In a closed-door meeting with GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the former president shaded the city. He’s doubled down since.
“Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city,” Trump said, as first reported by Punchbowl News. Whether the expected 2024 Republican presidential nominee will even be in attendance is still up in the air. Trump’s summer plans got complicated after he was convicted by a New York City jury of 34 felonies last month for falsifying documents to cover up a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, a porn star, ahead of the 2016 election.
He was talking about specific issues in the city.” This isn’t the first time Trump has shaded the state—he’s been talking negatively about its standing for years. On the campaign trail back in 2016, he said that the state had declined under then-Governor Scott Walker, a Republican. “I thought Wisconsin was doing well,” Trump said, per Mother Jones. “And it’s not true! It’s okay, it’s in the middle of the pack. Nothing spectacular.
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