Trump in Waco uses his “victim” speech to validate himself before the 2024 elections

First modification: 03/26/2023 – 17:04

Trump had promoted this rally at Waco Airport as the first of his 2024 election campaign for next year’s elections (although in reality it is not since he ran in November as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the US Presidency). .). This time, Donald Trump, former president of the United States, lashed out at the prosecutors who are weighing the criminal charge against him and called it “misconduct by the prosecution.”

“They have nothing (against me)!” An angry Trump exclaimed before the crowd gathered to see him at the Waco Regional Airport, where he presented himself as a victim of Justice and lashed out at the lawyers who are handling his case at the Prosecutor’s Office of the District of Manhattan, whom he insulted and called “scum”.

At 76, the former president continues with his provocative and threatening speeches. This time, he began by performing the song “Justice for All,” in which a choir of men imprisoned for their part in the January 6 insurrection sing the national anthem and Trump recites the pledge of allegiance.

Trump against his investigators

He has not only denied any wrongdoing in New York, Georgia and Washington, but has also, without proof, claimed the investigations are efforts to hinder his 2024 presidential bid.

He also criticized the Supreme Court for ruling last November that his tax returns should not be kept secret, as he himself had requested. Trump said that “every piece” of his financial and business life has been “dissected” like no one else in the country: “Something that wasn’t supposed to have happened,” he noted.

He also censured the Supreme Court for “not having dared” to declare the 2020 elections invalid, in which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden and which the then Republican president denounced, without evidence, that they had been rigged by progressives.

Trump, who did not stop being cheered on by his supporters in Waco, also regretted that his former lawyer Evan Corcoran had to testify on Friday before another federal grand jury, this time in Washington DC, in the case of the classified documents found in the mansion in Florida of the former president.

At this point, he again accused the Justice of partiality and pointed out that the only lawyers who have to appear before grand investigative juries are those of the Republicans.

Here, he attacked the Democrats, whom he indicated that they are trying to turn Justice into a political weapon.

He returned to the usual topics

Beyond his problems in court, the former president dedicated a good part of his speech to some of his favorite topics. As he usually does at his rallies, he complained about the “communist” policies of the Democrats and the management by the Biden Administration of the competition with China, the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the border with Mexico, where he stressed that there is “an invasion” and insecurity reigns. In addition, he relied on lies to validate his speech.

On this matter, he anticipated that if he is elected president in 2024, he will expand the wall on the southern border of the country. Likewise, that if he returns to the White House he will end the war in Ukraine “very soon” and boasted of his good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin when he was in the White House.

The New York jury continues to investigate the alleged payment of a bribe to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who alleged she had a sexual encounter with Trump, a claim he denies. Yet last week, Trump falsely predicted his own arrest over the issue and called for the protests without adding that they should be peaceful. On the Truth Social platform he warned of “potential death and destruction” if he was ultimately charged.

The choice of Waco is strategic

The location was no coincidence: Waco, the “epicenter of the patriot movement,” as some Trump supporters call it. It is the former stronghold of the Branch Davidians religious group, now called The Lord Our Righteousness.

The rally came exactly 30 years after a 51-day standoff and deadly siege between law enforcement and Branch Davidian, which resulted in the deaths of more than 80 members of the religious cult led by David Koresh and four federal agents, the product of a fire caused by their self-proclaimed messiah while the agents proceeded to evict them on April 19, 1993.

Trump 2024 flags were flown at the site of the incident, where a memorial now stands. Current Branch Davidians pastor Charles Pace, in his 70s, believes Trump’s enemies are the same as David Koresh’s.

Caps with the slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ and flags with ‘Trump 2024’, ‘Trump Girl’, abounded in the Waco area. Also a big sign that said ‘Democrats are Comunists’ (Democrats are communists).

There were also T-shirts with a drawing of a rifle and the message “I support the Second Amendment and I’m proud of it,” alluding to the constitutional norm that supports the carrying of weapons in the country. The parking lots were packed and with police security. A white T-shirt abounded in every business, with the message “God, guns, Trump in Waco, Texas.”

With EFE, AFP and R.F.I.