His presence at the infamous Fulton County Jail lasted no more than 20 minutes, but it was enough to mark the moment as historic. A former president facing almost half of the US Penal Code to be fingerprinted, photographed, given an inmate number and his characteristics recorded: height, weight, hair color. A humiliating process, the common mind would say. But not for the former American president. Taking advantage of the opportunity to enrich the pre-election profile as a victim of the political system, he hastened to premiere again on the X platform, formerly Twitter, with the police photo.

“Interference in elections»

And when it was all over, with his large entourage and the cheers of his supporters he returned to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport for the return trip on his private plane. “It’s a very sad day for America,” he told reporters before boarding. “You should be able to contest an election. I thought the election was rigged. And I should have every right to do that. As you know, there are many who over the years have been doing the same thing, whether it’s Hillary Clinton or lawyer Stacey Abrams or many others. What happened here is a travesty of justice. We did nothing wrong. I didn’t do anything wrong. And everyone knows it. I have never had such support. And that goes for others too. What they are doing is election interference, they are trying to interfere in the election. This has never happened before in our country. This is the way they campaign and this is one case, but you have three other cases. This is electoral interference.”

The “rigged”, as he described the indictment, the 4th in a row, is also the most serious. It includes 13 felony counts including extortion and pressuring state officials to overturn his election loss by creating an illegal electoral roll and aimed at undermining Biden’s 2020 victory. All this as proceedings begin in January. to his party for the nomination of a new candidate.

Vivek Ramaswamy sends messages to young people

Trump currently leads by a wide margin, but yesterday’s debate brought out a clone of him, Vivek Ramaswamy, a young multimillionaire businessman, who at the level of ideas appeared as a representative of the absent Trump sending his own messages.

“My message to Gen Z voters is that it’s going to take someone from a different generation to shake things up. And you saw it on stage tonight. Do you want a puppet with a bunch of pre-made lines, or do you want an independent patriot who speaks the truth? And my other message to Gen Z, is that you don’t have to agree with me 100% of what I say. But if you agree with 80% of what I say and know that I really mean what I say 100% of the time, that’s what it’s going to take to put this country back together.”

Vivek Ramaswamy, who has shown himself to be aloof from political circles, could emerge as a credible contender for the anointing. Big loser was Florida governor Ron DeSandis, who was colorless and below expectations.