Never in the past had a former president of the United States come out of retirement so quickly to attack his successor with virulence and maintain the hypothesis of a new candidacy. Never especially a tenant of the White House beaten at the polls had never spoken to denounce once again an election according to him “Rigged”. Speaking Sunday, February 28 in Orlando, Florida, at the closing of the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservatives, Donald Trump added these two new, unprecedented breaks to an already long list of freedoms taken with political norms American.
In addition to the attack in order against an administration in place for less than six weeks but already found guilty of all evils, Donald Trump wanted to demonstrate his grip on the Republican Party. A conquered audience and the absence of nuanced or divergent voices within the Grand Old Party (GOP) made it easier for him. Former Vice President Mike Pence was thus absent, as was Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), who was particularly harsh with the former president for his major role in maintaining a conspiracy theory. about the ” flight Of the November 3 election.
With rare exceptions, guest speakers during the three-day Conservative rally competed in demonstrations of loyalty and questioning the sincerity of the presidential poll. The presence in the corridors of the grand hotel which hosted the event of a golden statue of Donald Trump, made in Mexico by an expatriate admirer, nourished the impression of a cult of personality that the interested party fueled during his visit. intervention noting, as the audience chanted ” we love you ! “, that his predecessors had never aroused such adulation.
Bitterness
His speech aimed to herald a bright future at “Trumpism” that the former president summed up succinctly to customs barriers, an ultra-restrictive migration policy and the defense of traditional republican values, unimpeded access to firearms or the fight against abortion. Strewn with untruths, as when Donald Trump said that his successor had lifted all sanctions against Iran, this project has however been constantly polluted by its inability to overcome its defeat.
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