President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams would take away all guns from the people of the state.
“Stacey and her friends will get rid of it,” Trump said of the Second Amendment.
Abrams has not said she would want to abolish the Second Amendment. She has said, however, that she supports an assault weapons ban in Georgia.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning, Abrams said she wanted “common-sense gun safety legislation.”
“I am happy to work with the legislature to figure out how we make an assault weapons ban work,” Abrams said.
Trump went on to claim, without evidence, that electing Abrams would turn the state of Georgia into the nation of Venezuela.
Trump also said Sunday that he used to be friends with Oprah Winfrey, who went to Georgia to campaign for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams ahead of Tuesday’s election.
“And (Abrams) brought Oprah here to help her,” Trump said. “Oprah was a friend of mine until I ran for office,” he continued, adding, “once I ran for office, we diverged slightly.”
Trump said Winfrey “has been down to Mar-a-Lago,” and before he ran for office, “we did very well, we had a good relationship, and I like Oprah.”
Trump claimed in the last week of Oprah’s show the media mogul interviewed “her five most important people, I assume,” and said at the rally he was one of those people. He has previously made this claim. But according to Oprah’s website, Trump appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in an episode that originally aired February 7, 2011, and the last episode of the show aired months later, on May 25, 2011.
“I think they’re trying to burn the tape,” Trump said.
Trump also appeared on Oprah’s show in 1988.
“Oprah was here to endorse Stacey and I’m here to endorse Brian. And you know what? I hope you’re going to listen to my endorsement.”
The president also continued to use the contentious confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh in an effort to rally voters to support Republican candidates.
He used the allegedly recanted claim of a little-known accuser to question the credibility of Kavanaugh’s other accusers without mentioning them by name.
The allegation he referred to received little to no attention, unlike the allegation from Christine Blasey Ford, who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions about her accusations of sexual assault against the judge. Kavanaugh has denied Ford’s allegations.
“A woman who accused then-Judge Kavanaugh of horrible, horrible crimes admitted that actually she never met Judge Kavanaugh or Brett Kavanaugh or Kavanaugh period. Never met him. Never saw him,” Trump said of the little-known accuser on Sunday. “It was a total lie. She made up the story, and she was forced to admit it.”
The crowd then broke out in “lock her up” chants.
CNN’s Sarah Westwood, Eli Watkins, Jeremy Diamond and Veronica Stracqualursi contributed to this report.
