Former US President Donald Trump returned to Washington today for the first time since his controversial departure from the White House in 2021, amid the chaos caused by the Capitol Hill invasion.
Increasingly flirting with the idea of running for president in 2024, the businessman will attend an event hosted by the America First Policy Institute, a think tank run by his allies.
His speech will come hours after a series of public hearings of the House of Representatives committee investigating the Capitol Hill attack on January 6, 2021 ended. Members insist on Trump’s responsibility in the episode.
The Republican businessman claims, without evidence, that the 2020 election, marked by the victory of Democrat Joe Biden, was rigged.
Marc Lotter, spokesman for the America First Policy Institute, said on Tuesday that Trump will focus on the future rather than the past.
“He’s going to make a political strategy speech,” Lotter told CNN.
The parliamentary inquiry committee hearings, which uncovered the nature of the attack and the former president’s attempts to disrupt the election result to stay in power, seem to have upset Trump.
Yesterday (25), Biden, who tried to avoid naming his predecessor at the start of his presidency, criticized his inaction in the attack on Capitol Hill.
As Trump watched from the “comfort” of the White House, he denounced “brave police officers … suffered a medieval hell in front of an enraged crowd who believed the defeated president’s lies”.
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Trump, 76, is central to the Republican ranks, with staunch supporters who will put him at the top if he decides to run for president.
The criticism damaged his image, but allowed dissidents like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to gain ground.
According to a recent poll by The New York Times and Siena College, nearly half of Republican primary voters will favor another candidate over Trump.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, owned by the influential Murdoch family, published editorials critical of Trump’s behavior on January 6, 2021.
The New York Post said in an unusually critical article that it showed the billionaire was “unworthy” to return to the White House.
source: Noticias
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