He destroyed his rivals one by one during the primaries, had to face a criminal conviction and has just escaped an assassination attempt: for Donald Trumphis official consecration as Presidential candidate for his party, crowns a very special year.
Trump, the popular
January 15, 2024, 8:36 p.m. The message “Trump wins in Iowa!”appears in capital letters in a ballroom rented by the candidate’s campaign team, to loud applause from his supporters.
The former president, who had been seen as a political corpse just a few months earlier, had just won the first Republican primary of the year in the agricultural state in the American Midwest. His rivals had left no part of Iowa untouched, even braving snowstorms to reach voters directly. But to no avail: Trump defeated them in 98 of the state’s 99 counties.
Then, little by little, the tycoon was left without competition. Only the former US ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, continued to challenge him by stirring up the “chaos” that a second Trump presidency would represent, an argument with which she tried to woo moderate Republicans.
Neither could Haley, and after the marathon day of “Super Tuesday”, On March 16, when 16 states voted, he decided to drop out of the race.
Trump, the condemned
“We, the jury, have reached a verdict”: The sentence, uttered shortly before 4:30 p.m. on May 30 in a Manhattan court in New York, made history.
After several weeks of an ultra-media process, Trump was declared “guilty“of the 34 charges against him in a case of hidden payments to a former porn actress to buy her silence during the 2016 campaign.
The historic ruling was a blow to the stormy septuagenarian, who became the first former US president to be convicted under a criminal law. He had to wait until July 11 to hear his sentence and find out whether he would go to jail.
However, he also achieved a resounding victory in the legal field, when at the end of June the Supreme Court, made up mostly of conservative judges, announced a postponement of its decision, while weakening the other criminal cases against the former president.
Trump, the miraculous
A few days later, on July 13, the Republican was speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania when shots rang out. A 20-year-old man had shot him several times from a rooftop, 135 metres away from the stage.
The image of a Trump with a bloody face and his fist raised, shouting “Fight, fight, fight!”He went around the world.
Trump, the consecrated
Less than 24 hours after escaping death, the former president landed in Milwaukee to attend his party’s convention.
Unlike in 2016, when he was chosen as the presidential candidate in the midst of a bitter dispute, this time he had no rivals, and he had the luxury of watching all his former rivals parade, not without a certain pleasure, paying him homage.
Outside the huge sports complex, where the event was taking place, attendees were fighting over T-shirts with a picture of their wounded hero and raised fists.
On Thursday evening, Trump will accept the Republican nomination for the November presidential election, which he has a strong chance of winning. It would be the crowning touch to an atypical year.
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Source: Gestion
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