The former president was set to speak at the rally Friday evening.

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.

    • lewdian69@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      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…

        • lewdian69@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 months ago

          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.

    • Vytle@lemmy.world
      516·
      5 months ago

      Source for Trump being incompetent? I’m not a trump supporter or anything, I just really don’t keep up with news

      • frezik@midwest.social
        61·
        5 months ago

        Source for you not being a Trump supporter? I just really don’t keep up with your day to day life.

        • Vytle@lemmy.world
          23·
          5 months ago

          My source is that im a gay mexican? What the fuck is your problem? i was just asking for some news reports to read up on, which i was provided. Idk why you felt the need to comment at all, this whole exchange was over when Chunk gave me the link. But nooo, stop everything because Frezik, this random fuckin guy who has not been in the conversation up until this point, has yet to share his political opinion. God fucking forbid I want to be informed ig.