HENDERSON, Nev. — Thousands of Trump supporters, the vast majority of them forgoing face masks, packed inside a manufacturing plant on Sunday night in a Las Vegas suburb, where President Trump brashly ignored a state directive limiting indoor gatherings to under 50 people. There were no signs of any attempts at social distancing inside the venue. Attendees wearing red MAGA caps sat in white folding chairs crammed together on the floor of the Xtreme Manufacturing plant, which said on its website that it had “restricted meetings and gatherings to no more than 10 people in large areas.”In his remarks, Mr. Trump unloaded his regular, inaccurate onslaught against former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., falsely accusing him of waging a “dangerous war on the police” and claiming that “he’s shot and everybody knows it.”The raucous crowd appeared to relish the performance, at one point chanting “all lives matter” when a protester tried to disrupt the president’s speech.

Source: New York Times September 14, 2020 04:43 UTC