DAVENPORT/WASHINGTON A few months ago, the ex-president was the first Republican to announce his candidacy for the next election. Trump’s choice of words for 2024 has a bitter aftertaste after he hasn’t conceded defeat in the 2020 election and launched a campaign against the outcome that ended in an unprecedented outburst of violence.
Trump supporters violently stormed the seat of parliament in Washington on January 6, 2021. Congress met there to formally confirm the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential election. Trump had previously incited his supporters in a speech that he had been deprived of a victory by massive election fraud. Five people died as a result of the riots.