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Former US President Donald Trump will return to the rally stage this weekend, holding his first campaign-style event since leaving the White House as he makes his promise to take revenge on those who voted for his second impeachment.
Mr. Trump’s event at Ohio’s Lorain County Fairgrounds, not far from Cleveland, will be held Saturday to support Max Miller, a former White House aide who is challenging Republican Rep. Anthony Gonzalez for his congressional seat .
Mr. Gonzalez was one of 10 GOP House members who voted to impose on Mr. Trump his duty to incite the deadly insurgency on Jan. 6 in the Capitol building.
Mr. Trump wants them all to pay.
The rally, held five months after Mr. Trump left office under a cloud of violence, marks the beginning of a new, more public phase of his post-president.
Donald Trump has vowed to take revenge against GOP members who voted for his second impeachment for his role in inciting an uprising at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 (Julio Cortez / AP)
After spending his time behind closed doors building a political operation and blazing about the final election, Mr. Trump is planning a busy public demonstration in the coming weeks.
He will hold another rally in Florida on the fourth weekend of July without a candidate in the middle, and will travel to the southern border next week to protest President Joe Biden’s immigration policies.
The rally also included Mr. Trump facing immediate legal danger. Manhattan prosecutors told his company on Thursday that it could immediately deal with criminal charges stemming from an extensive investigation into the former president’s business dealings.
The New York Times reported that charges could be filed against the Trump Organization as early as next week. Mr. Trump denounced the investigations as nothing more than a “witch hunt” aimed at corrupting him politically.
Donald Trump has been quiet since being replaced by Joe Biden in the White House, partly due to continued bans from Twitter and Facebook (Niall Carson / PA)
Although Mr. Trump remains a deeply polarized figure, he is highly popular on the Republican base, and candidates flocked to his homes in Florida and New Jersey seeking his endorsement as he tried to position himself. himself as the kingmaker of his party.
Mr. Trump said he is committed to helping Republicans regain control of Congress in the mid -year election. But his efforts to support – and recruit – candidates to challenge incumbent Republicans who have crossed over to him are at odds with other Republican leaders trying to unite the party after a brutal year in which they lost their control of the White House and failed to gain control of either chamber of Congress.
So far, nine out of 10 House Republicans who voted for Mr. Trump’s impeachment have taken on major challenges. And Mr. Trump offered to support anyone moving forward to challenge the remaining candidate, New York representative John Katko, according to a report on syracuse.com.
“We’re giving massive endorsements,” Mr. Trump boasted Friday morning when he called the conservative Newsmax channel and explained his endorsement rationale.
“Fake Republicans, anyone who votes for impeachment won’t get it,” he said. “But there aren’t too many of them. And I think most of them are, if not all, practical now, so that’s good. I’ll help their opponent.”
Mr. Gonzalez, a former college and professional football player, stood up by his impeachment vote in the face of fierce criticism from his party’s conservative wing, including censorship by the Ohio Republican Party.
At the same time, Mr. Trump continues to be obsessed with his ongoing efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, which he still insists on winning, even as top election officials, his own lawyers and many judges say there is no evidence of the mass voter fraud he is justifying.
On Monday, he told the conservative Voice of True America that he has yet to run the race or admit defeat. And he invited the public to the idea that he could be reinstated, even if there was no legal or constitutional basis for doing so.
At the same time, he continues to attract the possibility that he will mount a comeback run for the White House in 2024. Aides said Mr. Trump, who was banned from Twitter and Facebook after Jan. 6, will decide after mid -term next fall.
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