“You will be vindicated and proud and the thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system will be defeated, discredited and totally disgraced,' former President Donald Trump said today in Waco. “That's what's happening.”
PUBLISHED 2:43 PM EDT Mar. 25, 2023WACO, Texas — A defiant and incendiary Donald Trump, facing a potential indictment, held the first rally of his 2024 presidential campaign Saturday in Waco, Texas, a city made famous by deadly resistance against law enforcement.
The rally opened with a song featuring a choir of men imprisoned for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol singing the national anthem Some of his recent rhetoric has echoed language he used before the Capitol insurrection by a mob of his supporters seeking to stop the transfer of power to Democrat Joe Biden, who won the presidential election.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said before Trump’s arrival that he was the one who had suggested Waco as the venue. Any suggestion Trump had picked the city because of the anniversary was "fake news. I picked Waco!” he told the crowd. Among them was Eugene Torres, 41, who said he was unfazed by the prospect that Trump could be indicted.
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