Former US President Donald Trump has described the 2024 presidential election as the final battle. During a campaign appearance in Davenport, Iowa last night (local time), Trump said to supporters, “2024 is the last battle.” Addressing his potential constituents, he said, “If you put me back in the White House, the rule of the corrupt Washington establishment will come to an end.” The United States would be a free nation again. “We will fulfill our mission.”
A few months ago, the ex-president was the first Republican to announce his candidacy for the next election. Trump’s choice of words for 2024 has a bitter aftertaste after he failed to admit defeat in the 2020 election and launched a campaign against the outcome of the election that ended with the storming of the Capitol in an unprecedented outburst of violence.
During his appearance, Trump also attacked his internal party opponent Ron DeSantis for previous socio-political positions. DeSantis has historically advocated for cuts in Social Security and health insurance and has advocated for a significant increase in the retirement age. Many people wouldn’t know that. With him as president, there would be no such moves, Trump promised.
Next to Trump, DeSantis is considered the most promising internal party candidate and therefore the biggest competitor for the ex-president. DeSantis is also expected to run for president, but the 44-year-old has not yet spoken out.
Trump said he is consistently ahead of DeSantis in polls, whom he again derided as “Ron DeSantus” and “Ron DeSanctimoniuos.” “Sanctimonious” means hypocritical in German. Trump is known for coining derogatory nicknames for political opponents.
Meanwhile, the prosecution in his native New York has invited Trump’s former lawyer to testify – it concerns a possible indictment against the ex-president for hush money payments to a porn actress. According to US media reports, Michael Cohen appeared before a so-called grand jury in Manhattan yesterday to discuss details of Trump’s role in the payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
In the United States, a jury decides whether to indict a case after the prosecution has presented evidence. American media assumes that this will happen to Trump in the coming days. He would be the first former US president to be charged with a crime.
(t-online/dpa)
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