We will take back the White House in 2024, declared former US President Donald Trump at a political rally in Florence, Arizona, on Saturday evening local time.
At the "Save America" event, which lasted almost two hours, the former president - referring to the mid-term elections due in November this year - stated that it is important for the Republicans to regain the majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. "There's a big red wave starting here in Arizona and it's going to sweep across this country," he said. The color red is the color of the Republican Party.
Although Trump did not announce that he would run for president again in 2024, he encouraged people to go to the polls anyway. “I think 2024 will be even more important, (but) this year (2022) we're going to take back the House, we're going to take back the Senate, and we're going to take back America. This is very important. And we're going to take back the White House in 2024." said Donald Trump.
"People are hungry for the truth: they want their country back," said Trump, who in his speech again referred to the 2020 election frauds he mentioned several times before. "We've always been considered a beautiful country with fair elections, and now we're a laughing stock in many ways around the world," he said.
The former Republican president also criticized a part of the media, which, as he said, calls the accusations related to electoral fraud "unfounded" and "a big lie", but at the same time "continues to refuse to talk about it". According to Trump, this is because the media is in the pocket of "radical left-wing Democrats, in the pocket of the same people who are destroying our country." As he put it: "extreme democrats want to turn the United States into a communist country."
The former president explained: the media was "complicit" in the election of Biden. "If the press was honest, the election would have turned out much differently," he added.
Referring to the foreign policy of the current president, Democrat Joe Biden, Trump said: Biden has "humiliated" the American nation on the "world stage". According to the former president, the recent actions and rhetoric of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping point to a "lack of respect". "We have never had such a problem. There was no problem with Putin and Ukraine. There was no problem with President Xi and Taiwan. China, Russia and Iran are aggressive and provocative. A year ago, they would not have dared to do this. They would never have done that. They are playing with us," Trump said.
The former president also criticized the steps taken by the Biden-led administration against the coronavirus and highlighted the role of Anthony Fauci, the White House's epidemiologic adviser, whom Trump said Biden "made a king of". He called the current government's epidemic measures a "crime" and said: "We gave Joe Biden every tool, but he failed. (.) Unable to keep up. They can't. In fact, they are incompetent”.
As he said: today there are four times as many Covid-infected people as there were during his presidency, and - imitating Biden's voice - he reminded us of Joe Biden's campaign promise, when the then-presidential politician said: "I will get rid of Covid".
Trump called the commission investigating the January 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol "unelected" and a "political joke" and condemned the "inhumane" treatment of those arrested during the attack on the US legislative building. “What is happening to these people in prisons, why are they not doing the same to members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter? The Democrats celebrated their indefinite detention without trial," said the former president.
In general, the former president sharply criticized his successor. "We all knew that Joe Biden would not be such a good (president), but few would have imagined that what they are doing would be such a disaster for this country," Trump said. In addition to the bad handling of the coronavirus epidemic, he also mentioned extremely high inflation and gasoline prices.
By the way, on Saturday, the new, Republican governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, was inaugurated. In his speech, the businessman-turned-republican politician said, among other things, that in schools, as he put it, "politics will be removed from the lessons, and children will be taught math, reading, and history again."
By doing so, the governor indicated that a particularly sharp debate has unfolded in Virginia about whether civil society organizations can teach classes about homosexuality to underage students. "Parents have a right to say what their children are taught in school," stated Glenn Youngkin.
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