In the wake of his historic federal indictment, former President Trump steps on stage in front of more than 2,000 people in Georgia.
Attendees listen as former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during the Georgia GOP convention.Trump is also under investigation in the state over whether he broke the law when he asked Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” more than 11,000 votes he needed to win the state in 2020, a phone call that was recorded.Several in attendance wore stickers with a red line over the word “voting machines,” signaling a belief they thought the 2020 election was stolen.
Kemp and nearly all of Georgia’s statewide elected officials did not attend the event. Raffensperger told Fox News Saturday afternoon that was by design. He said statewide officer holders were “not invited.”Another person in attendance was the conservative Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor, R-Ga., whom the former president brought on stage for brief remarks.
Some speakers did avoid the Trump indictment issue altogether, focusing their comments on more traditional Republican favorites like criticizing federal spending, Biden and the government's Covid response, but there were still plenty of fiery defenses of Trump's days ahead of his arraignment scheduled for Tuesday in Miami.
“If you want to get to President Trump, you’re going to have to go through me, and 75 million Americans just like me,” former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake told Georgia Republicans Friday night. “And most of us are card-carrying members of the [National Rifle Association]. That’s not a threat, that’s a public service announcement.”
The script has flipped, at least for now, for most of Trump’s political foes within his own party. For conservatives across the country, the Trump indictment does not represent the delivery of justice, but rather a weaponized Department of Justice helmed by President Joe Biden, who is using it take aim at his political opponents.to a free society,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump’s chief rival, tweeted Friday.
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