning for Republican candidates, including U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance, who faces U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) in tomorrow's general election. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Last week, former President Donald Trump kicked a protester who called him a “dictator” out of his rally before making claims about his mental health, opponents and opinions on presidential immunity.
“He’s a dictator,” a man in the crowd yelled an hour into this campaign event at the Southern New Hampshire University Arena in Manchester.
“Get him out,'” Trump stated while security surrounded the individual and had him removed from the arena.
“Now we know that politics is getting serious,” Trump stated jokingly.
Another man wearing a white Ku Klux Klan outfit was removed from the rally site before he could join the crowd.
He continued to attack Nikki Haley and brought in a group of lawmakers from South Carolina who have endorsed Trump.
Trump mocked Haley for asking if he has the mental fitness to be president after confusing her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“I feel my mind is stronger now than it was 25 years ago,” Trump stated. “Is that possible?”
The former president mentioned that he took and passed another cognitive test in New Hampshire.
The former president brought out South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, the state’s lieutenant governor and many other senior officials like the state’s attorney general, treasurer and House speaker. Joining them were the state’s representatives, Reps. Joe Wilson, William Timmons and Russell Fry.
“You’ve heard this, those great philosophers, the Spice Girls,” McMaster said. “‘Tell us what you want, what you really really want.’ Well, that’s what we’re here. To tell you what we in fact want, ‘what we really really want’ is Donald Trump.”
After this rally, Trump’s campaign adviser, Jason Miller, told reporters that Haley needs to drop out of the race and support the former president. He stated that the polls show she has no chance of winning the nomination.
“There’s nowhere for Nikki Haley,” Miller stated while pointing to the South Carolina officials who once endorsed Trump. “There’s recent polling shows that she is down by 39 points in South Carolina. The state’s senator, Tim Scott, had endorsed Trump.”
Trump also referred to his immunity battle with the Supreme Court. He argued that he should be immune from prosecution on charges that he planned to overturn the 2020 election results since he was president at the time.
“So a president has to be given immunity and this has nothing to do with me,” he stated. “This has to do with every single president. As an example when Biden gets out, I’m that guy has got a list to go after. But you have to give a president immunity.”
“Every time the radical left Democrats, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it a great badge of honor,” he said.
The confrontation with protesters is becoming a hallmark of Trump’s rallies.
On January 21, Trump made a speech at an event in Rochester, New Hampshire, and a heckler’s words were drowned out by boos and the crowd chanting “USA” before he, too, was removed by guards.
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