NOVI, Mich.–Michigan Republicans cheered loudest and longest for former President Donald Trump when he declared that there’s a hidden agenda behind Democrat attempts to criminally convict him.
“They want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom,” Trump stated during a June 25 speech, drawing a sustained standing ovation. “They want to silence me because I will never let them silence you.”
Appearing in Michigan for the first time since launching his third run for the presidency, Trump spoke for an hour to the sold-out crowd at the Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner.
The audience of more than 2,000 people at the Suburban Collection Showplace was so appreciative that, at times, cheering and applause drowned out what Trump was trying to say.
After Trump’s speech, attendee Jena Wesley told The Epoch Times: “It’s the truth. They’re not after Trump. They’re after us.”
“They’re trying to take away everything that we have, everything that the American country stands for,” Wesley said. “They’re trying to take away God, family and country.”
Wesley’s friend, Lisa Russo, agreed.
‘Takeover’ of Country?
Trump, who was federally indicted earlier this month for alleged improprieties with classified documents, says he has done nothing wrong. He has also pleaded not guilty to state charges in New York over allegedly falsified business records.
He predicted grave consequences “if these corrupt persecutions succeed.”
Leftists “will complete their takeover of this country and they will destroy your way of life and the United States of America forever… it will never be able to come back from that,” Trump said. “That’s why this is the most important election we’ve ever had.”
Trump said it is outrageous that President Joe Biden’s administration “ordered his top political opponent to be arrested–that’s me,” he said wryly.
By Janice Hisle
