He former US president Donald Trump officially launched his election campaign in Iowa with rallies in which he promised to win “for the third time”, just three years after his supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington.
The small central-western state will hold electoral assemblies on Monday, January 15, which will begin the republican primaries towards the November 2024 elections, which now have their greatest weight in half a century.
The Republican leader, who dreams of being re-elected in November and returning to the White House on January 20, 2025, despite facing four criminal cases, will face voters in eight days for the first time since his tempestuous departure from the presidency of USA in 2021.
In a lengthy two-hour speech to his supporters on Saturday in the town of Newton, Trump did not delve into the events on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the headquarters of the Congress fueled by his false claims of electoral fraud, but described those imprisoned as “hostages” for their participation in the events.
Donald Trump promised that if elected, he will pardon many
trump made fun of Democratic President Joe Bidenhis most likely rival in the November elections, and said that the president has been responsible for the country’s economic decline and has encouraged chaos on its borders, while failing to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“I would have absolutely stopped Putin”said.
In addition, Trump warned of World War III if Biden is re-electedand added: “This is our last chance to save USA“.
Without ever giving up the narrative that he won the 2020 election, trump He declared that in November he will win “for the third time.”
Overwhelming leader in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, trump He was impeached for inciting the insurrection and faces multiple felony charges for his conduct before and during that episode.
trump has described January 6 as “a beautiful day” and has made the “great patriots” and “hostages” imprisoned for the riots a cause célèbre.
Bidenwho harshly criticized trump in a speech on Friday, has no public events planned this weekend, according to the White House.
Despite his legal setbacks in court and the risk of going to prison for his attempts to overturn the results of the November 2020 presidential election, polls attribute trump 60% of the vote in the Republican internal race against her main opponents, the former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley and the governor of the state of Florida, Ron DeSantis.
The attack on the headquarters of Congress, one of the main sources of division in the United States
But the attack on the headquarters of the Congress three years ago, remains an issue of deep division in USA: a quarter of American voters and 44% of Trump voters think, without evidence, that the federal law enforcement agency (FBI) is at the origin of the incident, according to a joint survey conducted by The Washington Post and the University of Maryland.
The House of Representativesthen controlled by Democrats, challenged trump for inciting violence, related to the deaths of five police officers and several rioters, although he was acquitted by his allies in the Senate.
Assault on the Capitol
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This same Saturday FBI announced the arrest in Florida (southeast) of three people for their participation in those incidents that left four dead. In 35 months of extensive investigation – still ongoing – authorities have charged more than 1,200 people and more than half were convicted.
“trump and his supporters MAGA (the “Make America Great Again” movement -Do to USA big again-) not only tolerate political violence but laugh at it,” he lamented on Friday Biden.
Donald Trump denies inciting the attack on the Capitol
But trump denies having incited his followers to attack the Capitolalthough he still considers that the 2020 elections were “stolen” from him.
To determine the responsibility and pressure that he would have exerted to try to reverse the electoral results, a criminal trial must begin on March 4 in Washington.
It will be on the eve of one of the most important deadlines of the Republican primaries: “Super Tuesday” in fifteen states: Texas, California, Colorado and Maine among others.
Those last two states declared him ineligible for the presidency in December, assigning him responsibility for the January 2021 actions.
The Supreme Court took up this matter on Friday, although, pending a decision in February, the name trump is still on the voting lists for the Republican primaries.
Source: Ambito
