Donald Trump's Rally in Ohio Is Still On, Despite Reports From His Own Supporters
A Donald Trump rally in Cincinnati Sunday afternoon is still on, despite reports to the contrary from Trump’s own supporters.
On Saturday, Reuters reported that the rally for the Republican presidential frontrunner in Ohio planned for Sunday afternoon had been called off because of security concerns:
Eric Deters, a local spokesman for Trump’s campaign, said the candidate’s secret service security detail could not complete its preparation work in time to hold the event at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, the website said.
A man by the name of Eric Deters appears to live in the Cincinnati area, and he has been recording videos supporting Trump and sending out tweets about the rally lately. Deters was suspended twice from practicing law in Kentucky, once involving false statements made in a libel suit. In a series of messages, Deters confirmed to Gawker that he had said the event was cancelled; he claims that it was cancelled and rescheduled to a different venue.
But Trump, ever quick to the trigger with those tiny fingers, fired back on Sunday, saying it was still scheduled.
The rally in Cincinnati is ON. Media put out false reports that it was cancelled. Will be great - love you Ohio!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 12, 2016
A spokeswoman for Trump, Hope Hicks, told Raw Story in an email: “We don’t know Eric Deters. There has been no cancellation.”
Deters, who provided a photo of him standing next to Donald Trump as proof of his connection to the campaign, said that he is the volunteer northern Kentucky chair of Trump’s campaign, and that the national campaign “wouldn’t know me. Lol.”
Trump, for his part, was also caught in another half-truth, or non-truth, on Saturday. The Associated Press reported that a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department said that his agency never recommended that Trump cancel his campaign rally in Chicago Friday night—despite what he’d told his supporters. From AP:
Guglielmi says the university’s police department also did not recommend that Trump call off the event. He says the decision was made “independently” by the campaign.
Trump cancelled the rally in Chicago due to what organizers said were safety concerns after protesters packed into the arena where it was to take place.
Trump afterward told MSNBC in a telephone interview that he canceled the event because he didn’t “want to see people hurt or worse.” He said he thinks he “did the right thing.”
For context, here is what “the right thing” looks like:
