DrEnter a luxury resort in Maryland, on the sidelines of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest annual gathering of the American right, a retired former firefighter from Connecticut, wearing a “cowboy” hat bearing the businessman's name on his head. He told Lusa that the future of the United States of America depended on Trump winning, and he assumed that “at this moment, there is nothing he could do” that would cause you to change your mind.
“I think they're just trying to find something to try to incriminate. No human being can be investigated and charged the way they were and still come out 'clean' like they did. Obviously if they look into someone's life, they'll look at it,” 50-year-old Thea said. We'll find something, whatever it is. But they have not yet been able to convict him of anything.”
“The punitive measures imposed so far are ridiculous. We live in a society where non-violent crimes are punished, while rapists and murderers remain free. They would rather go after Trump on false charges and use taxpayer money to do so.” He defended this by saying: “People cannot become targets in this way in a free country like the United States.”
In recent weeks, Donald Trump took a hard hit to his finances when a New York court ordered him to pay a fine of $364 million (337.7 million euros) for bank fraud and $83.3 million (76.6 million euros) for writer E. Jean Carroll in a defamation case.
Last year, a New York jury actually awarded E. Jean Carroll five million dollars (4.61 million euros) after concluding that the businessman sexually assaulted the writer in the 1990s at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan, New York.
In addition to the civil cases, the former president faces four criminal cases totaling 91 charges, including conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The first said: “I don't see anything that would make me stop supporting him. You only have to look at the interviews he's done in the past to see how much he loves this country. I've heard a lot of stories about how nice he is.” Firefighter.
Roger, a 52-year-old cybersecurity engineer who traveled from Colorado to Maryland to see Trump — who speaks today at CPAC — also told Lusa that the businessman has his full support.
“Frankly, at this point there is nothing Trump can do that would make me stop supporting him,” he said.
Regarding the accusations weighing on the Republican, Roger said he believes “it's all just smoke to try to distract people from the bad job that current President Joe Biden is doing.”
He stressed, “I believe that all the accusations against him are complete nonsense.”
Joining the list of Trump's unconditional supporters is Rene, a 51-year-old conservative from New Jersey, who admitted that he has been a Republican supporter “for many years.”
“I will not stop now,” he stressed.
He added: “There is nothing that would make me turn my back on him. Maybe if he joined the deep state, but I know that will never happen. Everything he is going through now makes me want to support him even more.”
Regarding the legal problems facing Trump, Rene hopes that the businessman will take revenge if he returns to the White House, after the presidential elections scheduled for November.
He added: “What they are doing to Trump is terrible, as if there was a separate judicial system just to attack Trump. I hope that when he wins the election, he will prosecute them all and put them all in prison for what they are doing to him.” He defended him.
On the other hand, a 22-year-old student, who preferred to remain anonymous, told Lusa that he would be able to withdraw his support for Donald Trump if the businessman suffered from the same “mental problems as Biden,” but he estimated that this would be “of Unlikely to happen.
For the young man, “it is clear” that the accusations directed against the Republican are the result of “improper use of the law” and are only being made because he is a presidential candidate.
“To me, this is an abuse of the legal system,” he added.
The advanced age of Joe Biden, the current president and Democratic nominee for the White House, has gained prominence again on the campaign trail, following confusion over the language he has presented publicly.
Biden, who is 81 years old, would have been 86 years old at the end of his second term.
Trump, who will turn 78 in June and is the favorite in the Republican primary, will be 82 at the end of his second term as head of state.
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