Former President Donald Trump called November’s presidential election “doomsday” and declared himself a “proud political dissident” during his speech closing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday.
“Today I stand before you not only as your past and, hopefully, future president, but also as a proud political dissident. “I am a dissident,” Trump said.
Since the death of Russian political dissident Alexei Navalny in the prison where he was being held in Russia a week ago, Trump has dedicated himself to comparing himself to him.
While Navalny was serving time for his criticism of Putin, Trump is charged with 91 criminal charges and will have to face four civil trials for crimes such as bribery, attempting to invalidate an election or illegally retaining classified documents.
Trump participated today in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that concludes this Saturday, in which figures from the national and international far right have participated.
Among them the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele; Argentine President Milei; the president of the Spanish far-right party VOX, Santiago Abascal or the son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, Eduardo Bolsonaro.
The last three were present during Trump’s speech, one of the most anticipated by dozens of attendees at the great congress of the extreme right in the United States, which this year served to position Trump as the only Republican candidate for the next presidential elections.
Trump reviewed his favorite topics, including immigration, and once again promised that, when he returns to the White House, he will not only build his famous wall on the border – which he did not build when he was president – but that he will carry out ” the largest deportation in history”, removing 18 million people from the United States.
He also had constant references to President Joe Biden, who is expected to be his rival next November, and numerous mockery, verbal and through mime, laughing at his advanced age.
And he again referred to himself as the victim of a political hunt against him carried out by “corrupt Joe Biden.” “Not even Al Capone has been indicted so many times,” he said.
According to the former president, next November 5, when the United States holds elections, will be “the new Liberation Day” from “the liars, cheats, scammers, censors and impostors who have taken over” the government. “It will be the day of judgment and our victory will be my final and absolute revenge,” he added.
Although Trump knows he is the favorite and the numbers prove him right, the Republican convention is still five months away in which the candidate will be formally elected.
After participating in CPAC, Trump will travel to South Carolina, where elections will be held this Saturday within the primary process.
And Trump still has an opponent in the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley.
But for CPAC attendees, Trump is the only candidate, to the point that there is already beginning to be debated who will be his number two.
The CPAC organization is conducting a poll in which attendees are asked to choose the best running mate for Trump, results that will be known at the closing of the event.
The listing contains about twenty names of potential candidatess among whom are Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina; legislator Elise Stefanik of New York or Senator JD Vance of Ohio.
Some of them have taken to the stage of the convention center where the CPAC is being held these days to present their blind and unconditional support for Trump.
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