Donald Trump closed out CPAC tonight with the one true thing he's ever said in a political speech so far in 2023.
Donald Trump returned to a Conservative Political Action Conference recast in his image Saturday, capping a three-day agenda heavy with adoration for the coup-attempting former president but considerably less-well attended by activists and presidential contenders alike.
Trump, within minutes of taking the stage at the Gaylord National Resort, went into his typical remarks, disparaging the United States as a “filthy communist country” and attacking Democrats and the news media.
“They’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you. I’m just standing in their way,” he said. “We will drive out the globalists. We will kick out the communists.”
And even though dozens of rows in the back remained empty, Trump thanked the fire marshal for letting in so many of his supporters. “Look at all these people. They’re up to the rafters,” he said.
Trump called prosecutors investigating him “racist” — the ones in New York and Georgia are Black — and claimed they only went after him because he is likely to win the presidency again. He continued lying about the 2020 election having been stolen from him: “We did much better in 2020 than we did in 2016.” He added later, “I won that second election, and I won it by a lot.”
He relitigated, at length, his two impeachments: The first for his attempted extortion of Ukraine and the second for his incitement of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol that capped off his coup attempt to remain in office.
And he promised that if he won reelection, he would take revenge on those who didn’t respect his followers. “I am your retribution,” he said.
Absolutely believe him on this.
To a frightening degree, if this man ends up back in the White House, he will imprison, immiserate, and even kill millions of us. He will be assisted by a complicit Supreme Court and Republican congress and he will build a federal bureaucracy that will be a nightmare, with dozens of states and hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers and US military troops being used against anyone Trump can think of.
He is 100% telling the truth here.
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