In his first campaign event since the apparent assassination attempt on Sunday, former President Donald Trump touted his economic policies and suggested that his “consequential” agenda could be the reason he’s been “shot at.”

Trump sat down for a town hall event with Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in front of a large crowd in Flint, Michigan, and the former president said he has been saddened to see the decline of the automotive industry in the Detroit and Flint area — what was known as the car manufacturing capital of the world.

The Republican nominee said the U.S. needs to manufacture more vehicles in the country instead of in Mexico and China. He then promised the crowd of Michiganders that his administration would put a 200% tariff on vehicles manufactured outside of the U.S.

“They think they’re going to make their cars there and they’re going to sell them across our line and we’re going to take them and we’re not going to charge them tax. We’re going to charge them. I’m telling you right now, we’re putting a 200% tariff on them, which means they’re unsellable,” Trump said.

“And then you wonder why I get shot at,” he added. “You know, only consequential presidents get shot at. … But you have to do what you have to do. You have to be brave. Otherwise, you’re not going to have a country left.”

The former president was targeted in another apparent assassination attempt on Sunday when a 58-year-old man hid out for 12 hours near Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, allegedly to take a shot at him. Sunday’s assassination attempt came just two months after Trump was shot in the ear during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Trump focused on the economy and trade throughout much of his town hall event in Flint. Michigan remains a vital toss-up state in the race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris with the RealClearPolitics average of polling showing Harris leading by less than 1 percentage point. The former president’s main message to Michigan voters during the town hall was clear: a vote for him meant a vote to bring industry and jobs back to the Great Lakes State.

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“We are going to bring so many auto plants into our country. You are going to be as big or bigger than you were 50 years ago,” Trump said to the applause of the crowd.

“I think it’s safe to say that Michigan is happy that you’re going to be president again,” Sanders told him.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IN MICHIGAN: “We are going to bring so many auto plants into our country. You are going to be as big or BIGGER than you were 50 years ago.” pic.twitter.com/fBcq6NHK1e

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 17, 2024

Thousands of Hezbollah terrorists were injured on Tuesday during one of the most efficient large-scale military attacks in the history of warfare.

Israel reportedly infiltrated Hezbollah’s supply chain and rigged thousands of pagers with pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a highly explosive material, which was then remotely detonated simultaneously.

The pagers were programmed to beep for several seconds before exploding, The New York Times reported.

A tiny bit of explosive material was placed in each pager next to the battery and was detonated with a switch that allowed the bomb to be triggered remotely.

The pagers were detonated at 3:30 p.m. in Lebanon when the terrorists received a message that appeared as though it was coming from Hezbollah’s leadership, The Times reported.

Approximately 4,000 were injured, 500 of whom were listed in critical condition, and at least 11 were killed. Among the 11 that have so far been announced as dead, at 10 were Hezbollah terrorists.

The pagers were imported months ago from a Taiwan, but were only recently given to the Hezbollah terrorists, reports said. A small amount of explosive material had been placed in each device before it ever reached Lebanon.

According to Sky News Arabia; Mossad was able to Inject a Compound of Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) into the Batteries of the New Encrypted Pagers that Hezbollah began using around February, before they even arrived in the Hands of Hezbollah Members, allowing them to… pic.twitter.com/K6CST3K2DU

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 17, 2024

Israel’s original plan was to detonate the pagers in the event that it entered a full blown war with Hezbollah so that it would have a clear advantage at the outset of fighting, Al-Monitor reported.

However, Israel was forced to detonate the pagers quickly after it learned that two Hezbollah members figured out that the pagers had been breached.

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When the first member of Hezbollah suspected foul play several days ago, he was killed. When the second member figured out that the devices had been compromised, Israel was forced to make a decision.

Hezbollah had their fighters switch to using pagers because they believed that Israel was monitoring their cell phone communications.

The U.S. was not alerted to the plan, presumably because Israel cannot trust the pro-Iran Biden-Harris administration.