Donald Trump repeats false election claims, hints at 2024 Presidential run

After returning to Washington on Tuesday after 18 months, Donald Trump delivered a fiery speech and hinted that he might run for President once more in 2024.

During his deal with to the America First Policy Institute, Trump repeated his false claims that he received the 2020 election and denounced the House committee investigation into the January 6 assault on the US Capitol by his supporters because the work of “political hacks and thugs.”

“I always say I ran the first time and I won, then I ran a second time and I did much better,” Trump mentioned, including, “We may just have to do it again. We have to straighten out our country.”

The 76-year-old former US President stopped in need of declaring his candidacy, however laid out what he believed ought to be the priorities for the “next Republican president.”

“I look forward to laying out many more details in the weeks and months to come,” Trump added.

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He additional mentioned, “If I renounced my beliefs, if I agreed to stay silent, if I stayed at home and just took it easy, the persecution of Donald Trump would stop immediately. But that’s not what I will do. I can’t do that.”

Trump’s 90-minute deal with echoed lots of the themes of his victorious 2016 marketing campaign, together with unlawful immigration and crime.

MIKE PENCE LIKELY TO CONTEST AGAIN

Several hours earlier than Trump took the stage on the right-wing America First Policy Institute, his former vice chairman, Mike Pence, who can be contemplating a White House run in 2024, addressed a special conservative viewers in Washington.

Speaking at Young America’s Foundation convention, Pence mentioned Americans should look to the long run, not the previous and performed down variations with Trump.

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“Elections are about the future,” Pence mentioned, including, “I came today not to look backwards but to look forward.”

‘CESSPOOL OF CRIME’

Donald Trump lashed out repeatedly at US President Joe Biden, blaming him for the nation’s ills. “We are a nation in decline,” he mentioned. “We are a failing nation.”

“Inflation is the highest in 49 years,” Trump mentioned, including, “Gas prices have reached the highest in the history of our country.”

He accused Biden of permitting an “invasion” by tens of millions of migrants crossing the southern border.

“Other countries very happily send all of their criminals now through our open border into the United States,” he mentioned.

“The next Republican president must immediately implement every aspect of the Trump agenda that achieved the most secure border in history,” he mentioned.

Trump mentioned the United States “is now a cesspool of crime.”

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“We have blood, death and suffering on a scale once unthinkable,” he mentioned. “Democrat-run cities are setting all-time murder records.”

He accused Biden of getting “surrendered in Afghanistan,” and permitting Russia to invade Ukraine.

“It would never ever, ever have happened if I was your commander-in-chief,” he mentioned.

Since taking his final Air Force One flight from Washington to Florida on January 20 final 12 months, Trump has remained the nation’s most polarizing determine, persevering with his unprecedented marketing campaign to sow doubts about his 2020 election loss to Biden.

For weeks, Washington has been riveted by hearings in Congress concerning the January 6 storming of the Capitol by a Trump mob and his makes an attempt to overturn the election.

With Biden’s approval ranking at the moment beneath 40 % and Democrats forecasted to lose management of Congress within the November midterm elections, Trump is seemingly bullish that he might trip the Republican wave all the best way to the White House in 2024.

On the Democratic facet, fury at Trump can be offering power within the run-up to the midterms.

The House committee hearings have laid out proof that Trump oversaw nothing lower than an try to interrupt US democracy, first by way of attempting to rig electoral procedures behind the scenes and at last in encouraging a mob to assault legislators certifying his loss.

Facing chatter that at 79 he’s too previous to be excited about searching for a second time period in 2024, Biden says the specter of one other Trump candidacy is one in every of his fundamental motivations for operating once more.

The president took purpose at his predecessor after Trump’s speech, tweeting: “Call me old fashioned, but I don’t think inciting a mob that attacks a police officer is ‘respect for the law.'”

“You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-cop — or pro-democracy, or pro-American,” Biden added.

(With inputs from AFP)

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