Trump Mocks Hammer Attack On Pelosi’s Husband In Incendiary Speech

Forbes Business Breaking Trump Mocks Hammer Attack On Pelosi’s Husband In Incendiary Speech Antonio Pequeño IV Forbes Staff I cover breaking news. Following Sep 29, 2023, 07:57pm EDT | Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Former President Donald Trump said Friday he’d “bring back law” to California, suggested he’ll use the DOJ to investigate all local prosecutors he feels are political enemies and mocked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who was violently attacked with a hammer in his home last year, in a speech at the California Republican Party Fall Convention. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 29: Former U.

S. President Donald Trump speaks at the California GOP . .

. [+] Fall convention in Anaheim, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) Getty Images Key Facts Trump said he would “stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi“ if reelected president, asking a crowd of supporters, “How’s her husband doing by the way?” and saying a “wall around her house” didn’t do a “ good job ” of protecting her 82-year-old husband from an intruder who fractured his skull with a hammer during a break-in last year—prompting laughter from the crowd.

The former president baselessly called California’s election “rigged” and said he wants to liberate the state from “communist rule,” later saying organized retail thefts in the state could be addressed by shooting looters as they leave stores. The former president also said he’d “direct a completely overhauled” Justice Department to investigate every “radical” district attorney and attorney general for their “racist and reverse enforcement of the law. ” Trump, referring to his recent indictments, mocked President Joe Biden, saying, “Let’s indict the mother******,” suggesting the president uses indictments as a means of destroying the credibility of those he doesn’t like or those polling higher than him, even though his federal charges were brought by an independent prosecutor.

Key Background Trump lost to Biden by more than 5 million votes in the 2020 presidential election in California, a liberal stronghold governed by Democrat Gavin Newsom, who has repeatedly been at odds with the former president. Biden currently leads Trump by more than 20 points in several different presidential election polls in the state, according to FiveThirtyEight . The California GOP convention Trump spoke at runs until Sunday and will host appearances from other presidential candidates such as Vivek Ramaswamy and Florida Gov.

Ron DeSantis, the latter of which said Trump was “missing in action” at the second GOP presidential debate on Wednesday. Trump, who falsely stated at the convention that he spoke to United Auto Workers in Michigan on Wednesday, skipped the debate for a speech at a non-union shop in Detroit. The former president bashed electric vehicles and the Biden Administration’s electric transportation goals, saying they would take away jobs from Michigan’s striking auto workers in two to three years.

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