Trump brags of 'liberating' America in meandering CPAC speech
Source: The Independent
Saturday 22 February 2025 21:50 GMT
President Donald Trump on Saturday described the chaotic first month of his new administration as nothing short of liberating the United States from the tyranny of a Democratic-led government that had pushed too far to empower minorities and encourage immigration as he spoke to an adoring crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Speaking at the end of the fourth and final day of the annual event in Maryland, Trump bragged about the narrow election victory in last year’s election, which he called “too big to rig” and said his win over Vice President Kamala Harris had “achieved the great liberation of America.” “We're liberating our country right now. We're doing all these things that you're reading about. We're liberating our country,” he said.
Trump recalled how he’d first spoken at CPAC 14 years earlier, when after spending his life as a prominent Democratic donor he began courting celebrity in Republican political circles by spreading a racist lie about the citizenship of then-president Barack Obama, the first and thus far only non-white person to serve as President of the United States.
He noted that he’d won that year’s CPAC straw poll of potential presidential candidates and suggested that was how he’d decided to run for president in the first place.
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He noted that he’d won that year’s CPAC straw poll of potential presidential candidates and suggested that was how he’d decided to run for president in the first place.
"Price of eggs", "Kitchen table issues", "Working class".
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