In his first trip to Washington since he left office, the former president blamed Democrats for ‘a cesspool of crime’ in the US
Trump, a New Yorker born and bred now resident in Florida, was never entirely at ease in Washington during his four-year presidency, which some compared to an army of occupation in a Democratic stronghold: Biden beat the Republican by 92% to 5% in the District of Columbia.
Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff whose reputation has been shredded by the January 6 panel, projected insouciance as he chatted, chortled and posed for photos with supporters while declining interview requests. Shortly before Trump’s keynote address, a man asked the ex-White House counsel Kellyanne Conway: “Can I have a selfie?”
“I truly do believe that elections are about the future, and that it’s absolutely essential – at a time when so many Americans are hurting, so many families are struggling – that we don’t give way to the temptation to look back.” Familiar targets included the “fake news media”, “crazy” Nancy Pelosi, border security, the Russia investigation and the January 6 hearings. He advocated “quick trials” and the death penalty for drug traffickers and argued that presidents should be able to summon the national guard to restore order “without having to wait for the approval of some governor that thinks it’s politically incorrect to call them in”.
Attendees at the conference expressed joy at seeing Trump’s return and hope that he would run for president again – irrespective of what happened on January 6. Matthew O’Brien, 53, director of investigations for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, said: “The Trump administration was the first administration since Eisenhower to take immigration seriously. The fact is, without a border, you don’t have a country.”
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