Jason Miller, an adviser to the former president, agreed on Trump’s control over the party. Many Republican leaders are terrified of him and abasing themselves in front of him.” Michael Beschloss, the presidential historian, said Trump had defied the model of ex-presidents who lose an election and tend to fade away, and the experience of Richard Nixon, who was treated like a pariah in the way that Trump has managed to avoid.Īs for being simultaneously big and small, Beschloss said, “He’s big if the metric is that politicians are afraid of him, which is one metric of power in Washington. Rick Scott of Florida, have tried to curry favor by presenting Trump with made-up awards to flatter his ego and keep him engaged in helping Senate Republicans recapture a majority in 2022. Some party leaders, like the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, are pretending he does not exist anymore, while being deferential when Trump cannot be ignored. Still blocked from Twitter and Facebook, he has struggled to find a way to influence news coverage since leaving office and promote the fabrication that the 2020 election was stolen from him. And unlike others with a grievance, he has been able to impose his anger and preferred version of reality on a substantial slice of the American electorate - with the potential to influence the nation’s politics and weaken faith in its elections for years to come. 6 Electoral College count, from the stage.Įven without his favoured megaphones and the trappings of office, Trump looms over the political landscape, animated by the lie that he won the 2020 election and his own fury over his defeat. Donald Trump said he had been waiting for her to make a decision, and he then endorsed Rep. “I’m saying no for now, not no forever,” Lara Trump told the crowd. The former president was accompanied by his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, who had been eyeing an open Senate seat in her home state of North Carolina but took herself out of the running on Saturday night. But he received a standing ovation when he demanded “reparations and accountability” and $10 trillion from China for inflicting the coronavirus on the globe. Trump was greeted with stony silence from an otherwise enthusiastic crowd every time he mentioned the vaccines.
“Not a great doctor, but he’s a hell of a promoter,” he said of Fauci, whom he had threatened to fire after the 2020 election if he won. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, as a “radical masker.” He repeatedly blamed China for the coronavirus pandemic and sought credit for the vaccines while dismissing Dr. Please remember that.”ĭelivering what amounted to a sometimes low-energy version of his 2020 campaign stump speech, Trump bragged that he had gotten “more votes than any sitting president,” adding, “we had a great election - bad things happened, but we had a great election.” “I’m not the one trying to undermine American democracy,” Trump told a cheering crowd after falsely accusing Democrats of stealing the 2020 election, and railing against mail-in and absentee voting. He raised fanciful, fact-free allegations of widespread fraud and “thousands” of dead people having voted for President Biden, called for voting to be limited in nearly all cases to voting in person on Election Day, and dismissed the results of the 2020 election as a product of the “crime of the century.”
In a 90-minute speech, Trump repeatedly took aim at China for the coronavirus, ran through a litany of conservative culture war issues and ended with an extended frontal attack on voting and American democracy in which he endorsed a long list of Republican voter suppression proposals. Most of them go days or weeks without interacting with Trump in person.īut when he spoke Saturday night to the North Carolina Republican convention, in what was billed as the resumption of his rallies and speeches, Trump was both a diminished figure and an oversized presence in American life, with a remarkable - and many say dangerous - hold on his party. His political operation has also dwindled to a ragtag team of former advisers who are still on his payroll, reminiscent of the bare-bones cast of characters that helped lift a political neophyte to his unlikely victory in 2016. Trump works there, mostly alone, with two assistants and a few body men. So are most of the family members who once worked there with him and some of the fixtures of the place, like his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who have since turned on him. Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, commutes to New York City from his New Jersey golf club to work out of his office in Trump Tower at least once a week, slipping in and out of Manhattan without attracting much attention.
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