Former President Donald Trump humiliated a reporter who tried lobbing a “gotcha” question at him accusing him of visiting a Michigan town tied to “white supremacy.”
Trump had finished giving remarks on crime and safety at the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office in Howell, Michigan on Tuesday when the reporter ambushed him with a bad-faith question about “white supremacy.”
“Can you respond to Kamala Harris’s campaign attacking you for being in this town because they say there were white supremacists here a month ago?” she asked, which was immediately met with boos and jeers from attendees.
REPORTER: Kamala's campaign attacked you for being in this town because it's associated with white supremacy.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Who was here in 2021?
REPORTER: "Joe Biden"
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Thank you."
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 20, 2024
Trump calmly approached the mic and asked the reporter, “Who was here in 2021?”
“Joe Biden,” the reporter replied.
“Haha, thank you,” Trump said before walking away.
Will the reporter ask Biden if he’s a white supremacist for once visiting Howell? Don’t count on it.
The reporter’s question referred to a loose group of white supremacists who demonstrated in Howell last month, where they chanted “Heil Hitler” and carried signs with messages like “White Lives Matter” and “End the War on White Children.”
Howell was also known to be a “KKK hotspot” in the 70s and 80s due to Michigan KKK Grand Dragon Robert Miles holding rallies there, but the town has worked over the decades to restore its image.
Of course, the rest of the media augmented the Harris campaign’s “guilt by association” fallacy play that Trump is somehow a white supremacist simply for visiting Howell — despite Biden also visiting at one point.
Former President Donald Trump visited a Michigan town, one month after white supremacists rallied there, sparking renewed criticism from Democrats who accuse his campaign of stirring up racial tensions for political gain https://t.co/vgDOtXsTVn pic.twitter.com/VCnyRyMfCp
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 20, 2024
Trump campaigns in Michigan town with historic links to white supremacists https://t.co/iVvlFnMuWN
— The Times of Israel (@TimesofIsrael) August 20, 2024
Donald Trump is set to speak about crime and safety in Howell, Mich.
Kamala Harris’s campaign said white supremacists marched there recently “in Trump’s name.” https://t.co/Cn1AnlUlys
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 18, 2024
This is just another example of the media’s dishonest tactics to tarnish Trump’s image ahead of the 2024 election.
Watch Trump’s full remarks: