GOP nominee Donald Trump drew attention to an issue that he thinks has received inadequate press coverage by invoking the death penalty at a rally Sunday night.
“If I got ’em, it would not be a pretty picture. They would reinstitute the electric chair,” Trump said to a hangar packed with his supports in Moon Township, Penn.
The issue was debate questions that former CNN contributor and interim head of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile had funneled to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in advance of a townhall and a primary debate versus then-opponent Bernie Sanders.
Brazile first denied that she had done this but the cable news network determined that she had facilitated this cheating and severed ties with her.
The electric chair was hyperbole on Trump’s part, and part of the section of his stump speech where he calls out the press for their dishonesty, in allegedly downplaying the size of his crowds and ignoring any good news for the Republican nominee.
He pointed to recent promising polling in a number of battleground states and said that members of the media are asking, “What the hell is going on? This wasn’t supposed to be the way it is!”
Trump arrived at the rally over two hours late, at about 10:20 local time and kept his remarks reasonably peppy and short, about 25 minutes. Then he got back on his plane and tried to make it to his fourth rally of the day in Leesburg, Va.
