Trump postpones first campaign rally since trial began, due to bad weather

By AFP 21 April 2024, 2:56 am

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Supporters of former US president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are asked to move to a shelter as a storm moves in before Trump was due to speak, at a campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, April 20, 2024. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called off a campaign rally on Saturday evening — the first since his New York criminal trial began — due to bad weather.

“We want to make sure that everybody is safe above all and so they’ve asked us to ask people to leave the site and seek shelter,” Trump says in a phone call broadcast at the outdoor venue where many of his supporters had gathered under heavy dark clouds.

“There seems to be some thunder and lightning and it’s a pretty big storm. So if you don’t mind, I think we’re gonna have to just do a rain check. I’m so sad.”