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Marjorie Taylor-Greene takes the stage at former President Donald Trump and JD Vance's Atlanta rally.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance hold a campaign rally in Atlanta, in the battleground state of Georgia.
A Georgia activist stole the show after being introduced by former President Trump at his rally in Atlanta Saturday.
Trump invited Michaelah Montgomery up on stage toward the end of his speech at the Georgia State University Convocation Center. He introduced Montgomery by explaining he met her at a restaurant this year.
Trump said Montgomery, who attended Clark Atlanta University, had recognized him in public and commended him for funding historically Black colleges and universities.
"She looks at me, says 'It's President Trump. You saved my college.' And I said, 'How the hell do you know that?' ... This one is so smart, so sharp," Trump recalled.
Also, Former president Donald Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin over a prisoner swap that took place this week, saying the Russian strongman had outsmarted U.S. officials as part of the largest such deal since the end of the Cold War.
At a rally here on Saturday, Trump did not mention any of the American prisoners who were released in the deal — including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was imprisoned for more than a year on charges the U.S. government has denounced as fabricated. In his previous comments on the deal, he did not mention any of the prisoners by name either, only criticizing the U.S. government.
“I’d like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for having made yet another great deal. … We have 59 hostages, I never paid anything. … Boy, we make some horrible, horrible deals. It’s nice to say we got ‘em back, but does that set a bad precedent,” Trump said.
He did not mention any of the U.S. officials who worked on the deal for months.
Trump had been reluctant to speak about Gershkovich for about the first year of the reporter’s detention but finally called for his release in May. The former president has repeatedly bragged about his close relationship with Putin, but also says that Putin respects him and would have never invaded Ukraine if Trump was president.
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