ABC Blows Up Kamala’s Narrative, Praises Trump For Turning Event Into ‘Intimate Concert’ After Medical Emergencies

Following two medical emergencies at a Trump town hall Monday night, the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris zeroed in on his response as a sign of mental decline. ABC News blew up that narrative shortly after, saying the musical atmosphere was more lively than ever and nothing about Trump’s quick-witted response was out of the ordinary.

President Trump was about 30 minutes into a town hall in the western Philadelphia suburb of Oaks, Pennsylvania, when the heated atmosphere at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center and Fairgrounds caused two people to faint in a matter of minutes. As first responders attended to them, a sizable crowd broke out into a spontaneous rendition of “God Bless America,” according to ABC News. Trump then requested technicians to play “Ave Maria” over the speaker system. In a statement, campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt defended the Republican’s reaction. “The safety and well-being of President Trump’s supporters is always his top priority,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s campaign press secretary, said in a statement to ABC News after the event. “The two individuals who fainted were immediately given medical attention. As President Trump said tonight, they are great patriots,” Leavitt said in a statement.

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Trump also requested that doors to the facility be opened to let in the October breeze, but security said that wasn’t possible due to risks of unauthorized entries. “Open the doors. I wish we could open those doors to outside,” Trump said at the time. “For security reasons, they can’t. But you know what I suggest? Open them. Because anybody comes through those doors, you know what’s going to happen to them.”

After the emergencies, Trump stood on stage for about 45 minutes, not taking questions and standing while songs by some of his favorite artists, including James Brown and opera singer Pavarotti, played overhead. “Many stayed for what became an impromptu indoor concert,” an ABC reporter said of the event. ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran said Trump, after pledging to shut the southern border, end the war in Ukraine, lower grocery prices, and bring inflation down to 2%, “kept DJing, and most of his supporters stayed for another 30 minutes.” And while “certain corners” of social media described the incident as strange, “inside that hall, people were having a good time. What can I tell you?” Moran added. “It did not seem out of the ordinary. It seemed almost intimate. And at the time Trump did something he rarely does. He came down off the stage and mingled with his supporters. He was signing autographs and shaking hands.”

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