President Trump takes jabs at Biden and Whitmer in Michigan stop
President Donald Trump talked about downplaying the coronavirus and made time to take swipes at Gov. Whitmer and Democrat opponent Joe Biden.
U.S. President Donald Trump made a campaign stop in Freeland Michigan Thursday, one day after former Vice President and Democratic nominee Joe Biden was in the state.
The President praised the auto industry here and spoke of how he fought for jobs and manufacturing to return to the state in a speech that lasted about one hour and 15 minutes. It was his first visit to the state since a May 21 trip to Ford's Rawsonville plant to observe the company's process for making ventilators.
Trump refocused attention on his Democratic rival as he pushed to move past revelations that he purposefully played down the danger of the coronavirus last winter.
The President took some jabs at Governor Gretchen Whitmer, saying the state would be better if it, "had a governor who knew what the hell she was doing."
Trump said through coronavirus relief efforts 1.6 million Michigan jobs were saved as well as 128,000 Michigan businesses.
Trump talks auto industry recovery
In this clip President Trump says 200 auto and auto part factories have come back to the US in the last four years.
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"Michigan has already regained half of the jobs that were lost and if your state was ever allowed to safely reopen, by your governor who doesn't have a clue, she's like Joe (Biden), you would have regained far more than that," Trump said. "Open up your state madam governor.
"Just like crazy Nancy Pelosi, your governor is a liberal hypocrite who lives by a different set of rules. Her husband was caught trying to put his boat into the water on Memorial Day weekend, while she was ordering the people of Michigan to stay in their homes and businesses were declaring bankruptcy left and right."
But the virus controversy followed him as he faced new pushback from local officials worried about the growing size of his rallies and his campaign's repeated flouting of public health guidelines intended to halt the COVID-19 spread. That includes Michigan's Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who raised alarms about Thursday's event, warning it would make recovery harder.
Trump, however, reveled in the crowd of several thousand, packed shoulder-to-shoulder in a cavernous airport hangar, mostly without masks -- with Air Force One on display as his backdrop.
Trump blasts Whitmer
In this clip President Trump takes a shot at Governor Gretchen Whitmer and brings up the Memorial Day boat issue involving her husband.
"This is not the crowd of a person who comes in second place," Trump declared to cheers as he railed against Whitmer for current state restrictions.
Trump spoke of a possible vaccine and said that the country had turned the corner against the coronavirus.
"Before the end of the year, we will have a safe effective vaccine and defeat the China virus. With or without it, we are coming around the turn," he said. "But the fake news doesn't like telling you that."
Trump announced his visit on Saturday, the day after Biden announced his Wednesday visit. It also comes amid turmoil for the President as a new book revealed Wednesday he was aware of the severity of the coronavirus in February as he was telling the nation that the virus was no worse than the seasonal flu and insisting that the U.S. government had it totally under control.
Trump tried to dispel the Woodward book Thursday calling him a "whack job" and saying that he held he handled the news of the virus' danger the right way by not panicking the American public, claiming he handled it "just the right way."
"They wanted me to come out and scream 'People are dying,'" he said. "We have to be calm we don't want to be crazed lunatics. We have to lead."
Trump claims US has handled COVID-19 the right way
In this clip President Trump responds to the Bob Woodward book revelations that he knew more about the virus than he let on, in terms of how deadly it was but did not tell the public.
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said in a Feb. 7 call with Woodward. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
“This is deadly stuff,” the president repeated for emphasis.
Trump told Woodward on March 19 that he deliberately minimized the danger. “I wanted to always play it down,” the president said.
Also Wednesday, Trump hit back at former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder for endorsing Biden last week.
Trump tweeted: "The failed former Governor of Michigan, RINO Rick Snyder, who was responsible for the Flint Water Disaster (and I let him know it!), is now endorsing Sleepy Joe Biden, who doesn’t have a clue! Snyder, whose political career was ruined by Flint, hurt a lot of people in Michigan.
"I’ll take the Endorsement of Law Enforcement all over the Country, and Joe can have the RINO’S. This Snyder mess was made during the OBiden era - no wonder they’re friends!"
RINO is used as slang for "Republican In Name Only." The social media blast comes one day after Snyder spoke to FOX 2 Lansing insider Tim Skubick, saying that Biden was better for America and a short time since a USA Today Op-Ed in which he called the president a bully.
In that Op-Ed Synder cited a need to return to civility while calling out the president who "lacks a moral compass" and "ignores the truth."
On Tuesday Snyder expounded on those thoughts speaking to Tim Skubick saying, "I'm a proud Republican," said Rick Snyder. "But I have to think about what is best for America. And in this case, Joe Biden is a better choice for America than Donald Trump in my view."
The state of Michigan has reached an agreement with residents of Flint that includes $600 million in settlement money, after a years-long lawsuit over the Flint water crisis.
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