WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump (2017 – 2021) on Saturday drew a dark panorama in the country due to the immigration policies of his successor in office, Democrat Joe Biden, in what the media dubbed his “revenge tour.”
The former president held the first rally of this tour before hundreds of his supporters in Wellington, in northeast Ohio, in an act that is seen as his return to political activity .
For this first event, Trump raised an issue that he knows gives him support among conservative voters: immigration and the situation on the border with Mexico.
As usual in the former president, he launched a series of accusations in an unfounded manner and without offering evidence to criminalize the undocumented who arrive in the US.
“Only five months of the Biden Administration have been a complete and total catastrophe, s crimes are on the rise, murders are on the rise, police departments are dismantled, illegal aliens are entering our borders, no one has ever seen this, ”he listed.
Trump criminalizes immigrants
Trump assured that drug cartels and human traffickers have returned to operate on the border with Mexico, unlike when he ruled.
“There is no more serious threat today than the crisis on our southern border, except maybe our elections, “lamented the former president, who accused Biden of having dismantled” the US defenses on the border “and of having instigated” a flood of illegal migrants. ” .
At the event, in the style of the innumerable rallies he gave during his Presidency and his two electoral campaigns, there was no lack of the typical paraphernalia with hats and red t-shirts, and posters with the slogan “Save America ”(Hail USA), adopted by the former president since he left the White House.
Trump recalled that next Wednesday he will travel to the border with Mexico and assured that the vice president of the country, Kamala Harris, visited the border on Friday only because he had announced that he was going to go.
The situation on the border with Mexico has exploded for Biden in the first months of his presidency due to the massive arrival of undocumented immigrants, which has set records from March to May.
Biden has entrusted Harris with the management of immigration and the mission of coordinating with the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America to contain the arrival of undocumented immigrants to the southern border.
Trump also defended his policies, such as the withdrawal of the United States. .UU. Of the Paris Climate Agreement and the nuclear pact with Iran, as well as the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or the renegotiation of a new tr trade tie with Mexico and Canada, the T-MEC, replacing NAFTA.
It also reiterated its unfounded accusations that there was electoral fraud in the presidential elections of last November; he lashed out at the postal vote, which was essential in the midst of the pandemic; and claimed that the Democrats took advantage of the covid – 19 to win the vote.
A new public phase for Trump
With this rally, which lasted an hour and a half, Trump has resumed electoral-style events since he was former president to fulfill his promise to get revenge on the Republicans who voted in favor of his Second impeachment trial in the Senate for the assault on the Capitol on January 6.
In fact, the objective of this Saturday’s act was to shelter one of his former aides in the White House, Max Miller , which challenges legislator Anthony Gonzalez for a seat in an Ohio district in next year’s Republican primary.
Gonzalez was one of the ten Republicans in the Lower House who voted in favor of opening an impeachment against Trump for the attack on the Capitol.
And Trump was gladly dispatched against him, by qualify the bad person, “not respected” in Washington DC, a “false” Republican and a “disgrace” for Ohio.
Apart from his desire for revenge, this Saturday’s rally and other acts that has scheduled soon are seen as a strategy to consolidate as leader of the Republican Party, where he continues to be the most popular figure among his voter base.
Return to rallies
Trump spoke after what Miller himself and two of his stalwarts did, Lower House legislators Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene, linked to the QAnon conspiracy movement.
The former president knows the effectiveness well. of the rallies after his campaign of 2016 where he drew masses of followers throughout the country and with whom he promoted his political career.
And he warned as soon as today’s event began that the Republicans want to regain control of the two chambers s of Congress in the midterm elections of 2022, and in 2024, the White House, although it did not specify if it will be presented.
Since his departure from power, the only political events that Trump has appeared at have been the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February and an event before members of the Republican Party in North Carolina in early June. .
This rally marks the beginning of a new, more public phase for the former president: is scheduled to hold another rally in Florida on the weekend of April 4 July, US Independence Day and next Wednesday he will visit the border to protest Biden’s immigration management.
His return to the spotlight occurs when the District Attorney’s Office of Manhattan (New York) is considering filing criminal charges against his family business, the Trump Organization, for possible tax fraud, insurance and other crimes os.
By Susana Samhan