East Palestine Mayor To Speak At GOP Convention

Politico reports:

Trent Conaway, the mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, is slated to speak at next week’s Republican National Convention. Trump visited East Palestine on Feb. 22, 2023, weeks after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in the northeastern Ohio village.

Trump advisers view the visit as a turning point in his campaign, which had a rocky start. In November 2021, shortly after Trump launched his comeback bid, the former president had dined with rapper and Nazi sympathizer Kanye West and prominent Holocaust denier Nicholas Fuentes.

Just days after that, Trump published a social media post in which he called for the “termination of all rules …even those found in the Constitution.”

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