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Donald Trump suddenly stops North Carolina rally mid-speech and asks for 'a doctor, please!' | World News – Times of India
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The event, which was Trump’s first outdoor rally since a shooting incident at his Pennsylvania campaign stop last month, took a tense turn when the former president noticed a commotion in the crowd.“What’s wrong?” Trump asked, his voice laced with concern, before amplifying his plea into the microphone: “A doctor, please!”
As the sweltering heat bore down on the crowd—many of whom had waited for days to attend—Trump, visibly empathetic, turned his attention to the area where the attendee was being assisted. “It is very hot here,” he noted, acknowledging the challenging conditions. “Take your time, doctor, take your time, thank you!”
In a show of solidarity, Trump joined the crowd in applause before stepping away from his bulletproof podium, flanked by Secret Service agents. He approached the area where the individual was receiving aid, offering a hug and words of reassurance before returning to the podium amid chants of “We love Trump.”
Newsweek quoted the Secret Service saying that the incident was heat-related and that the individual received prompt care from EMTs. The spokesperson assured that the attendee was “fine” following the incident.
This episode follows a recent tragic event at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a 20-year-old gunman opened fire, resulting in one fatality and injuries to Trump and others. The shooter was killed by a counter-sniper, and the FBI is investigating the shooting as an assassination attempt.
Trump’s rally in North Carolina, held at the North Carolina Aviation Museum & Hall of Fame, was a high-stakes event in a pivotal battleground state. The rally featured a speech from his vice-presidential pick, Ohio Senator JD Vance, and comes as recent polls highlight North Carolina as a fiercely contested state in the 2024 presidential race. Vice President Kamala Harris also campaigned in the state just days earlier.
In a show of support, the Texas GOP praised Trump’s swift response, highlighting his concern for his supporters’ well-being. “Trump just stopped his whole rally to make sure one of the people in the audience was okay after there were shouts for a doctor in the crowd. What a genuinely good guy,” the Texas GOP remarked on social media.
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12 Recent Books by North Carolina Authors
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Hello, friends!
It has been a couple of years since I have written you a book column, as my family and I were on a two-year long vacation in the Rocky Mountains. We are back in North Carolina, where I have accepted a position as General Manager at Page 158 Books in Wake Forest (one of several great bookstores in the Triangle, as you know).
To celebrate, I’d like to highlight a dozen recent books by North Carolina authors (in alphabetical order by author). You can purchase the books (and support a local community bookstore, Page 158 Books, in the process) by clicking on the titles.
Western Alliances by Wilton Barnhardt ($29.00, St. Martin’s Press)
This fantastic novel by one of North Carolina’s longtime literary legends lives at the crossroads of HBO’s Succession and W.G. Sebald. Western Alliances follows a troubled rich family through Europe during the 2008 financial crisis. Wilton Barnhardt is one of our best satirical writers, and Western Alliances shows him at the top of his game.
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud ($17.99, TOR Nightfire)
Asheville’s Nathan Ballingrud gives us one of the best horror novella’s of 2024 with Crypt of the Moon Spider. The story, which is the first of a trilogy, takes place in 1923 in an institution for the melancholy on the dark side of the moon, providing a tremendous glimpse into mental health practices of the 1920s. For fans of Frankenstein, Edgar Allen Poe and the pulpy shock-novels of last century. Arachnophobes should tread lightly.
a little bump in the earth by Tyree Daye ($22.00, Copper Canyon Press)
Tyree Daye, a former student of Dorianne Laux (who will make an appearance further down this list) is one of our greatest young living poets, and North Carolina should not take him for granted. He has won a Whiting Writers Award and an APR/Honickman First Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Award. This collection is one of his finest.
Indigo Field by Marjorie Hudson ($22.95, Regal House Publishing)
Indigo Field by award-winning author Marjorie Hudson is a novel about grief, history, and how seemingly disparate lives can intersect in cataclysmic ways. Bestselling author Sue Monk Kidd says “”Indigo Field brims with multigenerational drama, earthy spirituality, and deeply imagined characters you are unlikely to forget. In tightly compressed, poetic language, Hudson weaves a mesmerizing story of loss, injustice, and revenge conspiring to darken the human heart—and the redemptive and unexpected ways the light comes in.”
What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher ($19.99, TOR Nightfire)
New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher just won a 2024 Hugo Award for best novella (for Thornhedge), and her newest novel What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier #2) is equally worthy of recognition. This novel is for fans of “The Fall of the House of Usher” and fans of scary stories that take place in the woods. T. Kingfisher ‘s bio says she lives in North Carolina with her husband, dogs and chickens who may or may not be possessed.
Finger Exercises for Poets by Dorianne Laux ($17.99, W.W. Norton and Company)
Dorianne Laux is a long-time staple of North Carolina State University’s Creative Writing faculty and though she has retired from the University and moved to California, we still claim her. Laux has been the recipient of the Paterson Poetry Prize, three Best American Poetry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. This latest book gifts us with craft essays and exercises for poets.
Shae by Mesha Maren ($28.00, Algonquin Books)
Just like Tyree Daye is one of our greatest young living poets, Mesha Maren is one of our greates young living novelists. Her previous novels, Sugar Run and Perpetual West, were two of the best novels of their respective years, and Shae is Maren’s greatest effort to date. Maren’s novels live at the intersection of Flannery O’Connor, Herper Lee and Roberto Bolaño. Mesha Maren is an Associate Professor of the Practice of English at Duke University.
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999 by Tom Maxwell ($30.00, Hachette Books)
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time documents what, before the present day, was likely the best time for local indie and alternative rock & roll acts in North Carolina. The scene from 1989-1999 in Chapel Hill produced many iconic acts, including Ben Folds Five, Bicycle Face, Polvo, Zen Frisbee, Superchunk, Metal Flake Mother and Squirrel Nut Zippers (author Tom MAxwell was a member of the latter two acts). This book is a great documentation of a hyper-local music scene, the likes of which we may never see again in the age of digital streaming.
Old Crimes by Jill McCorkle ($27.00, Algonquin Books)
Former North Carolina State University Creative Writing faculty member and North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame author Jill McCorkle is a master of her craft, and Old Crimes is her best collection yet. You will marvel at McCorkle’s tightrope act as she introduces you to her characters, lulling you into impressions of who they are and the lives they are leaving before slapping you in the phase with Joycean revelations and epiphanies. If you haven’t read Jill McCorkle yet, you are doing yourself a disservice.
Oh, Didn’t They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music by David Menconi ($28.00, University of North Carolina Press)
David Menconi is one of the best documentarians of North Carolina musical history, having previously given us Step It Up and Go, the best history of popular North Carolina music to date, and a biography of the dramatic and problematic troubadour Ryan Adams. In Oh, Didn’t They Ramble (which features a foreward by Robert Plant), Menconi gives us a fascinating history of an important record label, and a story of a couple of superfans of folk music who learned the music business and thrived like few can.
Evil Eye by Etaf Rum ($30.00, Harper)
Fresh off the success of her debut novel A Woman Is No Man, New York Times bestselling author Etaf Rum gives us “a moving meditation on motherhood, inter-generational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth” (Tara Conklin). Evil Eye was named an NPR Best Book of the Year, and it is also a favorite of the staff at Page 158 Books.
This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew by Daniel Wallace ($18.99, Algonquin Books)
UNC professor Daniel Wallace is a fantastic author and an even greater person. This Isn’t Going to End Well is his first memoir, and it is the memoir I didn’t know I wanted, but the exact book that I needed. It is about the oftentimes uncatalogued demons that lie under the skin of those who we think we know best, and ultimately, about how we should not remember our loved ones for the way they died, but for the way they lived. This Isn’t Going to End Well is one of the best memoirs of the 2020s.
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Trump plans to address national security in Asheboro, his second visit to NC in a week
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Former President Donald Trump plans to talk about national security when he visits North Carolina on Wednesday, highlighting an area where he has substantially more experience — but has also courted more controversy — than his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
The former president attracted criticism among former intelligence and national security officials for isolationist policies and for appearing to cozy up to leaders of foreign adversaries. Before this year’s primary elections, his former national security advisor called Trump’s style of governance a threat to national security.
Trump was also charged with endangering national security by taking classified military documents after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden. The government’s case against Trump was dismissed last month by a Trump-appointed federal judge. The U.S. Department of Justice under Biden is seeking to reinstate the charges.
Most Republicans are expected to support Trump in November. But the speech, to be held in Asheboro, comes as Democrats and former Republicans who oppose Trump seek to woo national security-minded unaffiliated voters and Republicans in a state with some of the nation’s biggest military installations. It’s Trump’s second North Carolina visit in a week; he was previously in Asheville to talk about the economy.
North Carolina Republican Party leaders have sought to boost Trump by knocking Biden.
Chairman Jason Simmons said Tuesday that Biden has done a poor job of conducting foreign policy, and he wants Trump back.
And as Democrats are now seeking to play up the role Harris has played in Biden’s administration on issues including foreign policy — an arena in which the former U.S. senator and state attorney general from California has limited experience — Republicans are likewise seeking to tie her to their criticisms of Biden.
“We saw in the last three-and-a-half years the chaos that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden put on us, on this country,” Simmons said. “Especially what we’ve seen with our country, where we have a broken economy, a broken border and a broken world. Where we see Iran being able to, with its proxies, invade and being able to bomb Israel, one of our best partners in the Middle East. We have Russia and Ukraine, and China, watching the whole time. We are scared.”
A top Biden administration official, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, told WRAL in advance of Trump’s Asheboro speech that he has watched Harris engage in foreign policy in her role as vice president. He said she’s done a good job helping rebuild relationships with world leaders who became more cautious of the U.S., following Trump’s presidency.
“I’ve sat at her side as she engaged leaders from around the world, and has done a lot already to restore the respect for the US that was badly undermined during the Trump years,” Buttigieg said. “And that’s going to be especially important in things like defending democracy against the aggression of Vladimir Putin.”
A Pew Research Center survey in 2023 found America’s image in foreign countries has improved since Biden took over for Trump — and not just in Europe, but also Asia, Africa and South America.
Immigration as national security risk
As Trump seeks to return to office, he has sought to engage voters by broadening the scope of national security — which traditionally has focused on foreign policy issues — to include immigration enforcement at the country’s Southern border. For instance, Trump falsely claimed last year that Islamist terrorists are “pouring” across the border.
“He tries to make immigration the No. 1 national security risk,” Meredith College political science professor David McLennan said ahead of Trump’s speech. “He talks about it as being more significant than any international foe that we might think about. So he talks about drugs coming across the border, gangs coming across the border, ISIS coming across the border.”
Immigration is a key issue for conservative voters; a WRAL News poll in March found it was the single biggest issue for Republicans this year, beating out the economy for the top spot.
It’s possible that GOP officials are trying to take an issue their base is highly engaged in and tie it to national security — an issue some Trump opponents see as one of his biggest weaknesses.
“Among his supporters, that’s national security,” McLennan said of Trump’s immigration talking points.
Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson, who has become one of the nation’s leading “Never Trump” voices through his group The Lincoln Project, told WRAL earlier this month his group is preparing to start targeting what he calls “national security Republicans” in North Carolina. The state has an above-average population of veterans; Fayetteville and Jacksonville are home to two of the world’s largest military bases in the U.S. Army’s Fort Liberty and the U.S. Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune.
The Lincoln Project messaging, Wilson said, will be aimed at veterans and fans of Reagan-era foreign policy with ads about Trump’s isolationist foreign policy stances, relationship with Putin and his comments about veterans.
Trump has repeatedly been accused of mocking or criticizing veterans killed in action or taken prisoner, including by his former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. Most recently Trump downplayed the Congressional Medal of Honor, saying that since many soldiers who receive it are dead or maimed, it pales in comparison to a different award that’s often given to celebrities, athletes and politicians.
Wednesday’s speech offers Trump a chance to ask voters to look past his more controversial statements and scandals, and instead trust that he’ll deliver the kind of stances they want to see in a president, said Chris Cooper, a Western Carolina University political scientist.
“He needs to lay out a plan,” Cooper said. “He needs to stay on message. He needs to be a little more disciplined. I think the possibility is there. It’s an area where voters, on average, trust the Republican Party more.”
Trump’s record as president
Trump’s one term as president was notable for the departures he took from standard U.S. foreign policy. He was a frequent critic of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and he has indicated that if reelected he will pull the U.S. out of NATO — unless European members of the alliance pay more money into its operations.
The dissolution of NATO is considered a key goal of Putin. So, too, is Trump’s repeated indication that he might end U.S. aid to Ukraine if he returns to the White House, amid that country’s invasion by Russia.
In the early days of Trump’s presidency, he faced criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike after allegedly revealing highly classified military intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak. Trump was also pressured into firing his first national security advisor, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, for Flynn lying about separate conversations he had with Kislyak. Flynn later pleaded guilty to a felony as part of the probe into Trump’s Russian ties by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was also convicted as part of that probe. Trump pardoned both men after losing the 2020 election.
In the Middle East, Trump presided over military actions that led to the deaths of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. The latter assassination was praised by foreign policy hawks; it has also coincided with Iran becoming more aggressive in backing attacks against international shipping via its allies in the Yemen-based Houthi movement, and also against U.S. ally Israel via Hamas, the Iranian-backed group that rules the Gaza Strip.
Trump also signed a peace treaty with the Taliban during his final year in office, paving the way toward the eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan during Biden’s first year in office — an act that saw the end of America’s 20-year-long military presence in the country. The withdrawal also drew criticism as being rushed and chaotic, particularly after suicide bombers killed 13 U.S. military members and dozens of Afghan civilians during the final days of America’s military presence there.
McLennan said he’ll be interested to watch whether Harris focuses on other issues as she goes up against Trump for the presidency, or if she leans into highlighting their differences on foreign policy. Harris is expected to accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for president during this week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
“Biden had some problems with the military because of the Afghanistan withdrawal and some other topics,” he said. “Harris tends to not be very vocal, and that’s what I’m watching for in her nomination acceptance speech: Does she talk at all about national security? Or is she going to give Trump that space?”
Laura Leslie, Jack Hagel, Brian Murphy and Paul Specht of the WRAL state government team contributed reporting.
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