The ex-president donald trump (2017-2021) this Saturday clung to the vision of himself as the victim of a political witch hunt and asked for the support of Republicans in a rally in which he barely made reference to the assault on the Capitol, which today is fulfilled three years.
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“If I wasn’t running, or if I was in fifth place in the polls, I wouldn’t have been charged. “All of this is a political issue,” said the Republican at an event in Iowa.
Defiant and aggressive, trump He made few references to the assault on the Capitol in his almost two hours of speech: “No one thought that January 6 was even a possibility,” the former president said briefly.
Trump faces criminal charges in federal court in the US capital for what happened, interrupting the peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden by spreading false theories about electoral fraud.
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Some theories on which he insisted again today: “The radical left democrats rigged the 2020 presidential elections and we are not going to allow them to rig the 2024 presidential elections,” he stated.
On January 6, 2021, supporters of trump They broke into the Capitol with the aim of interrupting the parliamentary session in which Biden’s victory in the 2020 elections was going to be certified, forcing legislators to hide and the police to confront the intruders.
The assault occurred after trumpat a rally outside the White House, urged the crowd to head to Congress and “fight with all their might.”
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Five people died then, four police officers subsequently committed suicide, 1,250 people have been charged and 890 convictions have already been handed down.
The Capitol case is just one of the four criminal cases facing the president, who today insisted again, without evidence, that the president Joe Biden He is using justice “like never before” as a “weapon” against him.
“Every time Democrats, communists and radical left fascists accuse me, I consider it a great badge of honor,” said Trump, who indicated that today “prosecutors are more powerful than politicians.”
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The Republican, his party’s favorite in the polls to become the Republican presidential candidate, made these statements at an event in Iowa, where the party’s primary process begins on January 15.
The Iowa caucuses have traditionally served as a starting point to measure the support of each candidate on their way to the White House and, aware of their relevance, today Trump also had harsh criticism of his Republican rivals who, although far away in the polls , they also aspire to be the candidate who faces at the polls Joe Bidenthe Democratic candidate.
The most mentioned were Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. According to the average of polls prepared by the FiveThirtyEight website, Trump is 50 percentage points ahead of the governor of Florida (11.3% of support) and the former US ambassador to the UN (11.3%).
“By achieving a massive victory in Iowa we will send a thunderous message directly to corrupt Joe Biden, the fake news media and all the evil and sinister people who are trying to destroy our nation,” he noted. trump.
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The former president made these statements a few hours after the Supreme Court accepted the case regarding his expulsion from the Republican Party primaries in Colorado.
The highest court in the United States will have to establish a position at the national level on whether Trump can participate in the 2024 presidential elections or if, on the contrary, the role he played in the assault on the 2021 Capitol makes him ineligible.
The public hearing to study the case will be on February 8, although it is not yet known when the Supreme Court will issue its ruling and it is not known how far it will go.
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At an event also held last night in Iowa, Trump warned that there will be “big problems” if the Supreme Court does not rule in his favor on his eligibility for the 2024 presidential elections.
“I just hope that we get a fair deal (…) because if we don’t, our country will be in big trouble,” he said.
