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Former President Donald Trump will no longer be coming to Arizona this week, where he was scheduled to speak during a GOP rally Friday evening in Phoenix. The AZGOP Freedom Fest has also been canceled, an Arizona Republican Party spokesperson confirmed to Arizona’s Family.

Trump was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the event. Other speakers who were scheduled to appear included Congress members Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar and Eli Crane, as well as U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake, Abe Hamadeh, Charlie Kirk and Tyler Bowyer. Tickets to the event were sold through eventbrite, and a state GOP spokesperson says refunds will be issued.

The announcement that Trump wouldn’t be coming to Arizona was made soon after the former president briefly took the stand in a New York defamation trial that will determine how much he could owe advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. It’s unclear if the trial had any bearing on the decision to cancel the trip.

The news also comes a day after the Chairman of the Arizona Republican Party resigned. Jeff DeWit stepped down amid pressure after a British tabloid released secretly recorded audio clips of him reportedly trying to bribe Lake to keep her from running for U.S. Senate.

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[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 110 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Remember when he floated the idea that the DNC was keeping Biden away from in person speaking events because his mental acuity was declining?

Remember?

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
[–] lewdian69@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What? He is still going on long rambling speeches almost daily. He made 20ish minute long speeches in both Iowa and New Hampshire this very week, at night. I'd give anything for his handlers to do what you think they are and keep him locked up, but your comment has no bearing on what's actually happening.

Yeah I double checked, he spoke for almost 2 hours in Iowa...

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] lewdian69@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hey now, read what I actually wrote. I don't want him to win, or like him, or think any of his speeches make a lick of sense. Again I WISH they would get him out of here. I just haven't seen anyone on his team reining him in at all. It was a judge that made him stop on the witness stand and we don't know why the entire AZ rally was canceled not just his part. I'm on your side about his cognitive decline but I'm also not going to grasp at straws. We've been doing that for too long hoping he would go away and it never happens.

And yes looks like the 2 hour Iowa speech I was thinking of was on January 6th not this week.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It really seems like his cognitive function has taken a sharp decline in the last few months

[–] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 years ago

Speaker list is a veritable who’s who of terrible people.

[–] Blackout@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What are they going to do when he dies? Jump off a really high cliff into a rocky coastline?

[–] protist@mander.xyz 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's hard to imagine the GOP not splitting in some way after he dies. There are going to be a ton of people trying to claim his mantle, and they don't care at all about destroying each other in the process

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just look at Boebert and MTG both competing to be "the MAGA girl". They hate each other. There's no room in MAGA for a team, just moronic personalities and supplication to whoever is currently the head MAGA.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 2 years ago

Good. They'll eat each other and maybe, just maybe, we can get actual shit done.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

It's the only way this country can survive going forwards. If we're able to vote him out long enough that he croaks.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It will be a bucket of crabs, like Gaetz and McCarthy, Boobert and Marge, etc.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I don’t know but can we find out soon?

[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

I guess the mouth breathers are going to have to go back to rubbin' 'em out to Guns and Ammo back issues.

[–] DBT@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It’s his neck looks like it has a butthole in this picture.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It does in most of his pictures.

[–] DBT@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I was just looking at an article talking about is fucked up makeup and in that photo he has a neck pussy in place of the neck butthole.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

His whole head looks like a deflated haemorrhoid.

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That's just his mangina.

[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago

“Freedom fest cancelled.”

There’s a LOT of irony in that.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

"Freedom Fest". These people co-opt terms like freedom, liberty, etc., and now they have their exact opposite meaning when they use them.

The little d party is not about freedom at all. They are for the very opposite of freedom, at least for anyone outside their increasingly smaller definition of what it means to be part of their in-group.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

Uh oh, "Cancel Culture" infiltrates the AZGOP I guess!

[–] BoxerDevil@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He was only going to get votes to get the nomination. He has no other use for those plebians

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 14 points 2 years ago

Yeah, now that the RNC is basically just going to declare him the winner.