Former president Donald Trump will return to Michigan next week, even as a trial continues in New York over whether he committed election fraud in 2016 by authorizing payments to an adult film star to cover up allegations of a connection.
The president’s campaign announced Wednesday evening that he will campaign in a hangar at the Saginaw County Airport in Freeland on Wednesday, May 1 at 6 p.m. The event – which will be open to the public, although tickets will be required – will follow an event earlier in the day in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Both Michigan and Wisconsin are considered key states that will ultimately help determine whether Trump or President Joe Biden, who defeated Trump in both states four years ago, wins re-election.
Trump was last in Michigan on April 2, campaigning in Grand Rapids on immigration issues and making a series of specious assertions on the subject, including that other countries are emptying prisons and psychiatric facilities to send migrants to the United States and suggesting that violent crime is increasing as a result, while it is declining nationally. The Biden administration, however, has seen a marked increase in the number of undocumented immigrants attempting to cross the southern border in recent years.
The last time Trump visited Freeland Airport, in September 2020, before the election he lost to Biden, he made wildly inaccurate claims about his success in revitalizing Michigan’s dominant auto industry, notably that his administration had paved the way for the opening of several automobile factories, while only one had been announced. The industry had actually lost jobs in the state during his tenure, even before the COVID-19-induced shutdowns.
The Free Press also exposed these false claims in 2020, as it did during Trump’s recent visit to Grand Rapids.
Trump is also returning to Michigan following Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing in which the former president, accused of criminally attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election he lost to Biden, can be prosecuted for actions he took while in office absent a conviction. impeachment by Congress.
He also faces charges in an ongoing criminal trial in New York, accused of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels before the election. 2016. On Wednesday he was also mentioned in court as an unindicted co-conspirator in the prosecution of more than a dozen supporters in Michigan accused of presenting themselves as valid voters in the 2020 elections, in an unsuccessful attempt to overturn the outcome of that vote.
Biden won Michigan in 2020 by more than 154,000 votes, or just under three percentage points.
The most recent polls have shown Trump leads Biden in face-to-face rematch in Michigan this year, even if the margin is narrowing. Biden has made a few visits to Michigan this year,…
