Campaigning in Iowa, Donald Trump assured on Saturday that he would “win” the presidential election in November against Joe Biden, whom he considers the “worst” president of the United States, a country “in decline” and on the verge of crisis “third World War.”
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Exactly three years to the day after the attack on the Capitol, the former president held two rallies in the small Midwestern state, which is holding its caucuses on Monday, January 15, setting the ball rolling for the Republican primary 2024, which gave him a half-century of outsized weight in the presidential election campaign.
The Republican billionaire, who despite his four criminal charges dreams of being re-elected in November and returning to the White House on January 20, 2025, will face voters for the first time in eight days since his acrimonious departure from the presidency on January 20, 2021.
Exactly three years after his supporters' unprecedented attack on the seat of Congress in Washington on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump assured in a rambling speech lasting more than two hours in Newton, near the regional capital of Des Moines, that he would “win for the third time.” the presidential elections in November.
Elected in November 2016 and defeated four years later, the Republican Tribune believes that his victory in that election was “stolen” from him by 81-year-old Democrat Joe Biden, whom he again called “Joe-la-Scrapule” and whose Dude he was making fun of.
Donald Trump, 77, who has upended American democracy in less than a decade, called Joe Biden the “worst” president in the history of the United States and complained that the world's leading power was “in decline.”
He even estimated that his country was at risk of a “Third World War” and a “Depression” like the 1930s, and warned a few hundred enthusiastic MAGA (“Make America Great Again”) supporters in a Newton Room: “It is our last chance to save America.
Ironic about the warnings from Democrats and the media in recent months about the danger of a Trump “dictatorship” if he were to win a second term, the billionaire announced: “I am a dictator.”
The day before, Joe Biden compared his rival's rhetoric to that of “Nazi Germany” in a campaign speech in Pennsylvania defending “democracy.”
Despite his legal setbacks and the threat of prison time for his attempts to overturn the results of the November 2020 presidential election, polls show Donald Trump winning 60% of the Republican vote against his primary opponents Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis.
He also wasn't afraid to poke fun at his two Republican rivals.
In Iowa and in many conservative states across the country, the septuagenarian has a very loyal base that brushes aside his antics and legal troubles.
The attack on the Capitol, the temple of American democracy, remains a subject of deep division in the United States: a quarter of Americans and 44% of Trump voters believe, without evidence, that the Federal Police (FBI) was involved in the attack . originally according to a Washington Post and University of Maryland poll.
The same FBI announced Saturday the arrest of three people in Florida for their involvement in the Jan. 6 incident. In 35 months of a massive investigation that is still ongoing, authorities have charged more than 1,200 people in nearly all 50 U.S. states. More than half were convicted.
For Mr. Trump, they are “hostages.”
For three years he has denied inciting his supporters to insurrection – new violent images were broadcast on television on Saturday – and to attack Congress, where Joe Biden's victory was confirmed on January 6, 2021.
To assess the pressure he would have exerted to try to overturn the results, a criminal trial must begin March 4 in Washington.
This will be on the eve of one of the most important deadlines in the Republican primaries: “Super Tuesday” in around fifteen states: Texas, California… but also Colorado and Maine.
The latter two states declared him ineligible for the presidency in December due to his actions on January 6, 2021. The Supreme Court took up this case on Friday, although Trump's name will remain on the list until the February decision in the primary.