Donald Trump postpones meeting due to bad weather

Black sky, thick and threatening clouds. And now Donald Trump is forced to postpone a meeting in North Carolina on Saturday, the first major campaign event planned since the start of his criminal trial in New York.

Thousands of his supporters gathered at the airport in Wilmington, a state that will be hotly contested between Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden on November 5, before the Republican nominee announced the meeting would be postponed. “First of all, we want to make sure that everyone is safe, so we have been asked to ask people to leave the premises and take shelter,” the former president said in a telephone conversation broadcast on the website, according to AFP journalists.

“It looks like it’s thunder and lightning (…) I think we’ll have to postpone it for another time,” Donald Trump added, promising to organize another, “bigger” rally at the same location.

” Witch-hunt “

A man who hopes to make a triumphant return to the White House is on trial for allegedly making hidden payments to buy the silence of former porn star Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 election, which he won by wire against a Democrat. Hillary Clinton.

After condemning the witch hunt, Trump repeatedly protested that the court did not give him leeway. “I should be in Pennsylvania and Florida and a lot of other states right now, North Carolina, Georgia, campaigning,” he fumed this week.

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On Saturday morning, hours before the scheduled meeting, his followers in Wilmington had already begun to gather, armed with cooler bags and hats, under the blazing North Carolina sun. For Stephen Prater, a 29-year-old truck driver, it’s clear that his trial is happening “in large part because the left is trying to do everything to stop him from becoming president again.” Grace Miller, 58, feels the same way. This is a “political” process, she insists.