During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, former Texas prosecutor David Henderson suggested there was more to the cancellation of Donald Trump's Saturday night rally than inclement weather.
After fans waited all day at the Wilmington, North Carolina airport where the rally was scheduled, the former president called in and begged off by blaming severe weather in the area.
"We're flying in in a few minutes, but they really would prefer that we not come in because there's a certain danger to all of this," Trump stated with his voice broadcast to the waiting crowd. "And 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."
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He added he was "sad" and offered a "rain check" with a promise to try again
According to the Associated Press, "The assembled voters expressed frustrations with the turn of events but made clear they understood. Many of them had spent hours ahead of the rally holding prime seats, patronizing food trucks and perusing a row of tents selling Trump memorabilia, including T-shirts featuring the former president’s mug shot taken in Atlanta after his indictment on charges that he led a criminal conspiracy to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory."
Asked by MSNBC host Alex Witt, about the last minute change of plans, attorney Henderson speculated the former president's lawyers might have had a hand in convincing the former president to pull the plug.
"Was the cancellation potentially partly strategic?" host Witt pressed.
"Alex, I think it is a good chance that it was strategic," he replied. "And this will be an ongoing theme we talk about this [hush money] trial. Trials cannot accommodate uncontrollable witnesses. and so a number of things we saw happen during the first few days of this trial will come up because president Trump — the former president —can open the door by making statements publicly that are not true that can go back to bite him in the courtroom."
"So his lawyers would prefer for him to say as little as possible from now until the trial is done," he added.
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