“To make America wonderful and excellent again. I am delivering my candidacy for president of the United States tonight,” Trump told a crowd of supporters Tuesday night.
“But as I promised in 2016, I am his voice. I am his voice. Washington’s status quo should silence us, but we may not let them do it. What we’ve built in combination over the last six years is the biggest movement in history because it’s not about politics. This is our love for this wonderful country, America, and we’re not going to let it fail,” Trump said.
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“I am running because the world has yet to see the true glory of what this country can be. We haven’t reached that pinnacle, whether it is or not,” he continued. Array blaming President Biden for the current state of the country. “In fact, we can go very far. We will have to go far first. We have to get out of this gap. And once we get out of it, you’ll see things that no one imagined for any country. it’s called the United States of America. And it’s an amazing place. “
Trump won the presidency for the first time in 2016 against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. If re-elected, he would only have the time of president to take over the White House after being overthrown, a feat accomplished through Grover Cleveland in 1892 after squandering the presidency for Benjamin Harrison in 1888. A victory would make Trump the 45th and 47th president.
Since his defeat, Trump has questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election results, continually claiming that the contest was “rigged” due to the COVID pandemic-era mail-in voting procedure. Trump falsely claimed the election was stolen and his legal team filed a series of lawsuits in battleground states across the country.
Trump’s announcement comes a week after the 2022 midterm elections in which Republicans failed to achieve an anticipated “red wave” of victories. Democrats have retained control of the Senate, and if Republicans manage to secure a majority in the House, it deserves to be light. The former president was very concerned in the midterm elections, lending his support to Republican candidates across the country. In the primaries, most of Trump’s approved candidates emerged victorious, casting the Republican nominee into their races.
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The economy, which was a major challenge to the electorate in the 2022 midterm election cycle amid record inflation, was strong under President Trump, with rising middle-class household income, the lowest unemployment rate in part of a century and unprecedented jobs. growth.
The inventory market reached all-time highs, with the final Dow Jones above 20,000 for the first time in 2017 and surpassing 30,000 in 2020, and the S
Trump has also worked to reduce red tape and regulations facing American businesses and workers, and has run for policies to bring back chains of origin from abroad, in line with his “Make America Great Again” and “America First” messages.
As for industrial relations, Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and rescinded the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in January 2017, replacing it with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which included new protections for American trademarks. and workers
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Trump also signed an executive order establishing the government’s “Buy American, Hire American” policy and took steps to prevent outsourcing of overseas jobs.
Another factor for Americans in the midterm election cycle was energy and record fuel prices.
Under the Trump administration, Trump made sure that the U. S. The U. S. was the world’s largest producer of oil and herbal fuel, but President Biden reversed some of those policies and refocused on blank energy.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s foreign policy message about “peace through strength. “
Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, which Biden’s management began taking steps to reinstate when he took office in 2021.
Trump held a historic summit with Kim Jong Un in June 2018: he was the first US president. U. S. troops exercise to cross North Korea’s demilitarized zone. The Trump administration suspended ICBM verification, but North Korea continued to verify short- and medium-range ballistic missiles. North Korea stepped up its ballistic missile controls under the Biden administration.
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As for the Middle East, Trump’s leadership negotiated the Abraham Accords, a “historic peace agreement” between Israel and the United Arab Emirates that normalized relations and created bilateral agreements on “investment, tourism, direct flight, security, telecommunications, technology, energy. “, health care, culture, the environment, the status quo of reciprocal embassies and other spaces of mutual interest. “
In 2018, Trump’s management moved the U. S. embassy to the U. S. Ministry. UU. de Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a long-debated relocation to Washington, which showed that the U. S. was not yet in the U. S. UU. es officially Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Trump’s leadership has also rebuilt the military, with more than $2. 2 trillion in defense spending, providing pay raises to the military’s workforce and their families. Trump’s leadership has also created a new branch of the military, the Space Force.
Trump nominated and showed 3 conservative Supreme Court justices his presidency: Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
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Meanwhile, Trump’s administration has been running to make communities safer, signing the First Step Act, the landmark criminal justice reform law passed to decrease recidivism and former inmates effectively reintegrate into society.
President of Law and Order, Trump has launched his law enforcement aid and focused on protecting and securing the southern border between the United States and Mexico.
Trump’s presidency, from 2017 to 2021, has been overshadowed by investigations: several about his collusion with Russia to influence the 2016 election, some targeting his finances and others leading to impeachment, making him the first president in U. S. history to be impeached twice. .
Trump’s post-presidential life recalls his days in the Oval Office, marred by investigations, which the former president and his allies say were just part of an effort across their conflicting political parties to prevent him from running for re-election in 2024. .
The former president is recently under federal investigation through the Justice Department for allegedly mishandling classified documents under the Presidential Records Act. A federal ruling appointed Judge Raymond Dearie to serve as a special teacher and review the thousands of cases seized by the FBI. Trump and his legal team argued that none of the documents stolen from his Mar-a-Lago home were classified.
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The FBI conducted an unprecedented pre-dawn raid on his personal Mar-a-Lago in August, alleging that the former president had classified national security information.
The investigation comes amid a fraudulent investigation into the practices of Trump and his family through New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Trump raised $10. 2 million in August after the unprecedented FBI raid, Save America PAC’s largest fundraising in a month since Trump took office. As of mid-October, Trump’s Save America PAC had just $100 million in cash.
Also this summer, a federal appeals court paved the way for the House Ways and Means Committee to nonetheless download Trump’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service, anything the panel has been looking to download since 2019, under a law allowing disclosure of an individual tax back to the congressional committee.
Trump may only seek emergency action from the Supreme Court to temporarily block any release of those tax records, which will likely come under scrutiny now that he has to run for a third time.
When Trump first arrived in office in January 2017, the FBI was conducting a counterintelligence investigation to determine whether candidate Donald Trump and members of his crusade colluded or coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 election. This investigation was referred to internally in the office as the “Hurricane Crossfire. “and began on July 31, 2016.
This investigation was opened, the then director of the CIA, John Brennan, informed then-President Obama on July 28, 2016 of an alleged proposal through one of the foreign policy advisers of Hillary Clinton’s campaign “to defame Donald Trump by stoking a scandal alleging Russian interference. “. “
The special suggestion suggests that Robert Mueller was eventually appointed to take over the investigation, but, after nearly two years, Mueller’s investigation, which ended in March 2019, provided no evidence of conspiracy or criminal coordination between Trump’s crusade and Russian officials in the 2016 presidential election.
Special counsel John Durham is lately investigating the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.
A few weeks after Mueller’s investigation ended, Trump had a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and suggested he publish investigations into the Biden family’s movements and businesses in Ukraine, particularly Hunter Biden’s business dealings with Ukrainian herbal fuel company Burisma Holdings. It was and remains the subject of a federal investigation of criminals for their tax affairs, motivated by suspicious foreign movements.
The president’s request came after millions in U. S. military aid were frozen. The U. S. government is in Ukraine, which Democrats and some witnesses cited as a quid pro quo deal. Democrats also claimed that Trump interfered in the upcoming presidential election by asking a foreign leader to investigate a Democratic political opponent. .
Trump with Zelenskyy prompted a whistleblower complaint, which led to the House impeachment inquiry and ultimately impeachment proceedings in the Senate.
The House voted to impeach Trump in December 2019 on two charges: abuse and obstruction of Congress. The Senate voted to acquit him in February 2020.
Meanwhile, on January 6, 2021, pro-Trump rioters violated the U. S. Capitol. The U. S. is holding a joint congressional consultation to certify the effects of the Electoral College in favor of President Biden. Trump was permanently banned from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube after the riots. .
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The House then rewrote the articles of impeachment opposing him and eventually voted to impeach him for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, making him the first and only president to be impeached and ultimately acquitted, twice in history.
Trump’s legal team denounced the process as an unconstitutional “false charge” against a citizen, motivated by the Democrats’ “hatred” of Trump and a preference for silencing a political opponent.
The Senate voted to acquit, but if Trump had been convicted, the Senate would have to bar the 45th president from holding federal office again, preventing a race for the White House in 2024.
Kelly Laco of Fox News contributed to this report.
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