(CNN) – President Donald Trump repeatedly attacked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, during his rally in Lansing, Michigan, on Tuesday, at one point taking credit for the FBI thwarting a plot to kidnap her and then immediately downplaying the actual threat that had been posed to Whitmer.
“Your governor, I don’t thinks she likes me too much,” Trump joked, prompting a loud reaction from the crowd.
“Hey, hey, hey hey,” he told the audience, “I’m the one, it was our people that helped her out with her problem.”
“I mean, we’ll have to see if it’s a problem. Right? People are entitled to say maybe it was a problem, maybe it wasn’t,” he added. “It was our people — my people, our people that helped her out. And then she blamed me for it. She blamed me and it was our people that helped her. I don’t get it. How did you put her there?”
Trump has repeatedly attacked Whitmer before and after the news of the plot. Whitmer wrote in the Atlantic on Tuesday that every time he does so, threats surge.
“Every time the president ramps up this violent rhetoric, every time he fires up Twitter to launch another broadside against me, my family and I see a surge of vicious attacks sent our way,” she wrote. “This is no coincidence, and the President knows it. He is sowing division and putting leaders, especially women leaders, at risk. And all because he thinks it will help his reelection.”
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Trump on a kidnapping plot against a governor: “I mean, we'll have to see if it's a problem. Right? People are entitled to say maybe it was a problem, maybe it wasn't.” https://t.co/0YboF8uGK4
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 27, 2020
But we can't elect Joe Biden because of norms or something https://t.co/igOUHDivXQ
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 28, 2020
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