Former President Donald Trump addressed an audience of undecided Latino voters on Wednesday at a town hall in Miami, where he responded to questions about reproductive rights, climate change, immigration, the cost of living and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
At the town hall, hosted by Univision, Trump defended the baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating their neighbors’ pets. He notably repeated the debunked rumor during the presidential debate in September.
“I was just saying what was reported,” Trump explained. “That’s been reported, and eating other things, too, that they’re not supposed to be.” He added that “newspapers” reported on this claim, but did not name any sources.
Ramiro Gonzalez, a self-proclaimed Republican who wanted to give Trump the “opportunity to try to win back my vote,” said he was alarmed by how the former president “waited so long to take action” during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“Hundreds of thousands of people come to Washington,” Trump said in a lengthy response. “They didn’t come because of me. They came because of the election. They thought the election was a rigged election. That’s why they came.”
The former president also referred to a remark he made on Jan. 6, 2021, when he...
Donald Trump is not backing off from his baseless claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH, are eating family pets. The former president, in fact, doubled down last night during a town ha...