ABC News host Linsey Davis, who is set to co-moderate the network’s presidential debate in Pennsylvania next month, appeared to suggest Monday night that the former president was headed to a small town in Michigan because of the Ku Klux Klan.

Davis made the smear against Trump while speaking to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer at the Democratic National Convention.

“As you know, former President Donald Trump is expected to go campaign in Howell, Michigan, tomorrow,” Davis said. “Many people are aware that a month ago, in Howell, KKK protesters marched in the streets with the white robes on and suggested that they support Donald Trump.”

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“I’m curious if you make anything about that connection and him going in particular to Howell tomorrow,” Davis continued.

The fact that Davis tried to suggest a connection between Trump and the KKK because he is visiting a town where a dozen fringe activists held a protest weeks ago highlights concerns that Trump had about having a debate on ABC News, given the network’s apparent bias against him.

ABC News announced last week that Davis would co-moderate the network’s presidential debate in Pennsylvania next month with network colleague David Muir.

Howell has a population of more than 10,000 people and it’s located in a swing state that will play a critical role in determining who wins the White House.

Davis’ suggestion that Trump somehow had a “connection” to the KKK comes after someone shot Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania last month. Trump narrowly escaped with his life as he turned his head moments before the gunman opened fire and a bullet pierced his ear.

Left-wing ABC News host Linsey Davis, who is going to moderate the network’s presidential debate between Harris and Trump next month, tries to connect Trump to the KKK

How is this person allowed to be a debate moderator? pic.twitter.com/VSLt0OFtSS

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 20, 2024

The march in the town last month garnered very little media attention. There were approximately a dozen protesters who participated.

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Images of the protesters did not show anyone wearing “white robes,” as Davis claimed. Some of their clothes appeared to have symbols that were associated with white supremacists.

The protesters completely covered their faces, so there was no way of knowing who they were as they held signs that said things like “White Lives Matter,” “End The War On White Children,” and “Fight Against White Replacement.”

Local media said that they chanted “Heil Hitler” and that they expressed support for Trump.

The ABC debate is currently the only one Harris has accepted.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) began yelling during her speech at the DNC on Monday as she seethed at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“We know Trump would sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining his own pockets and greasing palms of his Wall Street friends,” she claimed. “And I, for one, am tired of hearing about how a two-bit union buster thinks of himself as more of a patriot than the woman who fights every single day to lift working people out from under the boots of greed trampling on our way of life.”

Many people on social media were quick to point out that Ocasio-Cortez, who claims she is a fighter for the working class, was the primary reason that Amazon decided to cancel its plans to build a massive headquarters in New York City that would have brought tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars a year in revenue.

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Senior Trump campaign official Tim Murtaugh responded to the clip of AOC on X: “Oh yes, you can see how she’s always filled with joy. Watching AOC with the sound off is the best. She looks furious all the time.”

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AOC: “Trump would sell this country for a dollar to line his own pockets.”

Biden: *”defrauded the United States to enrich his family” according to the @HouseGOP report released this morning* pic.twitter.com/oK7CZBw5Kt

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) August 20, 2024

AOC’s remarks came on the same day that the House Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee, and House Ways and Means Committee released a joint report that concluded there was “overwhelming evidence” that President Joe Biden took part in his family’s foreign business dealings by using his public office “to enrich his family.”

The report further alleged that the Biden family and its associates were paid more than $27 million by foreign individuals or entities since 2014.

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“As Vice President, President Biden actively participated in his conspiracy by, among other things, attending dinners with his family’s foreign business partners and speaking to them by phone, often when being placed on speakerphone by Hunter Biden,” the report states.

It adds, “Foreign money was transmitted to the Biden family through complicated financial transactions. The Biden family laundered funds through intermediate entities and broke up large transactions into numerous smaller transactions.” House Republicans state in their report that in 2014, then-Vice President Biden attended a dinner with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina. Following the dinner, Baturina wired $3.5 million to Hunter Biden’s firm, Rosemont Seneca Thornton.