Mayor Francis Suarez is gearing up for a likely presidential campaign announcement.
Calls of"swamp monster" followed the mayor as he moved through the crowd, with members yelling at him as he did so. The insult stems from a line often heard in Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. He promised to"drain the swamp," meaning he would rid Washington, D.C., of political insiders and corruption and make the federal government honest.
Since his failed 2020 campaign and Smith's investigations of the handling of classified documents and Trump's actions leading up to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Trump has accused the federal government of conducting a"witch hunt" against him. Some of his supporters with the same outlook may see Suarez—who is reportedly gearing up for a likely presidential campaign announcement this week—as one of the politicians in the metaphorical swamp.
But given that Suarez has called Trump's federal indictment"un-American," it's not clear why MAGA Republicans would speak harshly against the Miami mayor, other than the fact that he may be challenging Trump in the upcoming GOP primaries.
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