Donald Trump speaks to thousands at Myrtle Beach campaign stop
And the Trump clan wasn’t the only surprise.
At a campaign event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Tuesday, Donald Trump, who has spent the past week advocating for a mandatory database of Muslim Americans, ushered his rabid supporters towards that old Tea Party favorite: President Barack Obama is a secret Muslim.
It’s likely Trump will also discuss terrorism and worldwide affairs, but News13’s Meghan Miller talked to Trump’s camp Tuesday evening and they reported Trump “has no prepared remarks”, and he’ll talk about whatever he wants.
The Trump clan wasn’t the only surprise.
Trump had the crowd’s attention from start to finish, beginning by calling up his wife and three of his children to join him on stage.
Bush also lambasted Trump for claiming several times in recent days that thousands of Muslim Americans in New Jersey cheered the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Trump claimed the “liberal media” was hiding evidence of such celebrations, despite the city’s police commissioner saying it never happened.
But a Senate Intelligence Committee report released last December on the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as waterboarding determined the practice was largely ineffective and resulted in false and fabricated confessions and information. ‘There were no flags burning, no one was dancing’.
On Monday fellow Republican presidential candidate Sen.
Terry Silliman drove up from the Charleston area, he said he already planned to vote for Trump and Tuesday night’s speech just confirmed his choice. Marco Rubio, he said, is “weak on immigration, really weak”.
‘It’s about vision, folks, ‘ he said.