by Sharon Rondeau
(Aug. 22, 2024) — On Thursday afternoon, 45th President and 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump held an outside press conference at a border station in Cochise County, AZ, where he had announced a visit earlier this week.
While at the podium, he recounted the deaths of Maryland resident and mother of five Rachel Morin, who was murdered last year by an illegal alien; 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray of Houston, TX, kidnapped and assaulted by two illegals in June; Georgia nursing student Laken Riley; and many others.
“Kamala” (Harris), the 2024 Democrat presidential nominee scheduled to officially accept the nomination this evening at the Democrat National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, is responsible for the victims’ deaths, Trump said.
As he spoke, Nungaray’s mother Alexis and uncle stood in back of him, with the uncle holding up an imprinted T-shirt picturing Jocelyn with angel wings and the words, “Forever 12.”
At approximately 3:50 p.m. EDT/12:50 PDT, Trump stepped aside and asked Morin’s mother, who was in attendance following a luncheon with the former president, to speak.
Mourning the death of a “grandbaby” while in Kentucky at the time, Mrs. Morin said she received a phone call from Maryland authorities informing her that Rachel had been found dead in a storm drain after suffering a brutal sexual assault and murder.
Rachel had been running on a path the family frequented and had previously found to be safe, Mrs. Morin said.
Just before 4:00 p.m. EDT/1:00 p.m. local time, Alexis stepped to the microphone and described her ordeal since her daughter’s murder two months ago, revealing Jocelyn’s younger brother continues to ask for her and her struggles to explain his sibling’s absence. Alexis said she will have to spend “the rest of her life” dealing with Jocelyn’s murder.
She urged Americans to consider the tragedy and impact on family members of the many American citizens whose lives have been cut short by illegal-alien crime.
At 4:03 p.m. EDT/1:03 PDT, Neil Cavuto, whose program begins at 4:00 p.m. EDT daily on the Fox News Channel, cut in to the presser to announce that “another potential assassin” was identified by Cochise County officials targeting the former president.
On July 13, a 20-year-old man attempted to murder Trump as he spoke at a campaign rally in Butler, PA, killing 50-year-old Corey Comperatore and wounding two others.
Trump escaped with an injury to his ear which initially bled profusely, giving way to the iconic photo depicting him with his right hand in the air, pumping, as he shouted to his supporters, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
A Secret Service sniper killed the man with one shot, reports said.
Cavuto and his guest, former FBI investigator Bill Daly, briefly discussed that Trump was giving the presser without the presence of bullet-proof glass, as the Secret Service recommended after the July 13 incident and as he utilized at a North Carolina rally on Wednesday. During the segment, a photo of the 66-year-old alleged male potential assassin and resident of Cochise County was displayed on the lower right.
The program returned to the presser, where Trump was taking questions until 4:26 p.m., when it concluded.
Trump was not made aware of the newest threat against his life, he said, prior to wrapping the session.