Invoking a nation on its knees, the former president of the United States said that Americans were in the midst of “an epic struggle” to save their country “from people who hate it”.
By Le Figaro with AFP
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As the 2024 presidential election approaches, Donald Trump warned on Saturday March 4 that he was the only candidate capable of saving United States Democrats”warriors” as well as “fanatics and foolsof the Republican Party, during the annual high mass of American conservatives gathered in Washington.
Invoking a nation on its knees, the former president of the United States said that Americans are at the heart of “an epic struggle to save our country from the people who hate it“, on the last day of CPAC, a major political convention organized this week in the suburbs of Washington. Donald Trumpwho formalized his candidacy in November for the presidential election next year, spoke for almost an hour and forty, sparing no one, including his own camp.
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“A Third World War”
«We had a Republican party run by freaks, neo-conservatives, globalists, bigoted open borders and fools“, he estimated, citing by name several luminaries of the party.
American voters, Trump said, are tired of “political dynasties rooted in both parties (Republican and Democrat, Ed), rotten special interests, politicians in love with China» and supporters of «endless foreign wars.» «We’re gonna have a third world war if something doesn’t happen soon“, he warned following openly disapproving US aid to Ukraine.
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«I am the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent World War III“, assured the ex-president, defeated by Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. CPAC was until recently the main gathering of conservative leaders in the United States, but it was entirely swallowed up by the movement of far right of Donald Trump,Make America Great Againwith experts now calling the event a “GO to palooza».
Griefs
«We’ll finish what we started“, said Donald Trump to the crowd, who in response sang “Four more years, four more years!“. The 2023 edition of CPAC was marked by many speeches from some of the most committed Trumpists in the country, even if many potential candidates for 2024 and Republican leaders skipped the convention.
If the relevance of this gathering is not unanimous among the conservatives, to the point that certain interventions were almost deserted, the rows of the room were well filled during the speech of Donald Trump.
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Essentially, the ex-president repeated the same litany of conspiracy theories regarding voter fraud and American justice, acquired according to him at the “radical left“, which he dusts off at each public appearance. At CPAC, hats, flags, mugs and other items were on sale. Goodies almost all exclusively aimed at Trump loyalists.
“I am your voice”
Avant speaking out of Donald Trump, many speakers have succeeded on stage to extol their Christian principles and shell, over the course of their speeches, conspiracy theories and anti-transgender rhetoric. Republican Florida Governor Ron De Santis and Donald Trump’s former Vice President Mike Pence skipped the event, sparing themselves boos from the former president’s fans .
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But the crowd repeatedly heckled her only declared Republican rival in the race for the White House, Nikki Haley, during and following her appearance at the convention on Friday. “It won’t be a fair election“Trumpist conspiracy entrepreneur Mike Lindell told AFP of the 2024 presidential election.
«But when 90% of the people in this country want Donald Trump, he should win anyway, even with a crooked election.“, he added. Before taking the stage, Trump said he had won the convention’s opinion poll of Republican leaders, with 62% of the vote. Far ahead of his rival Ron De Santis, who only won 20% of the vote. “In 2016 I declared: I am your voice. Today I add: I am your warrior. I am your righteousness. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution“Launched Donald Trump in front of a packed house.
