Trump pledges to stay in 2024 presidential race even if he is criminally charged
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Published Sat, Mar 4 20236:38 PM ESTUpdated 2 Min Ago WATCH LIVE Key Points
- Former president Donald Trump said at CPAC that he would not quit the 2024 presidential race even if he is indicted with criminal charges.
- Trump launched his third bid for the White House in November.
- The DOJ is investigating the possibility that the former president removed as many as 3,000 documents from the White House and potentially tampered with 2020 election results.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the recent derailment of a train carrying hazardous waste, during an event at a fire station in East Palestine, Ohio, February 22, 2023. Alan Freed | Reuters
Former president Donald Trump said on Saturday he will remain in the 2024 presidential race even if he faces criminal charges in the ongoing investigations into his handling of White House documents and alleged 2020 election tampering.
Trump made the pledge in response to Newsmax's James Rosen, a former Fox News reporter, at a press conference at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, Rosen tweeted on Saturday.
Trump launched his 2024 White House bid in November, a week after Republicans lost a number of important midterm races.
Recent polling of GOP voters showed that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, widely deemed Trump's main competition, would beat Trump if the two came head-to-head. DeSantis has not yet launched a bid for the presidency.
Trump's campaign takes place amid an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into whether he removed nearly 3,000 documents from the White House and potentially tampered with 2020 election results. The FBI seized nearly 200,000 pages of documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago property in September.
On Friday, Trump's lawyers asked a federal court to block his former vice president, Mike Pence, from speaking to a grand jury concerning alleged efforts to overturn the former president's 2020 election loss, claiming executive privilege, several media outlets reported.
The new filing was submitted in a sealed proceeding on Friday, according to CNN. It is not the first time Trump's legal team has asserted executive privilege to prevent Pence from testifying.
The investigation came after Trump was impeached twice with charges of high crimes and misdemeanors, once for allegedly using U.S. foreign aid to extort Ukraine and a second time for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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Trump remains the frontrunner for the gop nomination in 2024!
"Recent polling of GOP voters showed that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, widely deemed Trump's main competition, would beat Trump if the two came head-to-head. DeSantis has not yet launched a bid for the presidency"
The more level and sane voters are starting to accept the reality that Trump is unelectable nationally. They've heard all his boring blowhard bluster and bullshit before.
There is no way he has gained any voters since losing ungracefully.
Trump remains the frontrunner for the gop nomination in 2024!
Which at this point in time of the 2024 race means exactly diddly squat with a turd blossom on top ......
If three or more candidates vie for the gop nomination the winner takes all rule in most gop primaries gives Trump the edge because his base of support among gop primary voters is solidly over 40%...
Trump has to be in this thing. It is the last vestige of 'alleged protection' he has.
Actually it's not...not matter how often you repeat this bit of misinformation.
Besides, the primaries are over a year away...lots can happen in the meantime.
Unless the Dems replace Biden with someone who can walk, talk, and chew gum at the same time, they will lose the presidency, no matter which Republican runs.
Did you hear that the former 'president' just released him reciting the pledge of allegiance with the jailed 1/6 failed coup/insurrectionists singing the star-spangled banner? The failed losers sang the banner over the phone from prison while the turd recited the pledge.
He stated that he was also supporting some of these losers. Yeah, right.
jbb is not repeating any misinformation.
In the photo, is that Ohio's JD dude on 'the Mar-a-lago man's right?
Anyway, Trump is confident he won't be indicted because he is invincible.
Perhaps Trump also believes 'his MAGA mobs' will take to the streets to destroy the nation if he's ever called to account?
Or---------if he ever has to publicy testify under oath will his uncapable demeanor finally reveal what a small man he really is? Taking the 5th on everything may cause the utter crash he so richly deserves.
If I were a Democrat I'd say let him run, and keep running, no matter how many criminal and civil proceedings are being brought against him - let him completely fuck up the Republicans' chances for success.
Exactly. He's doing the Dems a huge favor. They should maybe even consider funding his campaign.