MORNING VIEW, Ky. – Donald Trump Jr. was the star speaker at Freedom Fest Saturday in Northern Kentucky where he dismissed Taylor Swift’s Kamala Harris endorsement, suggested an assassination conspiracy against his father, and repeated the false claim that immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
“The media is going to tell you (Kamala Harris is) a moderate,” he said. “They will tell you anything because they’re not the ones that are going to get a bunch of migrants dumped in their backyard eating their pets.”
The false claim that Haitian immigrants are eating pets began circulating online over the past few weeks and made its way onto the presidential debate stage Tuesday.
Immigration was one of the major talking points at the festival and a major concern among attendees who called for stricter immigration laws and border security.
Several thousand were at the third such event after it was canceled last year when former president Donald Trump withdrew as the primary guest speaker.
Host and political firebrand Eric Deters began welcoming people to his Morning View farm, about 25 miles south of Cincinnati, on Friday where people parked campers and listened to live music into the night.
The festival-like rally featured politicians, conservative activists, Trump Jr., and his fiancee, former prosecutor and Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Taylor Swift ‘doesn’t get it.’
Trump Jr. said pop superstar Taylor Swift is disconnected from the average person and doesn’t understand what people in the country are going through.
“I get that Taylor Swift isn’t affected by a 25% increase in your grocery prices, 50% increases in your insurance,” he said to a cheering audience. “Guess what? She’ll get on her plane … make another billion dollars. She doesn’t get it, you guys.”
Former President Donald Trump is worth an estimated $7.5 billion, Forbes reported this spring, and Trump Jr. acknowledged he’s been “incredibly blessed.”
Assassination attempt was ‘by design and it was on purpose.’
Trump Jr. said he was fishing with his daughter when he got a call telling him his father and former President Donald Trump had been shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania this summer.
It took him 40 minutes to find out his dad was OK, he said.
Trump Jr. said the attack – where a man was killed shielding his family from gunfire – was orchestrated by those who have tried to demonize his father.
“They called him a Nazi long enough to radicalize a 20-year-old kid who magically has no social media footprint, no digital footprint whatsoever, and they managed to let a shooter have 20 minutes inside of 130 yards,” he said. “That was by design, and it was on purpose, right? That’s not a conspiracy.”
Audience members agreed, some shouting that the shooting was an “inside job.”
No evidence has been made publicly available that suggests the assassination attempt involved anyone other than the shooter killed at the scene.
“Pets are now being grilled.”
Rumors that Haitian immigrants are killing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio have been debunked by city officials, residents, and reporters.
More: ‘They hate us’ Haitian Springfield residents speak out as city remains in spotlight
But that didn’t stop Trump Jr. from repeating the claim that “pets are now being grilled.”
The viral story put a national spotlight on the western Ohio city. It’s prompted a slew of hate toward Haitian immigrants and evacuations at two elementary schools and Springfield City Hall this week. Saturday, threats to two hospitals in the area caused lockdowns.
Republican vice-presidential nominee and Ohio Sen. JD Vance also fueled the rumors about immigrants eating pets Saturday.
He retweeted a grainy video made public by conservative activist Christopher F. Rufo, who said African migrants grilled and ate cats last summer in Dayton, Ohio.
Dayton Mayor Jeffrey Mim and Dayton Police Chief Kamran Afzal disputed the claim in online statements, The Enquirer reported.
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