During his campaign in Iowa, Donald Trump assured on Saturday that he will “win” the November presidential elections against Joe Biden, who he considers the “worst” president of the United States, a country “in decline” and on the brink of the abyss. “Third World war”.
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Exactly three years after the assault on the Capitol, the former president held two assemblies in the small Midwestern state, which organizes its caucuses on Monday 15 January and thus kicks off the 2024 Republican primaries, giving him half an advantage. century an enormous weight in the presidential campaign.
The Republican billionaire, who dreams of being re-elected in November and returning to the White House on Jan. 20, 2025 despite his four criminal charges, will face voters in eight days for the first time since his hasty departure from the presidency on Jan. 20. , 2021.
Exactly three years after the unprecedented attack on the headquarters of Congress in Washington by his supporters on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump, in a rambling speech that lasted more than two hours in Newton, near the regional capital Des Moines, assured that would “win for the third time” the presidential elections in November.
Elected in November 2016 and defeated four years later, the Republican tribune believes that the victory in these elections was “stolen” from him by the Democrat Joe Biden, 81 years old, who he once again called “Joe-the-Scrapule” and of whom he’s the age teased.
Describing Joe Biden as the “worst” president in US history, Donald Trump, 77, who has turned American democracy upside down in less than ten years, lamented that the world’s leading power is “in decline”.
He even estimated that his country was risking a “Third World War” and a “Depression” like in the 1930s and warned a few hundred enthusiastic MAGA (“Make America Great Again”) supporters in a room in Newton: “It’s the our last chance to save America.
Ironically over warnings from Democrats and the media in recent months about the risk of a Trump “dictatorship” in the event of a second term, the billionaire proclaimed: “I am a dictator.”
The day before, in an election speech in Pennsylvania focused on the defense of “democracy”, Joe Biden had compared his rival’s rhetoric to that of “Nazi Germany”.
Despite his legal failures and the risk of prison for his attempts to reverse the results of the November 2020 presidential election, polls give Donald Trump 60% of the Republican vote against his main opponents, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis.
He also didn’t hold back from poking fun at his two Republican competitors.
In Iowa and many conservative states around the country, the septuagenarian has a very loyal base that puts aside his escapades and legal problems.
The attack on the Capitol, the temple of American democracy, remains the subject of deep division in the United States: a quarter of Americans and 44% of Trumpist voters believe, without evidence, that the federal police (FBI) were involved in the attack. originally, according to a survey by the Washington Post and the University of Maryland.
The FBI itself announced on Saturday the arrest of three people in Florida for their participation in the January 6 murder. In a 35-month ongoing investigation, authorities have charged more than 1,200 people in nearly all 50 states. More than half were convicted.
For Trump they are “hostages”.
For three years he has denied having incited his supporters to the insurrection – of which new images of violence were broadcast on television on Saturday – and to the attack on Congress where Joe Biden’s victory was certified on January 6, 2021.
So, to judge the pressure he would have exerted to try to overturn the results, a criminal trial will have to begin in Washington on March 4.
This will happen on the eve of one of the biggest deadlines of the Republican primaries: “Super Tuesday” in fifteen states: Texas, California… but also Colorado and Maine.
The latter two states declared him ineligible for the presidency in December due to his behavior on January 6, 2021. The Supreme Court took up the case on Friday, although, pending a ruling in February, Trump’s name remains on the primary ballot .
2024-01-07 01:00:31
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