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Will hit the political system? Trump on the way to announcing his US presidential candidacy | Israel Today

2022-07-02T15:33:48.662Z


The former president's entourage admits that Senate testimony about the events of the Capitol break-in did more damage than he thought.


The 2024 election is underway

: Although it is about a year and a half until the Republican primary begins officially, former President Donald Trump is taking huge steps toward announcing his candidacy in the coming weeks, CNN reported on Saturday.

The reason for Trump's growing tendency to take this dramatic step is the continuation of congressional testimony in the commission of inquiry into his supporters' break-in on January 6, 2021, during which rioters violently tried to stop senators counting electoral votes and announcing Joe Biden as president-elect.

During the testimony last week, new details about his conduct were revealed that day, including allegations that he forcibly took over his ministry car to force the driver to come to Capitol Hill to join the event and also claimed that he knew the demonstrators had weapons, which may indicate that rioters received instructions from him. Or from sources close to him.

"Last week Trump told his associates that he felt a strong desire to launch a new presidential race as early as July to take advantage of Biden's disgraceful situation in the polls and also to challenge his potential rivals in the Republican primaries," CNN reported. Declare an even bigger man this month after last week seeing Cassidy Hutchinson, his assistant chief of staff during the riots, testify in the Senate and flatten the harsh allegations about his conduct that day and in the months before, and that sources close to him admit that Bigger than initially thought.

The riots in the Capitol, Photo: Reuters

Either way, there seem to be serious recipes in his environment for the impending announcement.

According to the report, some of his aides have already begun addressing allies and politicians and have informed them that the president "is seriously thinking of entering the race by announcing earlier than expected."

According to a Republican source who spoke with the network, Trump was thinking of announcing this week (the first week of July when the US also celebrates Independence Day), but his advisers warned him that he did not have the appropriate organizational infrastructure for such a move. Will launch a faltering campaign "It will look like a failure. ' Every day looks different.

We get messages that he is almost ready to announce, and then in the afternoon we are told that it has already changed, "a source was quoted as saying.

However, a source close to Trump who has seen for several months that his tendency is to precede the announcement says that "if it is indeed advanced, it will be in July."

Another source said: "He seems more and more committed to it as the days go by."

The report said Trump feels a great sense of unease whenever the issue of the announcement is mentioned.

"He ranges from concerns surrounding the investigation [of the events of the Capitol break-in] to his desire to fend off fire to him through counter-fire," a source said, explaining that Trump believes an official announcement would allow him to take over the media agenda and give him a chance to fight The charges against him.

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