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President Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in Bemidji, Minnesota, on Friday night when news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.
Trump seemed unaware of the news that was sending shockwaves around the country.
“The Supreme Court is so important,” he said, adding, “The next president will get one, two, three or four Supreme Court justices … Many presidents have had none.”
Reporters at the event tweeted that an attendee yelled out “Ginsburg is dead” in an attempt to give Trump a heads up about the fact that Ginsburg, 87, had died of complications from pancreatic cancer.
Video from the scene showed Trump continuing to speak as if he hadn’t the shouts.
"They tend to be appointed young," he said, referring to the Supreme Court justices. "They're there for a long time ... You're going to be stuck for 40 years, 35 years, a long time so this is going to be the most important election."