![]() ![]() But at the campaign launch, he took a different tack. So in some ways sending me was … they were kind of throwing me a bone, I think.”Īt Trump’s later campaign rallies he would play music by the Rolling Stones, Queen and Neil Young – each of whom asked him to stop doing so. “I, at the time, was a very junior reporter and I was based in New York. In 2015 she was a junior reporter for Time magazine, keen to get involved in coverage of the presidential election. “There was a lot of just random curiosity happening.”Ĭharlotte Alter was far from a veteran political correspondent when she covered Trump’s launch. “There were some people who lived in the building who had come down, and then there were just a lot of people just kind of from off the street who had come in to see it,” she said. Wise, now a reporting fellow for WAMU radio’s Guns and America project, remembers it being an unusual audience. “We are looking to cast people for the event to wear T-shirts and carry signs and help cheer him in support of his announcement,” read the casting call. ![]() In the days following Trump’s announcement, it emerged that the Trump campaign had paid people $50 to attend the event. It was one of my first assignments out of the office.” Wise said: “I was an intern at Reuters at the time. Photograph: Christopher Gregory/Getty Images Donald Trump announces his candidacy on that day in 2015. ![]()
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