Donald Trump was counting on 2022 before the 2024 presidential election, it’s starting badly

US – Was hoping to use this year as a tasty treat for 2024, but off to a bad start. After the year 2021 that marked it Exit – semi-bound hand and foot – from the White House after Joe Biden’s presidential victoryDonald Trump was targeting 2022 to begin his return to the political arena.

The midterm elections, which take place in November, and will allow Americans to vote to retain or renew the 435 elected members of the House of Representatives, one-third of the 100 Senators and one-third of the 100 senators, is already a test — and a potential starting point — for the former . President.

especially that All is not well with the Democrats: Biden is remarkably mired in the polls despite several economic developments and indicators showing green, so his party is concerned about losing its narrow majority in the House and Senate in the November vote. Then we see Biden paralyzed for the rest of his term…and lose the 2024 presidential election.

If, until recently, Republicans remained united behind Donald Trump and thus presented good prospects for the upcoming elections, then this conservative bloc is beginning to split. And the former reality TV star piles on personal setbacks on top of that. What’s holding up the potential launch ramp in hopes of resting its boxes in the Oval Office?

Capitol attack

The dossier that followed even before he left the White House, and which earned him a second impeachment trial for “inciting rebellion,” the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, appears to have sunk Trump a little more. Progressing. as time passes on.

Parliamentary investigation into the matter reveals compelling elements day by day and slowly but surely paints a picture of a president willing to do anything to cling to power: a draft decree ordering the military to seize electoral machines, deliberately torn documents …

At a meeting in Texas at the end of January, the second in 15 days, Trump did not help his cause by causing uneasiness even in his own party. “If you attend (in 2024, Editor’s note), and he won, we will treat those who happened on January 6 fairly,” he said of his supporters who invaded the US Capitol. He even went so far as to assure that he would consider giving them a presidential pardon to avoid imprisonment or conviction.

Something that offends even his closest allies, like ultra-conservative Lindsey Graham. The senator was quick to describe these supposed amnesty promises as “inappropriate.” It was soon opposed by Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate. He said: “It was a violent rebellion whose goal was to prevent the transfer of power between one administration and another after legitimate elections.” (Video below).

Mitch McConnell does not speak for the party and does not represent the views of the majority of its voters. Trump immediately replied: He did nothing to fight for his own voters and to prevent the largest voter fraud in American history. A conversation between a former president and a Senate party leader has never been seen before, public radio NPR in particular points out.

Division among Republicans

Other statements continue to expose tensions between conservatives. A few days after this meeting, it was especially the turn of the former US Vice President to rebel against Trump. During a speech in Florida, Mike Pence dismissed the allegations of the former Republican president, who said that as Vice President he could have prevented Joe Biden’s victory from being ratified by elected officials on January 6, 2021.

“President Trump said I have the right to reverse the election, but President Trump is wrong,” he said in rare, firm statements. “And frankly, there is no idea less American than the idea that only one person can choose the president,” he said.

We couldn’t have been more loyal to Donald Trump when he was in power, Mike Pence actually contradicted his boss, but never directly. And the fact that he did not rule out running for the White House himself, even in the face of his former boss, confirms everything.

Many elected Republicans also agree with these criticisms and have been working alongside Democrats for weeks on a bill to prevent any election from going downhill or such an electoral bazaar from happening again.

Chair ghosts

All this without taking into account other matters relating to the Trump presidency. Like the highly questionable management of official documents by the former head of state, which has been at the center of multiple investigations for several weeks. The former president has repeatedly been accused of willfully neglecting some of his papers before referring them, however obligatory since the 1978 law, to the US National Archives.

This federal agency even had to go to Florida to collect fifteen boxes of documents that Donald Trump took with him when he left Washington in January 2021. In these boxes, letters from Barack Obama and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a map of the United States that have been the subject of heated exchanges with the US Weather Service, but also, according to Washington Postmany documents marked “secret defence.”

The National Archives also revealed that the former leader had a habit of shredding some of his work documents, another practice that contravened the 1978 law. Sheets of papers sent to the Archives were “pasted with tape” by “White House Records Administration officials,” others left as they are, on The extent of what they say. Emails, letters and other business documents must be sent to this agency responsible for their retention.

Icing on the cake, a journalist from The New York Times He asserted in an upcoming book that White House staff regularly discovered bundles of papers clogging toilets, and suspected the president of wanting to dispose of documents. (excerpt above).

Legal and Technological Problems

For Donald Trump, there is no doubt that these various issues are nothing but a “witch hunt,” one of his favorite expressions in the face of the many accusations lying on his back. Their goal? And he asserts that it distracts “from the terrible situation in which the Biden administration has flooded our country.” But it is not just parliamentary commissions of inquiry and state institutions that make the start of 2022 a less pleasant experience than expected. In early February, his longtime accounting firm let him go, saying that financial statements he had provided about a decade ago were unreliable.

Thus, the group no longer wanted to have anything to do with the Trump Organization, which is the subject of several investigations: possible tax evasion at the state level in New York, and another, criminal, led by the Manhattan attorney general. very general legal problems, Trump and two of his sons were ordered on February 17 to appear there as witnesseswhich complicates a possible second race for the White House about which the interested party leaves as much doubt as possible.

Even his projects launched during his political retirement were not at the top. It will take several weeks for her social network to be fully functional. The person who is still banned from Twitter and Facebook wanted to launch his “TRUTH Social” platform in January (the first mentioned deadline of November 2021 was impossible to meet). A few users were able to download the app on Monday, February 21st for a few hours, but not all Americans who want to do so will be able to use it before the end of March.

If “TRUTH Social” promises to remove all censorship to make way for the “truth”, the app should do everything to find a way to properly modify its content enough to comply with the rules of Apple, Google or again Amazon and not be blocked from downloading for most smartphone users . As was the case with Parler, where many Trump fans discussed conspiracy theories, white supremacy, and other extreme topics.

So before Donald Trump single-handedly triggers a conservative wave disrupting the midterm elections and his intervention in the 2024 presidential race, there is still some work to do.

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