At a campaign rally in Kentucky on Saturday, President Donald Trump brought up a decades-old criminal case while criticizing how some states handled prisoners during the Covid pandemic, according to Mediaite. He focused on decisions made by former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and compared them to a well-known episode from the 1988 presidential race.
Trump told the crowd that Governor Mike Dukakis had allowed a man named Willie Horton out of prison while running for president. He said Horton then went on to kill three women and rape them in rapid succession. Trump added that Dukakis held a 15-point lead at the time, and that the lead flipped to a double-digit deficit within roughly two days.
