Former US President Donald Trump returns to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office. “He’s going to give a political speech,” Marc Lotter, spokesman for the conservative think tank America First Policy Institute, told CNN. Trump wants to look to the future rather than the past.
Trump’s past has been a hot topic in Washington in recent weeks. A House of Representatives committee of inquiry unearthed hair-raising details surrounding the January 2021 storming of the US House of Representatives. The storming of the Capitol, planned and approved by Trump’s committee, with five dead and around 140 injured police officers, caused horror around the world.
Trump’s successor, Joe Biden, who had long avoided speaking Trump’s name, sharply criticized his role in the storming of the Capitol on Monday. “Brave police officers faced medieval hell for three hours, dripping with blood, surrounded by carnage and facing the frenzied mob who believed the lies of the defeated president,” Biden said at a conference of the organization of black police chiefs.
“For three hours, the defeated former President of the United States watched all of this happen while sitting in the comfort of the private dining room adjacent to the Oval Office,” the Democrat said.
The 76-year-old Trump is making it increasingly clear that he wants to win back the presidency in the 2024 election. He continues to have a strong following within Republicans. However, according to surveys, almost half of the party members would rather send another Republican to Trump in the race. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is given a chance.
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