Initially, Donald Trump’s idea for the one-year anniversary of the Capitol invasion was to hold a press conference to reinforce his false version that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that he was not responsible for the biggest attack on democracy in recent history. from United States.
However, the former US president, who encouraged his supporters to enter the US Legislative headquarters to try to prevent the official victory of Joe Biden, canceled the event and spent last Thursday (6) furious, watching the speeches of the current US leader and his deputy, Kamala Harris.
A report by Newsweek magazine, which heard Republican allies on condition of anonymity, describes Trump annoyed at his Mar-a-Lago home as he accompanied Biden saying that “for the first time in American history, a president has tried to prevent the peaceful transition of power.” “, among many other harsh lines.
A friend of the former president, according to Newsweek, said that, for Trump, the attacks show that Democrats are focused on holding the invasion accountable because “the guy [Biden] It’s a disaster.”
Another aspect is noteworthy: the fact that the Republican has backed off from the idea of ​​holding a press conference on Thursday, transferring his speech to a rally in Arizona on the 15th.
Trump’s sons, Ivanka and Eric, and son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to the magazine, were worried that press coverage of the event would make him look “like a fool, like a denialist.” Another ally to reinforce this position was Senator Lindsey Graham, who played golf with the former president the weekend before that date. For him, there would be few advantages in the press conference.
So Trump spent last Thursday in a fury, watching speeches by Biden, Kamala and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, even as family, friends and political allies admonished him not to obsess over the criticism surrounding his role in the House. January 6, as, for them, most Americans are more concerned about rising inflation and the effects of Covid on the country.
It didn’t help. A friend of the Republican said, according to Newsweek, that he cares about opinions “24/7”. In any case, the decision to cancel the press conference was a “pleasant surprise” for people close to Trump, a character who sees himself “as a combative politician and who retaliates whenever he is hit”, in the description given by the magazine.
According to allies of the Republican, his contempt for Biden and his obsession with the false narrative that the election was stolen is due to the fact that Trump “can’t believe he lost to that guy”. The former president sees the current one as incompetent and believes that the first year of management shows that.
Trump’s only public demonstration on the 6th was a statement in which he called Biden’s speech a “political theater”. “Joe Biden and the radical Democrats have failed on all fronts. But don’t lose hope. America WILL BE great again,” he concludes, evoking the slogan that made him famous.
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