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Edited by: Fern Sidman
Former President Donald Trump called out “China-loving politicians” during his powerful address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday and specifically named Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), as was reported by Breitbart.com
Trump delivered a robust populist message during his speech and also criticized establishment Republicans.
“We are never going to be a country ruled by entrenched political dynasties in both parties, rotten special interest, China-loving politicians, of which there are many,” Trump boldly proclaimed, as was reported by Breitbart.com. “You listening to this Mitch McConnell? Are you listening?”
Trump at CPAC 2023 – “I will hold China financially accountable for unleashing the China Virus upon the world. And I will again withdraw from the WHO which stands for ‘We Hide Outbreaks’.” @CPAC @realDonaldTrump @XHNews #China @WHO #coronavirus #COVID19 #pandemic #WuhanLabLeak pic.twitter.com/hKHO0WczS3
— The Jewish Voice (@JewishVoice) March 5, 2023
Trump then said the United States would never be ruled by “a militant left wing news media that’s either frightened of telling the truth or is truly evil. I don’t know. I think in many ways they’re frightened, but you never really know which. We are not going back to this mindset, not now. Not ever.”
Shortly before Trump’s speech, it was revealed that he handily won a straw poll taken by more than 2,000 attendees for the 2024 GOP presidential nominee. Breitbart.com also reported that Trump received 62 percent support, compared to second-place Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who polled at 20 percent.
Trump at CPAC 2023 – “Never allow China and Russia to get together … We’ve not only allowed it, we’ve made them bosom-buddies.” @CPAC @realDonaldTrump @ChinaInFocusNTD @GordonGChang #RussiaInvadedUkraine @JoeBiden pic.twitter.com/PeOkO1xJHh
— The Jewish Voice (@JewishVoice) March 5, 2023
Newsmax.com reported that Trump gave voice to the “battle for our lives” against both Democrats and establishment Republicans, and told an enthusiastic crowd that they have been engaged “in an epic struggle to rescue our country from the people who hated it and want to absolutely destroy it.”
He also swore that the Republican Party “is never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Carl Rove, and Jeb Bush,” according to the Newsmax.com report.
Trump is on fire at CPAC! @CPAC @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/WSP9TGkUzz
— The Jewish Voice (@JewishVoice) March 5, 2023
“We had a Republican Party that was ruled by freaks, neocons, globalists, open border zealots, and fools,” said Trump. “We’re not going back to people that want to destroy our great Social Security system, even some in our own party, I wonder who that might be that wants to raise the minimum age of Social Security to 70, 75, or even 80 in some cases, and are out to cut Medicare to a level that it will no longer be recognizable.”
Newsmax also reported that Trump declared that “we’re in a Marxism state of mind, a Communism state of mind.”
Standing ovation for @jairbolsonaro ex-president of Brazil at @CPAC https://t.co/m0SWkMsIS9
— The Jewish Voice (@JewishVoice) March 5, 2023
“The sinister forces trying to stop me, silence you, and turn this nation into a Socialist dumping ground for criminals, junkies, Marxist thugs, radicals, and dangerous refugees that no other country wants,” the former president said, as was reported by Newsmax.com.
Trump pointed out that he has often said the United States will never be a Socialist country.
“I said it once at the State of the Union address, and people didn’t understand what I was saying,” he said, according to the Newsmax report. “But I’d shout it out loud and I was right because that train has passed the station long ago of socialism. It never even came close to stopping.”
But, Trump said, “our enemies are desperate to stop us because they know that we are the only ones who can stop them.”
Trump added that with his returning to office, “we are going to finish what we started. We’re going to complete the mission. We’re going to see this battle through to ultimate victory. We’re going to make America great again, “Mewsmax.com reported.
“We will demolish the deep state,” he promised. “We will expel the warmongers. They are people that don’t get it, Although, in some cases they get it. They get it for their wallets. But we can’t do that. We can’t let that happen. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the Communists. We will throw off the political class that hates our country.”
Newsmax said that Trump declared, “we will beat the Democrats. We will rout the fake news media. We will expose and appropriately deal with the [Republicans in name only] RINOs,” he said. We will evict Joe Biden from the White House. And we will liberate America from these villains and scoundrels once and for all.”
Republicans, he added, will not be going back to a party that wants to give “unlimited money to fight foreign wars” but demands to cut veterans’ and retirement benefits, as was reported by Newsmax.
“Our soldiers will no longer live in the streets of our city,” Trump promised. “Legal immigrants come in, and we house them in the Waldorf Astoria and many of the greatest hotels anywhere in the world. But our soldiers, we do nothing for them. They sleep out at night, and they freeze they freeze in the cold and they die in the heat.”
Further, the administration and lawmakers are taking care of the problems of the rest of the world rather than at home, such as in East Palestine, Ohio, after the train derailment, Trump said, as was reported by Newsmax.com.
While speaking to reporters on Saturday at CPAC in Maryland, Trump said Saturday that he would not drop out of the 2024 presidential race if he were indicted in any of the federal and state investigations he faces, CNN reported.
“I wouldn’t even think about leaving,” Trump told reporters at CPAC, where attendees named him their favored presidential candidate shortly before he took the stage.
Trump is facing a number of investigations that include several criminal inquiries. CNN reported that prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, have been probing the effort by Trump and his allies to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, while the US Department of Justice is investigating the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, as well as Trump’s handling of classified material after he left office.
Trump remains defiant in the face of the ongoing probes and on Saturday argued “they’ve weaponized justice in our country,” CNN reported.
Trump has refused to commit to backing the 2024 Republican nominee if it isn’t him, and on Saturday also said he has not decided whether he would sign the loyalty pledge Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is requiring of GOP 2024 candidates to participate in the debates.
CNN also reported that during his speech at CPAC on Saturday, Trump said Republicans must “change our thinking” on early and mail-in voting after GOP losses in 2020 and 2022 – a dramatic reversal after years of falsehoods about those forms of voting being rife with fraud.
Trump said Republicans moving forward must try “beating the Democrats at their own game,” as was reported by CNN. “That means swamping the left with mail-in votes, early votes and Election Day votes,” he said.
