In Wisconsin and Michigan, Donald Trump largely avoided the hush money trial that has mostly sidelined his campaign efforts as he tried to woo voters with a familiar speech in two major swing states.
Donald Trump’s first campaign rallies since the start of his criminal hush money trial in New York barely mentioned the reason for his absence from the campaign trail.
But in lengthy speeches in Waukesha, Wisc., and Freeland, Mich., Wednesday, Trump continued to escalate his rhetoric around what a second term would look like — and the consequences he foresees if he doesn’t win.
Trump echoed comments he made in a TIME Magazine interview that published earlier this week outlining an aggressive take on the presidency, including a push to revive the authority to withhold congressionally appropriated funds and give police further immunity from prosecution to crack down on immigrants and perceived crime hotspots.
Many of his signature proposals and policies mentioned frequently at campaign events were on display: increased oil drilling, a rollback of President Joe Biden’s economic policies including the Inflation Reduction Act and a massive bipartisan infrastructure bill and the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
He also mentioned recent protests roiling college campuses around Israel’s military action in Gaza in response to an Oct.
