2024-02-25 23:45:18
Trump tells Joe Biden ‘You’re fired’ as he wins South Carolina Republican primary
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In a rambling victory speech, Donald Trump told Joe Biden “You’re fired” following the former president defeated Nikki Haley in the South Carolina GOP primary.
The former president claimed his fourth straight primary win on Saturday night (24 February).
“We’re going to be up here on 5 November, and we’re going to look at Joe Biden,” Mr Trump said as the crown loudly cheered him.
“He’s destroying our country and we’re gonna say ‘Joe, you’re fired. Get out. Get out, Joe. You’re fired.’”
Earlier in the day, Mr Trump compared himself to Al Capone and said migrants were like Hannibal Lecter claiming they are coming from “insane asylums” during his almost 90-minute meandering and ominous speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
The former president was speaking regarding his anti-Biden messaging efforts on Saturday, saying that “migrant crime” is a “new category of crime”.
He also boasted regarding how he hadn’t stepped down in the face of several indictments and felony charges when other indicted politicians would have.
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Mr Trump said in National Harbor, Maryland on Saturday that “Joe [Biden] and his henchmen have you trapped and it’s an express train barreling toward servitude and to ruin – it’s moving at a speed that Joe doesn’t understand because Joe … I don’t think he knows what the hell’s going on, to be honest with you, but he’s surrounded by some very bad fascists”.
“A vote for Trump is your ticket back to freedom. It’s your passport out of tyranny,” he argued. “And it’s your only escape from Joe Biden and his gang’s fast track to hell. And in many ways, we’re living in hell right now.”
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Trump ‘will rip up every agreement that doesn’t have his name on it’, warns Fiona Hill
The continued presence of Donald Trump on the US political scene has longtime allies concerned over whether the US can be a reliable security partner, former National Intelligence Officer and Trump administration National Security Council official Fiona Hill has said.
Speaking at the Principles First summit, a gathering of anti-Trump and pro-democracy conservatives in Washington, Ms Hill was asked to opine on how Mr Trump would have reacted to the killing of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny on his watch.
She told attendees the twice-impeached, disgraced ex-president, whose performance during a 2018 Helsinki press conference alongside Russian leader Vladimir Putin was so bad that she considered pulling a fire alarm to end it, might actually have reacted negatively to Navalny’s death if he thought it made him look bad.
“It’s really regarding how it reflects on him,” she said.
Oliver O’Connell25 February 2024 22:45
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The former president has yet to officially lock up the party’s nomination but is widely considered to be on the verge of doing so following this weekend’s win in the South Carolina primary, and very favourable polling ahead of Tuesday’s contest in Michigan.
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Here are some of the most bizarre things said even before Donald Trump took to the stage:
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Senator John Thune is endorsing Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican primary, Fox News reports.
The number two Senate Republican said that the South Carolina primary results “make clear” that the former president will be the party’s nominee.
Mr Thune and Mr Trump spoke by phone following the state primary race was called for the former president, the network reports.
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