At a campaign rally in New Hampshire on the 23rd, he criticized “even Trump companies are targets of persecution.”
Come and register in person ahead of the 2024 presidential primary and be guaranteed victory
If elected, “I will install an air defense system like Iron Dome” throughout the United States.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump compared himself to former South African President Nelson Mandela, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his anti-racism and human rights activism, at a campaign rally in New Hampshire on the 23rd (local time). At the same time, he fiercely criticized himself and the Trump Group for becoming victims of political oppression by the Biden administration and prosecutors.
Trump, who returned to Concord, the state capital, for the New Hampshire primary as a presidential candidate, fiercely criticized the Biden administration’s policy of responding to attacks by Israel’s Hamas at a rally of supporters. He also pledged that if elected, he would build an Israeli Iron Dome-style missile defense network throughout the United States.
But most of Trump’s speech was devoted to the criminal and civil lawsuits he is facing. During the talk, Trump said he would go to prison like Nelson Mandela, who was jailed for 27 years for opposing apartheid in South Africa but later won the Nobel Peace Prize.
“I don’t care if I become Nelson Mandela because I am acting according to rational thoughts,” he said to the crowd gathered at the Derry Stadium in New Hampshire. “We must rescue America from the current fascist lunatic government. “They are scary people and are destroying America right now,” he emphasized.
However, Trump is not racist, but tax evasion by inflating his wealth, giving hush money to a woman not to tell her about a sexual relationship during the 2016 presidential election, instigating the Capitol riot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and owning his golf course mansion in Mar-a-Lago. He was indicted on four counts, including the charge of taking and storing a large number of confidential state documents.
His remarks were made by Trump when he came to apply for presidential candidacy here, where the country’s first presidential primary is held. Trump is the first U.S. president to be sent to prison directly for crimes committed while in office.
On this day, Trump also left his signature in the Concord courthouse guestbook, which all candidates are required to sign, saying, “Vote for Trump and solve your problems.”
Presidential candidates must complete their official registration by October 27th of this year, and dozens more are expected to sign. The process is very simple: submit a one-page application form and pay a registration fee of $1,000.
In 2020, 33 Democratic candidates and 17 Republican candidates signed and registered. In 1992, when the number of candidates registered was the highest ever, as many as 61 prospective candidates were listed.
Trump won the New Hampshire primary in 2016 and 2020, but lost support in the state in two midterm elections.
At the time, proxy registration was possible, so Trump sent then-Vice President Mike Pence to complete the registration in 2020, but this time he appeared in person and created a buzz.
Trump said here on the 23rd that according to New Hampshire opinion polls, he was in the overwhelming lead, and claimed that the approval rating of his rival, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, had clearly fallen.
He later spent time criticizing Biden’s response to the Israel-Palestinian war and the president’s speeches so far.
At the same time, he assured that if he takes the White House again, he will install a special anti-missile air defense network throughout the United States to detonate Chinese, Russian, and Iranian missiles before they reach the American sky.
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Source: Donga
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