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President Donald Trump, speaking during a closed-door speech to Republican Party of Florida donors at the state partys annual Statesmans Dinner, was in rare form Saturday night.
The dinner, which raised $3.5 million for the state party, was met with unusual secrecy. The 1,000 attendees were required to check their cell phones into individual locked cases before they entered the unmarked ballroom at the south end of the resort. Reporters were not allowed to attend.
But the secrecy was key to Trumps performance, which attendees called hilarious.
Riding the high of the successful event turnout and without the pressure of press or cell phones Trump transformed into a total comedian, according to six people who attended the event and spoke afterward to the Miami Herald.
He also pulled an unusual move, bringing on stage Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, who Trump pardoned last month for cases involving war crimes. Lorance was serving a 19-year sentence for ordering his soldiers shoot at unarmed men in Afghanistan, and Golsteyn was to stand trial for the 2010 extrajudicial killing of a suspected bomb maker.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article238150139.html
randr
(12,409 posts)I am sure his minions found this amusing
Arkansas Granny
(31,506 posts)I can't believe that Republicans have come to the point that they condone war criminals while they wave the flag and claim to be patriots.
demmiblue
(36,822 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Girard442
(6,065 posts)A stunt. Nothing more.