The Republican frontrunner also says the “deep state” stepped up its attacks against him when he promised to end the conflict in Ukraine
Former President Donald Trump told his supporters on Saturday that President Joe Biden is turning the US into a “banana republic,” and promised to throw the “repulsive political class the hell out of office” if re-elected next year.
Trump, who is reportedly facing arrest over campaign finance charges in New York, held his first campaign rally ahead of the 2024 election in Waco, Texas, on Saturday. Speaking to a crowd of several thousand people, Trump reiterated his long-held belief that the charges against him – as well as the prosecution of the January 6, 2021, rioters – are a Democrat-orchestrated plot to keep him out of office and criminalize his supporters.
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Trying to find "based" takes in :trump-anguish: babbling is like looking for signs and portents in a bird's entrails. You'll find something that you're hoping to look for but it's a gross mess throughout.
"Based" Trump takes aren't hard to find, though. The man's a bizarre kind of stopped clock. He talks so much that it's inevitable that he'll sometimes stumble toward a "based" take. Except he's :frothingfash: so he uses the foundations of a based take to blast off into moon logic.