Large numbers of people leaving Trump's rally in Louisiana
Large numbers of people leaving Trump's rally in Louisiana
On Wednesday night, as President Trump was speaking at a rally in Monroe, Louisiana, people started walking out.
Large
numbers of people are leaving President Trump's "Keep America Great"
rally early tonight, more so than usual as the President continues
talking at 8:43 p.m. CST.
Trump started about an hour late and many of the people leaving early are children and parents.
The arena was packed to capacity as Trump began the rally, with more outside that couldn't get in.
Trump wrongly takes credit for giving a Louisiana facility its permits
As
he has done on other occasions, President Trump took credit for the
approval of Louisiana's $10 billion Cameron LNG (liquefied natural gas)
facility, which he visited in May.
"They couldn't get their permits for years, I got 'em real fast," Trump said at the rally tonight. "I said, 'Let's go get them that permit.'"
As the facility's website explains, it received its permits under the Obama administration.
Trump argues that he is indeed elite
One
of President Trump's more curious rally riffs that he used tonight in
Louisiana is his regular complaint about how he is supposedly excluded
from "the elite" class.
Rather
than arguing that it's better to be a non-elite than an elite, as
another conservative populist might, Trump argues that he is indeed
elite by all the traditional measures.
"I went to better schools than they did, I have nicer houses than they do, I have nicer apartments, I have nicer everything. And they're 'elite,' but we're not elite," Trump said tonight.
He went on to tell his supporters that they too are elite, in part because of how much money they are making.
Trump repeats an attack on Rep. Adam Schiff over the Ukraine call transcript
At
a rally tonight in Louisiana, President Trump claimed that Democratic
Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, only
offered a controversial, confusing paraphrase of the President's phone call with Ukraine's president because "he never thought that I was going to release the conversation."
In fact, Schiff spoke the day after Trump released the rough transcript.
Trump has repeatedly inverted the timeline to make an inaccurate argument that he outsmarted Schiff.
Trump rails against the whistleblower once more at Louisiana rally
President
Trump baselessly claimed at a rally in Louisiana tonight that the
whistleblower "disappeared" as soon as he released the rough transcript
of his "perfect" conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky.
The
rough transcript corroborated the whistleblower's primary allegations
about the conversation.He also said that he does not believe the
whistleblower's sources exist.
The
whistleblower said their information about the call came from "multiple
White House officials with direct knowledge of the call."
Trump holds a campaign rally in Louisiana tonight
President Trump is holding a campaign rally in Monroe, Louisiana, tonight.
It is Trump's second trip to the state in four weeks ahead of the its gubernatorial election on Nov. 16.
The
rally comes as House impeachment investigators released another
transcript of their interview with top diplomat to Ukraine Bill Taylor
today.
What's in the transcripts:
Taylor told House impeachment investigators that Trump's personal
attorney Rudy Giuliani was pressing Ukraine "to intervene in US domestic
policy or politics" by launching investigations into Trump's political
rivals, according to a transcript of Bill Taylor's deposition released
Wednesday.
Taylor told Congress in closed-door testimony last month he
saw the requests as so dangerous that he believed Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky should ignore them — even if it meant losing a
one-on-one meeting with Trump.
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