Roughly 18 months after leaving the US presidency, Donald Trump returned to Washington to deliver a speech pointing the finger at Democrats’ work on security measures and fighting crime. leaving open a possible candidacy for the 2024 elections.
In a 90-minute speech, Trump criticized the Joe Biden administration, saying the United States “has gotten to its knees” and is “going to hell.” Therefore, he reinforces, Americans have to be “tough, dirty and bad” in measures to combat crime.
Our country is headed to hell. It is a very unsafe place. Who would have guessed? We’ve never had anything like what’s happening now,” the former president told the conservative think tank America First Policy Institute.
The former US president recalled that two years ago the country had “an economy expanding like never before, the strongest and most secure border in the history of the United States, energy independence and historically low gasoline prices.” Trump calls for a tough hand on public safety and asks “to return to the police their authority, their resources and their prestige.” As an example, he proposed more funding for the police and harsher penalties for violating immigration laws.
Trump pointed out that inflation at historical levels of 9.1%, gasoline prices, also at record levels, and uncontrolled insecurity, in his opinion, mean that in the United States there is currently neither security nor freedom: “Our country is suffering one historic humiliation after another on the world stage. And then, at home, our most basic rights and freedoms are under siege. The American dream is being shattered,” warned the former president, taking the opportunity to reaffirm that the elections were “a catastrophe” for the country. “Maybe we have to do it again,” he added.
Donald Trump also took the opportunity to remember his presidency and defined himself as “the most persecuted person in the history of the United States”, having survived two attempts to the impeachment process. Not mentioning his intentions for the 2024 presidential election directly.and leaving everything open, Trump was confident that a new Republican mandate would reverse the current situation.
In November, people will vote [nas eleições intercalares] to prevent the destruction of our country and will vote to save America’s future. I’m here to start talking about what we need to do to achieve that future when we win in 2022 and when a Republican president wins back the White House in 2024, which I really think will happen.”
Trump reappeared in Washington at a time when the investigation committee of the robbery in the Capitol of January 6, 2021 made new revelations that prove that the then president chose “not to act” and did not want to stop the riots in time. There were five deaths, the day Joe Biden’s victory was preparing to be confirmed.
Source: Observadora
