{"id":28206,"date":"2020-09-14T07:52:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T11:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=28206"},"modified":"2020-09-14T07:52:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T11:52:31","slug":"lock-him-up-booms-at-nevada-trump-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=28206","title":{"rendered":"“Lock him up!”<\/i><\/b> Booms at Nevada Trump Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A crowd at\u00a0President Trump<\/a><\/span>‘s rally Sunday evening chanted “lock him up” after the president accused his predecessor, former President Obama, of being caught “spying” on the 2016 Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

During the event in Henderson, Nev., Trump told attendees that the former president “got caught spying on my campaign,” referring to longstanding accusations from him and his allies that the investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s contacts with Russia in 2016 was orchestrated by the Obama administration in an attempt to sink his candidacy,\u00a0a claim for which there is no evidence.<\/p>\n

In response, many attendees began chanting “lock him up!”, a riff on the “lock her up” chant the president encouraged during his 2016 run against\u00a0Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(D), during which he alleged that his opponent had committed crimes by operating a private email server as secretary of state.<\/p>\n

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