Oxon Hill (United States), March 3. The main annual forum of the American right has Donald Trump as its absolute protagonist and before the former president closed it on Saturday, his family mobilized the bases with a clear message for 2024: “Vote with the wallet”.
On stage at the National Harbor Convention Center on the outskirts of Washington, where the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meets, were his son Donald Trump Jr., his girlfriend and former Trump adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle, and his also former adviser Lara Trump. , wife of his son Eric.
“It looks like MAGA country,” Donald Trump Jr. told a devoted but not particularly large audience. The initials of “Make America Great Again”, the motto that Trump (2017-2021) used during his first election campaign, are proudly displayed in this platform, omnipresent on t-shirts, stickers or caps and in the speech of the assistants.
Trump’s eldest son has his own booth in the hallway of the National Harbor, where he interviews Republican Party figures for his podcast with a photo of the White House in the background, but it was his speech that served as the backdrop. main speaker in this meeting.
“We have to start voting with our wallets, to support those who support us,” said the also executive vice president of the Trump Organization, his father’s business network, calling for political and political patriotism. ‘economic.
The United States, according to him, needs a president “who does not belong to other people”, because the administration of Democrat Joe Biden has made the country currently “unrecognizable”: “And it will continue like this if we don’t defend ourselves and We say enough.”
“You can choose. Do it. You already know what the other side looks like,” he argued, recalling that unless his movement regains power in 2024, he will not be able to implement its program and will be in the hands of a party. who, among other reproaches, “instrumentalized the covid and the pandemic”.
For his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Democrats’ only goal is to “destroy” people’s lives.
“We will say ‘no’ to open borders, chaos, attacks on US energy independence, give in to climate alarmists, reckless spending and turn our schools into far-left indoctrination,” he said. declared the ex-prosecutor also.
Everyone at the meeting, which kicked off Wednesday, had the message for Biden, he said, that “it’s time to put America first” because when Democrats are on the front lines “crime increases and the quality of life decreases”.
“We’re sick of being told we’re the problem just for pointing it out. While it might be a relief to think that their behavior is simply a matter of incompetence, the truth is that the damage they inflict are intentional,” Guilfoyle said.
The Trump family’s joint plea comes a day after the Justice Department said the former president ‘does not enjoy absolute immunity’ from civil lawsuits by police and congressmen seeking to evict him. hold liable for physical and psychological damages suffered for the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
But her son and two daughters-in-law were focused on the future.
“Our battle to save America has only just begun. Are we ready to remove Joe Biden from the White House? I can think of no one better to be the 47th President of the United States than my father-in-law,” said Laura. Asset.
His speech called for confidence in this possible victory: “We must not forget that six years ago no one was betting that Donald Trump would become president. People thought it was a joke, a publicity stunt. And when he did, those same people worked overtime. to get rid of him and get in his way. And despite everything – he concluded – look at what he has achieved”. EFE
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