Former President Donald Trump After arriving at a Wisconsin rally on his private jet and adoring 15,000 supporters, he vowed Saturday to restore free speech in America “because it’s being taken away.”
“They’ve taken away your speech, and the threat of fake news is a threat to this country,” the Republican presidential candidate said while speaking at a central Wisconsin airport in Mosinee, Wis.
Although Trump did not mention any reporters or media outlets by name, his comments came two days after New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger ran a scathing op-ed in the Washington Post, warning that “Trump’s aggressive and persistent efforts is different for. undermine the free press.”
Sulzberger also stressed that Americans should be prepared for an anti-media “playbook” if Trump wins in November.
“When you’re a politician…, and you happen to be a Republican or somewhat conservative, they write against what the facts are, and if you’re a cab driver, if you’re an accountant, if you’re a lawyer, if you’re anything else. , so you don’t know the details,” said Trump, who arrived at the airport in his Boeing 757, dubbed “Trump Force One.”
“When we know the facts, and the story is written exactly the opposite of what it is, you start to lose faith in the press.”
Trump promised, if re-elected, to sign an executive order “prohibiting any federal employee from colluding to limit speech” and “firing any federal official who engaged in domestic censorship under the Harris regime.”
It was Trump’s fourth appearance in Wisconsin during the campaign, but marked his first trip to the deep red, largely rural part of the key battleground state.
He also tore into Harris — whom he will face in Tuesday’s high-profile presidential debate — for lax border policies that have fueled a national immigration crisis, spiked crime rates and dented taxpayer pockets nationwide.
Like Trump, Harris has been a frequent visitor this year to Wisconsin, a state where four of the last six presidential elections have been decided by less than a percentage point.
Polls of Wisconsin voters conducted since Biden withdrew his re-election bid in July show Harris and Trump deadlocked.
Democrats must win Wisconsin, a “blue wall” state.
Biden, who was in Wisconsin on Thursday, won the state by just 21,000 votes in 2020, while Trump won it by nearly 23,000 votes in 2016.
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