President Trump recorded a two-minute video on Thursday that was performed on the Republican Nationwide Committee winter assembly that night, by wh
President Trump recorded a two-minute video on Thursday that was performed on the Republican Nationwide Committee winter assembly that night, by which he spoke solely in upbeat phrases in regards to the 2020 election and thanked the committee members for his or her “loyalty.”
The video got here at a time when a number of Republicans within the Senate and a few within the Home, in addition to former administration officers, are in search of to distance themselves from Mr. Trump after a crowd of supporters rapidly went from listening to an inflammatory speech he made on Wednesday to a lethal mob overtaking the Capitol.
Mr. Trump had been contemplating one other marketing campaign of his personal in 2024, one thing many Republican officers now see as an impossibility after the violence on Wednesday.
The president by no means talked about the violence throughout the video to the Republican committee, and he additionally stayed away from the conspiracy theories and false claims of widespread fraud in regards to the election that he had been spreading for 2 months.
Within the video, Mr. Trump thanks “all my unbelievable pals on the R.N.C.,” the committee the place his loyalist, Ronna McDaniel, is predicted to be re-elected for an additional two-year time period. He talked about receiving tens of millions extra votes than he did in 2016, the variety of Republican ladies who have been elected to Congress in addition to the coronavirus vaccine.
“I need to thanks in your friendship and your loyalty,” he stated.