The former president has his sights set on returning to the White House, but the Justice Department is investigating his role in trying to change election results
Donald Trump’s dystopian and apocalyptic world returns. Like the day he was sworn in, at the Capitol that his hosts would eventually desecrate, yesterday he landed in Washington for the first time since leaving the White House, promising the “American carnage” he would do in even more emphatic terms than in 2017: “Our country is going to hell soon,” he warned yesterday.
To win the election a second time, it is not enough to exploit galloping inflation, the astronomical price of gasoline or the immobility of Congress. In his first public speech in the capital since Jan. 6, in which he lit the flame of the insurgency, Trump described Democrat-ruled cities as “war zones” ruled by “drug addicts and vagabonds,” with streets “plagued with syringes and drenched in the blood of innocent victims” in which members of “satanic” sects abuse children released from prison on bail.
Its prescription, the death penalty for drug dealers, Philippine style, more money for the police, strict prison terms for undocumented immigrants, driving vagrants to the outskirts of cities and bringing back some of the most controversial police tactics, such as stopping and frisking without the need for a to prove a crime.
“And now some will say that’s terrible. No, what’s terrible is what’s happening now,” he told the loyal audience of supporters and former supporters who attended the America First Agenda convention, the think tank that has promoted its nationalism. political doctrine has changed.
At the time, the Washington Post newspaper published exclusively that the Justice Department investigating the January 6 uprising is questioning witnesses who testify before a grand jury in Trump’s attempt to replace the states’ legitimate voters. polls of others loyal to their cause, in what would have been a coup. Never in US history has a former president been charged with a crime, but prosecutor Merrick Garland has promised to follow the crime trail without fear of what is found. “What they want is to prevent me from going back to work for all of you,” Trump replied from the pulpit.
He was surrounded by the same events he left with. The commission investigating the January 6 insurgency closed its season of public hearings on Thursday with the most devastating revelations: It has been proven beyond any doubt that Trump didn’t lift a finger for more than three hours to checkmate the violence he witnessed. Stop Capitol. That day, four of his followers died. In the next five officers died of physical or emotional injuries from those events (four committed suicide) and 140 officers were injured. Meanwhile, the commander-in-chief was watching television.
“Donald Trump lacked the courage to act,” President Joe Biden, who rarely talks about his successor, publicly criticized him on Monday. “The brave men in blue across the country must never forget that. You can’t be pro-insurgency and pro-police at the same time,” he said stoned in a speech to the Executive Conference of the National Organization of African-American Law Enforcement Agents.
Polls say the explosive public hearings on Jan. 6 changed few people’s minds — just 7% of Republicans now believe it was more serious than they thought, according to a study commissioned by USA Today from Suffolk University — but the papers of Suffolk University the Rupert Murdoch group gave the first signs of distancing itself from the former president. “Trump’s silence is the most incriminating,” headlined the New York Post, a favorite of his followers. The paper is still not convinced that Trump instigated the violence that took place that day, but believes it has become crystal clear “in recent days” that “Trump did not lift a finger to stop the violence that followed.” even though he was the only one who could. “It was a quiet provocation,” he concluded. “His sole focus that day was to find all means to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, regardless of the damned consequences. There is no other explanation.”
Whoever expected an apology from the former president yesterday is that he does not know him. Trump has doubled down on his allegations of fraud as he remains focused on regaining power. According to all sources close to him, he has already decided to run for re-election in 2024. The only question is when he will announce it. The GOP barons want him to wait until after the midterm parliamentary elections, which will be held in November, as tradition dictates, but Trump is burning with the desire to get the attention of the cameras back. The tycoon believes that the sooner he announces it, the greater his advantage will be. And if the courts are chasing him mid-campaign, he can always claim it’s a “deep state” maneuver to prevent it. So he promises to start “draining the swamp” so that no one gets in his way.
However, the party apparatus fears that his return to the scene will change the course of the elections, with which they hope to regain control of Congress. The terrain is favorable. With inflation hitting 40-year records, gasoline prices skyrocketing and President Biden’s popularity among the lowest in history, the last thing they want is to change the focus of the conversation.
For that, “to look forward rather than backward,” Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Washington yesterday on a completely different plane, whom Trump blames for having had to leave power for failing to certify the election results. prevented. 2021. “Hang Mike Pence!” the crowd shouted as they searched for him through the corridors of the Capitol. That day, members of his entourage saw death so close that they even said goodbye to their family and friends over the radio.
What Pence had to say was anticipated almost as much as what Trump would say, but if the latter sticks to the theory of voter fraud that cost him the presidency, Pence just wants to return to the White House full steam ahead. Both have criss-crossed the country from Iowa to Arizona, campaigning unofficially long before announcing their candidacy. Pence invokes genuine conservatism and calls for the party’s union as a necessary formula to win the election and takes credit for appointing the more than 300 federal judges who, along with those of the Supreme Court, will end of the sentence that protected abortion.
“I don’t think the president and I disagree about the agenda, just the focus we put on it,” he said conciliatingly yesterday. “Elections are about the future, I will not dwell on the past,” he promised. That is left to Trump and the choice of the voters.
Source: La Verdad
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