Trump allies bash Harris with conspiracy theories at Michigan town hall

While allies of former President Donald Trump gathered in Farmington Hills on Friday for a town hall as part of Trump’s “Agenda 47 Policy Tour,” policy discussions remained scant, as members of the panel played up conspiracies pushed by the former president in their efforts to mobilize voters. The panel, which consisted of Republican former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, Republican National Committeewoman Hima Kolanagireddy, Michigan Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt and Republican former gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon, briefly touched on concerns of inflation, border security and Trump’s proposal to remove taxes on tips and overtime pay, while multiple panel members conspiracies of election fraud and the existence of a shadow government or “deep state.” The event took place as both the campaigns of Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris continue to lavish attention on the battleground state of Michigan. In the order on sanctions, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks said Trump’s complaint, which accused defendants of conspiring to sink his 2016 campaign by alleging ties to Russia, “should never have been brought. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim.” Habba also repeated Trump’s claim that Harris supported funding transitions for undocumented immigrants in prison. While answering a question from a pro-Trump content creator who said he was facing censorship on social media, Ramaswamy argued government actors are working to censor conservative content creators on social media, echoing claims from a case before the Supreme Court earlier this year accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of colluding with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech by encouraging the removal of misinformation about COVID-19 and the 2020 election.