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Trump Soft-Launches His 2024 Campaign
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/01/trump-arizona-rally-2024-election/621244/FLORENCE, Ariz.Tonight, deep in the Arizona desert, thousands of people chanted for Donald Trump. They had braved the wind for hourssome waited the entire dayjust to get a glimpse of the defeated former president. And when he finally appeared on stage, as Lee Greenwood played from the loudspeakers, the crowd roared as though Trump were still the commander-in-chief. To many of them, he is.
I ran twice and we won twice, Trump told his fans. "This crowd is a massive symbol of what took place, because people are hungry for the truth. They want their country back."
Tonights rally was Trumps first public event since July. On paper, the gathering was meant as his response to the anniversary of January 6, as well as an unofficial kickoff for his efforts to support Republicans in the midterm elections. But the event also served as the soft launch of Trumps 2024 presidential campaign. Although he didnt say the words, the former president seems poised to run in two yearsMake America Great Again Again Again, he joked to the crowdand tonight, his message was as clear as it was dishonest: He didnt lose to Joe Biden in 2020, and hell spend the next year working to elect Republicans who agree.
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An hour or so into his speech, Trump turned his attention to January 6th, calling the storming of the Capitol an excuse for Democrats to arrest people and abuse them in jail. He mocked the police officer who shot Ashley Babbitt, and the crowd cheered. He suggested that the FBI planted people in the crowd outside the Capitol to incite the riot. The real insurrection took place on election day, November 3, he added.
I ran twice and we won twice, Trump told his fans. "This crowd is a massive symbol of what took place, because people are hungry for the truth. They want their country back."
Tonights rally was Trumps first public event since July. On paper, the gathering was meant as his response to the anniversary of January 6, as well as an unofficial kickoff for his efforts to support Republicans in the midterm elections. But the event also served as the soft launch of Trumps 2024 presidential campaign. Although he didnt say the words, the former president seems poised to run in two yearsMake America Great Again Again Again, he joked to the crowdand tonight, his message was as clear as it was dishonest: He didnt lose to Joe Biden in 2020, and hell spend the next year working to elect Republicans who agree.
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An hour or so into his speech, Trump turned his attention to January 6th, calling the storming of the Capitol an excuse for Democrats to arrest people and abuse them in jail. He mocked the police officer who shot Ashley Babbitt, and the crowd cheered. He suggested that the FBI planted people in the crowd outside the Capitol to incite the riot. The real insurrection took place on election day, November 3, he added.
Fucking psychopathic liar, con man, and grifter. If he wins in 2024 legitimately (not by alternate electors or fraud, etc), I give up on this country.
eta: More lies here from the psychopathic con man
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Trump Soft-Launches His 2024 Campaign (Original Post)
steve2470
Jan 2022
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PSPS
(14,098 posts)1. The media is salivating for the return of the hourly freak show
heckles65
(603 posts)2. Unfortunately true
Bristlecone
(10,452 posts)3. This with a Blacks for Trump group in the background.
Skittles
(157,995 posts)4. they need to be identified and interviewed
how much are they being paid?