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WASHINGTON (AP) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump will seek to return to the political spotlight in a speech to a major gathering of conservatives, a source familiar with his plans said Saturday (Feb.20), as the Republican plots. his post-White House moves.
Trump plans to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on February 28, the last day of their meeting, the source told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
“He will talk about the future of the Republican Party and the Conservative movement. Also expect the 45th president to confront the disastrous amnesty and border policies of President (Joe) Biden,” the source said.
Trump’s tumultuous four years in the White House ended shortly after he was accused of inciting the deadly January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, where lawmakers were gathering to certify Biden’s victory in the November 3 election. .
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After spending two months falsely claiming his electoral defeat was the result of widespread fraud, Trump was acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial after he left office. The 57-43 vote fell short of the two-thirds majority needed for a conviction.
Trump has voiced his anger at the 17 Republicans in the House and Senate who voted to impeach or convict him, and on Tuesday aimed his rhetorical fire at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the highest-ranking Republican-elect in the US. nation.
The loss of the White House to Biden and control of the Senate, which Democrats won in a pair of second-round victories in Georgia’s election last month, has left Republicans nervous as they plot how to regain control of Congress. in 2022.
Trump and McConnell parted ways in the weeks after the November election, and Trump was upset that the Kentucky Republican had recognized Biden as the winner in mid-December. They have not spoken since, a former White House official said this week.
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Trump called McConnell “a severe, sullen and serious political hack” this week and warned that if Republican senators kept him “they would not win again.”
The gap between Trump and McConnell widened when the latter declared after the acquittal of the former president by the Senate that Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for the siege of the Capitol.
Several of the top Republicans who are considered potential candidates for the party’s presidential nomination in 2024 are also expected to speak at CPAC, including Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota.
Two notable Republicans from the Trump administration who are not on the CPAC speakers list are former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Another source told Reuters that Trump had rejected a request from Haley to meet with him recently after she criticized him in a Politico article.
