GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO AM/FM) — Michigan is a must-win state for Donald Trump if he wants a second term, and he launched his Michigan reelection drive Thursday night at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids.
Of course “Topic A” was the Mueller Report calling for actions against those who claimed he colluded when the report says he did not.
He announced that the “collusion delusion is over.”
If last fall’s election was any indication, he has his work cut out if he plans to repeat here.
Michigan Democratic Party Chair Lavora Barnes blasted Trump saying he “failed to discuss his broken promises to the working people of Michigan and had nothing to say but the same tired slogans everyone has already heard.”
About 12,000 people made it into Van Andel Arena.
Grand Rapids Police estimate that another 3,000 who either couldn’t get in or were there to protest stayed outside.
There were two arrests and three were treated for minor injuries.
Before leaving Washington for the rally President Trump also announced that he was reversing Secretary of Education’s Betsy DeVos’s recommendation that they cut funding for Special Olympics.
The 180-degree turn comes after DeVos spent 2 days defending the proposal on Capitol Hill.
It may be an easy concession for the Trump Administration to make since most in Congress said they would not support the cut.
Special Olympics was not the only program the Trump Administration has tried to rub out that he reversed himself on Thursday.
At the rally he promised he would fully fund a program that has been cleaning up contamination and protecting the Great Lakes from invasive species for years, a total of $300M.
It was once again drastically slashed in the budget proposal he released earlier this month.
Each year it has been refunded by Congress, and probably would have again this year.
(copy written by John McNeill)
