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Trump amplifies stolen election myth in rambling GOP remarks
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Your support makes all the difference.Major news networks reportedly declined to air Donald Trump‘s first public speech in months to the Republican Party of North Carolina’s annual convention on Saturday evening.
The former president appeared at the event in Greenville, North Carolina, but CNN and Fox News did not carry the speech on their networks.
Mr Trump continued to advance his “stolen election” myth, immersing himself in his denial of the results and his departure from the White House while fuelling the narrative behind a pro-Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol to overturn the votes of millions of Americans.
He also praised a partisan vote audit underway in Arizona and encouraged GOP lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Georgia to do the same.
He claimed he is trying to “save” democracy while also calling the 2020 presidential election “the crime of the century” and a “hoax” and “by far the most corrupt election in the history of our country” despite no evidence from his own campaign or administration officials, the Justice Department, FBI and elections officials from both parties across the US.
“We all know what happened with the election,” he said. “And we can never, ever let that happen again, and we’re going to go forward and we’re going to continue to look and things are being found that is not even believable.”
The former president also called on China to pay $10 trillion in reparations to the United States and the world for the coronavirus pandemic and said nations should cancel their debt to Beijing.
Mr Trump also said a criminal investigation launched by the New York attorney general’s office into his financial affairs is “the ultimate fishing expedition” and an attempt by Democrats to bring him down after he was twice impeached while in office.
“It’s been a five-year witch hunt, hoax after hoax,” said Mr Trump. “They’ll never stop until November of 2024.”
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“We are going to take back our country and take it back at a level that is very good for our country and our citizens, we cannot let bad things happen to our country and bad bad things are happening to us perhaps like never before,” said Mr Trump.
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“Our country is being destroyed before our very own eyes, crime is exploding, police departments are being ripped apart and defunded,” said Mr Trump.
“They (Democrats) are vicious, they are violent, in many cases they hate our country and they have bad policy, but the bad newsroom out standpoint is they stick together, that is the one thing they have.
“We are going to have a tremendous 2022 like we did frankly in 2020, more votes than any sitting President in the history of the us . We had a great election, bad things happened but we had great election.”
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“If I had a face like him I would have been president 20 years earlier,” said Mr Trump as he called him out in the audience.
Trump says he ‘looks forward to 2024’
“We are going to win North Carolina’s all important US Senate race and lay the groundwork to make sure Republicans carry the great state of North Carolina in a year I look forward to, 2024,” said Mr Trump.
“We are going to do numbers you have never seen before. I stand before you today confident that the people of North Carolina will decisively reject Joe Biden and the radical Democrats.”
Lara Trump announces she will not run for US Senate in North Carolina
Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law had been hotly tipped to run for elected office but after she was called up on stage by the former president she announced she would not run.
“It is no for now, not no forever,” she said as she explained she had a young family to look after instead of entering politics.
Instead, Mr Trump announced that he was endorsing congressman Ted Budd “as your next senator.”
“This is a complete, and total endorsement,” he added.
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Lara Trump reveals she is not running for Senate seat at Donald Trump speech
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