“We’re here to support him,” Pat said, nodding. He sat near the stage in a folding chair alongside his wife, Pat.
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“We came because of the Mar-a-Lago raid,” Mike Rutherford, a truck driver from East Stroudsburg, told me. And his ever-loyal fans have joined him in a defensive crouch. This time, the former president is in a strange new position: He’s backed into a corner by legal trouble. Trump is back at the forefront of American politics, just two months ahead of the midterm elections. “There can be no more real example of the very clear threats to American freedom than just a few weeks ago,” the former president said, when “we witnessed one of the most shocking abuses of power we have witnessed from any administration in American history!” The audience of thousands screamed in agreement when Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s become a regular warm-up act at these rallies, declared that the FBI had “violated our president’s rights.” And later on, the crowd exploded into one resounding, ricocheting jeer when Trump, finally on stage, addressed the matter himself. Fans wore T-shirts reading YOU RAIDED THE WRONG PRESIDENT and THREAT TO DEMOCRACY, in a reference to President Joe Biden’s speech last week in Philadelphia. A kind of manic, vengeful energy circulated among the throngs of supporters in the blue stadium seats at the Mohegan Sun Arena. WILKES-BARRE, Pa.-Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday night was his first major public appearance since the FBI searched his Florida home-and you could tell.
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