Sunday March 26, 2023
First campaign appearance Trump railed once morest the judiciary and political opponents
Fables once more of a witch hunt: Donald Trump.
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Former US President Trump spoke for an hour and a half during his first major campaign appearance for the 2024 election. As usual, he portrayed himself as a victim of the judiciary and repeated old allegations.
Former US President Donald Trump has once more railed once morest the judiciary and political opponents in the face of impending indictment. “The new weapon used by runaway Democrats to cheat in elections is the criminal investigation of a candidate,” Trump said on Saturday evening (local time) in the US state of Texas at his first major campaign event with a view to the presidential elections next year. Friends thought he was probably the “most innocent man” in US history, he claimed.
“It was a witch hunt from the start, one bogus investigation follows the next,” Trump said in his speech. The investigations once morest him seemed “as if they came straight out of a horror show in Stalinist Russia”. He accused President Joe Biden’s administration of staging a prosecution to undermine his candidacy for the White House and spoke of demonic forces intent on destroying the country, which threatens to plunge into a lawless abyss if he doesn’t return be elected to the White House. The presidential election will take place in November 2024, and the primaries, in which the two major parties will nominate a candidate, will start next February.
Trump has already officially declared his bid for his party’s presidential candidacy. However, the public prosecutor’s office in New York is investigating the ex-president who was voted out of office because of hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal. An indictment in the case seems increasingly likely and is expected in the near future.
It’s all a ‘witch hunt’ for Trump and his fans
Investigators are concerned with whether Trump may have violated campaign finance laws by making the payments. It would be the first indictment by prosecutors once morest a former US president. The 76-year-old has various other legal construction sites and presents all allegations as politically motivated. With the superlatives typical of him, Trump claimed in Waco that every part of his life was examined like nobody else in US history.
In the audience, spectators held signs with the word “witch hunt” in their hands, Trump’s usual slogan. The song “Justice for all” was played at the beginning of his speech, which lasted regarding an hour and a half. It was sung by a male choir whose members were convicted of their involvement in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. Proceeds from the song will be used to provide legal support to those accused of the violent riots.
Before Trump’s speech, the venue in particular caused a stir. Trump spoke at the airport in the city of Waco, which was the scene of a bloody tragedy 30 years ago and has since been used by right-wing groups in particular as a symbol of alleged state transgressions. At that time, police officers had besieged a sect property for weeks and finally stormed it, which in the end went up in flames. More than 80 cult members died, and four police officers were killed. Critics accused Trump of appearing at a place of pilgrimage for right-wing extremists as a “dop whistle” for extremists, i.e. a subliminal signal that he approved of their attitude. Trump’s team denied that the venue had anything to do with the Waco massacre.
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