“He is been badly maligned and it is a disgrace. That is why I got here out right here,” Trump, who has
faced more than a dozen sexual misconduct allegations and denied them, stated of Herbster throughout his remarks in Greenwood. “It will have been simple for me to say, ‘I am not gonna come.’ I defend my individuals once I know they’re good.”
The total-throated protection got here simply days after
the Nebraska Examiner reported that seven girls, together with Republican state Sen. Julie Slama, had accused Herbster of groping them at political occasions or magnificence pageants, with an extra girl accusing him of kissing her forcibly. In six circumstances, no less than one eyewitness corroborated the ladies’s allegations, the publication reported.
Herbster has denied the allegations, calling them “100% false.” He
filed a lawsuit Friday in opposition to Slama — who says that Herbster reached up her skirt throughout a Republican fundraising dinner in 2019 — and claimed to have suffered “grievous hurt to his status” from her accusation.
Trump on Sunday claimed to have met a number of pals of Herbster who defended him earlier than the previous President took the stage.
“Charles W. Herbster won’t ever bend to the RINOs, the media, or the novel left. That is why they’re doing all the things they’ll to cease him. Malicious costs to derail him lengthy sufficient that the election can go by earlier than the right protection may be put ahead,” the previous President stated.
“However he is already acquired the right protection. He would not even learn about these items. That is the right protection. Charles is a fantastic man. And he is harmless of those despicable costs,” Trump added, with out citing any proof. “I may’ve gotten out of this one actual simple. I may have performed golf. I may have gone to the seaside. And I am right here with Charles W. Herbster.”
The Might 10 gubernatorial main in Nebraska is one in every of a number of upcoming checks for the affect of Trump’s endorsement in GOP primaries. Candidates backed by the previous President are going through aggressive primaries for Home, Senate and governor’s races in Might in a number of states, together with
Ohio,
West Virginia,
North Carolina,
Pennsylvania and
Georgia.
Trump’s speech Sunday lasted practically two hours, and noticed him return to plenty of acquainted subjects together with false claims in regards to the 2020 election. The rally, which was rescheduled following twister warnings on Friday evening, featured a number of speeches from Trump-aligned figures and different GOP candidates.
The previous President was additionally joined by casual advisers David Bossie and Matt Schlapp, and US Rep. Billy Lengthy, a Senate hopeful in Missouri.
“They’re all doing good. They’re all doing good. And let’s examine what occurs,” Trump stated of the candidates he is endorsed.
Herbster isn’t the primary Trump-supported candidate this cycle to face allegations of
mistreatment of women.
In Ohio, Home hopeful Max Miller is going through
allegations of abuse from an ex-girlfriend, former White Home press secretary Stephanie Grisham. Miller has denied the allegations and has filed a defamation go well with in opposition to Grisham. Former soccer star Herschel Walker, who’s working for Senate in Georgia, has been accused of
threatening multiple women over the course of a decade. Walker has spoken of his struggles with psychological sickness, and his marketing campaign has famous that he has gotten assist for the reason that allegedly violent incidents within the early 2000s. He has denied allegations of threats made in no less than two circumstances.
And Trump had endorsed Sean Parnell for Senate in Pennsylvania earlier than the candidate
dropped out of the race in late 2021. Parnell had misplaced a custody combat together with his estranged spouse, who had accused him of committing abusive acts in opposition to her. Parnell has denied the allegations.
CNN’s Michael Warren contributed to this report.
