Donald Trump to deliver first speech in Florida after stepping down as President of the United States

Former President of the United States Donald Trump will speak about Orlando, Florida next weekend in his first speech since leaving the White House on January 20.

The intervention is scheduled for Sunday February 28 as part of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), an annual event, as it became known on Saturday from sources close to the former president.

Trump will speak on “the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement”, said his entourage to AFP. It would also address the issue of immigrationthere it “Disastrous policies” of his successor Joe Biden on the matter, they added.

This week Trump, who after leaving the White House moved to his private club Mar-a-Lago in Southeast Florida, gave his first interview as former president the chain Fox News and reiterated that he does not recognize Biden’s victory.

The interview took place after has been acquitted on charges of instigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6. On that day, a group of his supporters who had previously attended a rally in which Trump told them to “fight like demons” to protest the election result, managed to enter Congress in Washington and committed acts of violence and vandalism.

Five people were killed in the incidents and dozens of people were arrested for their participation in events.

Yet even the second impeachment trial against him does not appear to have undermined Trump’s popularity with members of the Republican Party..

According to various polls published this week, The mogul continues to enjoy majority support among supporters of the current opposition, and with a very wide margin over other potential candidates in the 2024 presidential elections.

The brutal division the Republican Party faces over how to deal with the controversial former president was exposed during the impeachment trial that ended last weekend, after 10 members of the House of Representatives and 7 senators voted in favor of condemning him.

And while some members – even more than those who have spoken out against him – say it is time to turn the page, Trump has hinted at a possible political future that could include his desire to run again in the next election.

With that goal in mind, the former president harshly criticized Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, and questioned his role in the party after lawmakers said the former U.S. president was “Practically and morally responsible” for the assault on the Capitol on January 6.

“The Republican Party can never be respected or strong again with political ‘leaders’ like Senator Mitch McConnell at the helm,” Trump said in a scathing statement, calling on party members to withdraw support for McConnell because his leadership means “They won’t win anymore.”

Further, he pointed out that “their lack of political vision, intelligence, skill and personality” is responsible for the Republicans’ setbacks in the Upper House, so in due course. candidates who defend the slogan “Make America Great Again” and “America First” will be supporting in the party primaries. In other words, those who consider that they are not aligned with him.

The next Republican Party interns are scheduled for November 2022.

With information from AFP, EFE

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