Former President Donald Trump announced during his speech at CPAC that he intends to continue his bid for the presidency in 2024.
Former President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he will continue to run for president in 2024 despite the ongoing investigations into his handling of White House records and claims of electoral tampering in 2020.
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Trump made the vow during a news conference at the Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, in response to James Rosen of Newsmax, a former Fox News reporter. Rosen tweeted on Saturday that Trump’s assurance was in response to his remark.
Trump announced his campaign for the White House in 2024 in November, a week after Republicans suffered significant losses in several crucial midterm elections.
A recent poll of Republican voters revealed that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is widely believed to be Trump’s chief rival, would defeat Trump in a head-to-head matchup. The official launch of DeSantis’s campaign for the presidency has not yet occurred.
Trump’s campaign is going place while the Department of Justice investigates whether he illegally removed almost 3,000 documents from the White House and possibly influenced the results of the 2020 election. In September, the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and seized around 200,000 pages of documents.
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Trump Criminal Charges
Friday, attorneys for Donald Trump petitioned a federal court to prohibit Mike Pence, Trump’s former vice president, from testifying before a grand jury about alleged efforts to overturn the former president’s 2020 election loss by invoking executive privilege. Pence was expected to speak regarding the purported efforts to reverse the election.
The new idea was presented during a private meeting on Friday. This is not the first time Trump’s legal team has invoked the president’s privilege to prevent Vice President Pence from testifying.
Following Trump’s double impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors, the investigation was begun. The first time Trump was impeached, he was accused of using U.S. foreign aid to blackmail Ukraine, and the second time, he was accused of instigating the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.