WASHINGTON – Former US President Donald trump returned to center stage on Sunday, using a conservative spree to quell speculation that he would form a new political team while reasserting his dominance over the Republican Party and implicitly stating that he would run for the White House in 2024.
“Do you miss me already?” Trump asked a crowd that he adored him at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, at the beginning of his first political speech since leaving the White House. He went on to demonstrate his control over the party by publicly naming 17 Republican lawmakers, seven senators, and ten representatives, who voted to impeach him and demand that they be purged from the party.
“We are not starting new parties. We have the Republican Party … Wouldn’t that be great? Let’s start a new party, split our vote, so you can never win. No, we are not interested in that,” he told the cheering crowd as he taunted them about a third run for the White House.
“With your help we will regain the House, we will win the Senate, and then a Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House. And I wonder who is that … who, who, who is that. “I wonder,” Trump said in the strongest indication that he will run again in 2024.
In a 90-minute speech, Trump continued to lie about winning the 2020 election that he decisively lost, telling his supporters: Democratic party) just lost the White House. But who knows, he might even decide to beat them a third time. ”
Unsurprisingly, he took on his successor, claiming that Joe Biden had “the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history.” He also attacked the US. Supreme Court, blaming him for not reversing the election in their favor, and lamenting that “they did not have the courage, the Supreme Court … should be ashamed of what they have done to our country.”
The former president, who has also been expelled from social media platforms, lashed out at Big Tech, accusing it of suppressing freedom of expression and demanding action to control them.
“All the measures of electoral integrity in the world will mean nothing if we do not have freedom of expression. If Republicans can be censured for speaking the truth and denouncing corruption, we will not have democracy and we will only have left tyranny,” he said, asking to break the big technological monopolies.
Trump also criticized his successor for rejoining the “very unfair” Paris Agreement, while making the well-known false claim that countries like China and India are bigger polluters than the United States.
“What good is it when we are clean, but China is not, Russia is not and India is not. So they are fuming, you know the world is actually a small part of the universe, right?” Trump rambled on before his enthusiastic nativist supporters who hailed him as a messiah. Measured per capita, the United States is by far the world’s largest polluter.
On video: Trump names Republican impeachment supporters
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