when he took to the stage here in Butler, turning away from the crowd for the briefest of seconds, just as he did 12 weeks ago, and said, “As I was saying.”
“I do. I don’t want to think too much about it. Because it’s too tough. But I do,” he says, then returns to talking about Corey. Trump says it is important to him to show up in places like Butler, but also in East Palestine, as he did a couple of weeks after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed, causing an environmental disaster.showed up that day, walking through the entire village through pounding sleet and mud, bringing crates of water bottles and buying hamburgers from the local McDonalds for the workers.
“They’re asking me about the votes. I said, ‘I’m not talking about votes. I’m talking about lives.’ North Carolina’s been hit so hard, and the people tell me they don’t see anybody, even from the federal government,” he said.