Trump forced to cut Pennsylvania town hall short after multiple audience members experience health emergencies

OAKS, Pa.— Former President Donald Trump vowed to make housing, energy and groceries more affordable at a town hall Monday night in the country’s largest swing state before ending the event early after multiple audience members experienced health emergencies.

Trump, 78, blasted Vice President Kamala Harris for presiding over high interest rates and inflation that hiked consumer prices about 21% since President Biden took office — before calling off the forum in the Philadelphia suburbs as overheated attendees in the packed space were taken away.“Let’s make this a musical fest,” Trump improvised — calling on his staff to blast opera icon Luciano Pavarotti’s “Ave Maria” and other songs before leaving the stage with a call-out to his supporters to turn out and vote.“We win the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we are in clover.And then we’re going to fix our country.

And we’re going to fix it fast,” Trump encouraged his listeners after only taking a few of their questions.The much-hyped event initially went sideways when attendees heard a loud thud of what sounded like someone falling from bleachers — before a heavyset middle-aged man was wheeled out on a stretcher with his shirt cut open.Minutes later, Trump was prevented from answering a question by more attendees shouting for medics.The ex-president asked for the facility’s doors to be opened, but said later they could not be left ajar due to security concerns — as he and South Dakota Gov.Kristi Noem, the event’s emcee, speculated that inflation had made air conditioning too expensive for the facility’s operators.Trump outlined some, but not all, of his economic platform as he courted suburban voters in Pennsylvania’s third-most-populous Montgomery County, which he lost by large margins in both 2016 and 2020, as statewide polls show him neck-and-neck with Harris, 59.If he returns to the White House — “You’re going to buy that house, and you’re going to pay two and a hal...