Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is joining the growing list of Democrats who are endorsing former President Donald Trump in the race to the White House.
Speaking at a Lincoln Day dinner hosted by the Oakland County Republican Party, Kilpatrick praised Trump and gave a wake-up call to Democrat voters to put their trust in the GOP nominee to turn the country around.
“I’m definitely voting for President Trump,” Kilpatrick told those gathered. “I just think he’s the best candidate. I mean, it’s not even close to me. I know there’s a lot of bright lights and a lot of stuff propping Vice President (Kamala) Harris up, but as a former executive in a political job, it matters who you send into those rooms.”
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The former Democrat mayor shared his gratitude to Trump for commuting his prison sentence after he was sentenced in 2013 to 28 years in prison for fraud and racketeering, among other charges. Trump commuted Kilpatrick’s sentence to time served in 2021, days before he was to leave office after a suggestion from Alice Johnson whom the then-president had also freed from prison.
“One of the things I love about him is that he never asked me for anything, he was happy to do it,” Kilpatrick said.
He likened Trump to a firefighter who rescued his family from a burning building, crediting him with saving his life as his release from prison, where he had undergone a religious transformation, changed the direction of his life.
“It’s like this. My house was on fire. My wife and all my children were in it, we couldn’t get out,” Kilpatrick said. “Firefighter kicked in the front door, he ran upstairs, he dragged me at 300 lbs out the door. He grabbed my wife, grabbed her out and got all my kids out. Got us on the front lawn and the firefighter pulled up his mask and it was Donald Trump!”
Though he hasn’t run away from his past, Kilpatrick explained that he was moving forward, telling the crowd that he is neither a Democrat nor Republican but considers himself “radically Independent.”
“We have come to a place where this is not about warm and fuzzy feelings anymore,” he told the crowd of about 300 people.
“I want Trump in the room when Vladimir Putin shows up,” he said to applause. “I want Trump in the room if Xi from China walks into the room. I want Trump in the room when Kim Jong Un comes to play.”
In his rousing speech, which earned him a standing ovation, he declared that in “the times that we live in right now, we need somebody with the personality, the vigor, the business acumen, and the strength of Donald Trump.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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