Exactly 30 years ago the world learned of the existence of a town in deep Texas, Waco. The leader of a Christian sect who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ on Earth, a messiah, David Koresch, who not only slept with minors but also accumulated a powerful arsenal of rifles, machine guns, and grenades for years, lived at ease there for years. that the apocalypse that he said was about to unleash would not catch him off guard. His fanaticism ended in a pitched battle against federal agents and a massacre that left 86 dead, 28 of them children. In Waco, still a symbol of insurrection against Washington for factions of the extreme right in the United States, Donald Trump began his electoral campaign towards re-election in 2024.
His team has denied that the choice of that town has anything to do with the anniversary of the massacre. Steven Cheung, his campaign spokesman, said the city of 140,000 was chosen “because it is centrally located and close to the four largest metropolitan areas in Texas,” referring to Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. However, his first electoral rally occurs at the gates of his possible arrest and indictment for her involvement in paying the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels to buy her silence during the electoral campaign that led him to the White House. in 2016.
Trump is very aware that he could be the first president of the country to go to jail. And also, that this factor will be key to his re-election options if he manages to get out of his many conflicts with the law. In his speech at a Waco airport, he exploited the situation to exhaustion, erected as a victim and a martyr of the white and Christian cause that continues to support him unconditionally.
In his hour long speech, he blamed the “sinister corrupt forces of the radical left” for trying to destroy his private and personal life with harassment typical of the “witch hunt” that he says he has suffered since he entered politics. “I’ve been dissected like no one in the history of the United States,” he said, even accusing the Supreme Court of helping to prosecute him by failing to stop the release of his tax return. “Even the Republicans and the Supreme Court are scared. They don’t have the courage to do what’s right,” he said.
Trump compared the process investigating his alleged election wrongdoing to Stalin’s Russia or communist China, claiming the country is in the hands of “Marxists and communists.” Even so, he is convinced that his campaign will once again have a happy ending. “When this election is over I will be the president of the United States”, he intoned, awakening the euphoria of the stands. He also reassured them by talking about the “invasion” of immigrants on the Mexican border who are “mutilating your children” and stealing local jobs from Americans, the same argument he used six years ago. “America will once again be a free nation,” he said. “There has never been a movement like it in US history.”
In his already classic corrosive style, the New York millionaire peppered his speech with constant disqualifications. He charged against President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and even his presumed rival in the Republican Party primaries, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida. He criticized CNN, the journalist Don Lemon, “the fake news media”, the “Department of Injustice” and the corrupt electoral system that stole the elections in 2020. The same string of recent months and without leaving a puppet with a head , for a change.
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