Trump launches 2024 campaign as Ivanka and Don Jr skip Mar-a-Lago speech

1668570600Oliver O’Connell16 November 2022 03:501668570258Ivanka Trump, who did not attend tonight’s campaign launch, has released a statement saying she no longer wishes to be involved in politics and will support her father outside the political arena.Oliver O’Connell16 November 2022 03:441668570001Donald Trump, declaring his candidacy for president on Tuesday night at Mar-a-Lago, claimed that he went ‘decades without a war’ despite the fact that he only served as president for four years.Abe Asher reports on the curious statement.Comment comes as Mr Trump announces his candidacy for president in Florida Oliver O’Connell16 November 2022 03:401668569401Meanwhile, MSNBC did not even carry the speech from Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, leaving right-wing Fox News as the only major cable news network to stick with it before they too went back to the studio.Daniel Dale, the CNN Trump fact-checker, took to Twitter during the speech and said: ‘Trump has not gotten more accurate.’Here’s how the US media and commentators received the long-expected announcement: ‘This is one of the most low-energy, uninspiring speeches I’ve ever heard from Trump’ said former Trump press aide Oliver O’Connell16 November 2022 03:301668569021’America’s comeback starts right now,’ Mr Trump said on Tuesday evening from Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach, Florida mansion that was searched by FBI agents in August.’In order to make America great and glorious again I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,’ said Mr Trump, who is currently a subject in no fewer than three separate criminal investigations into his conduct.Andrew Feinberg reports on the announcement: ‘In order to make America great and glorious again I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States’, former president says Oliver O’Connell16 November 2022 03:231668568943Mr Trump’s entry into the 2024 Republican presidential primary just one week after a disastrous result in the 2022 midterm elections is no surprise to anyone who has paid attention to his public appearances over the last two years.The twice-impeached ex-president never stopped holding his signature campaign rallies, and has never stopped raising funds for his Save America political action committee (but won’t have access to those funds as a presidential candidate).But after most of Mr Trump chosen candidates for Senate and a handful of key governor’s races fell flat against their Democratic opponents, his road back to the White House may not be so smooth this time.Here are some key questions the president’s new bid raises:Here are the key questions raised by Trump’s comeback bid Oliver O’Connell16 November 2022 03:221668568801After spending a lifetime exploiting people and discarding them like trash when he no longer needs them, Trump is panicking as the same thing is beginning to happen to him.After spending a lifetime exploiting people and discarding them like trash when he no longer needs them, Trump is panicking as the same thing is beginning to happen to himOliver O’Connell16 November 2022 03:201668568307As Trump wraps up his speech he says: ‘This is not just a campaign, this is a quest to save our country,’ adding it is a ‘very incredible but dangerous journey.’Closing out with his usual call to ‘Make America Great Again,’ the former president finished his speech after approximately 61 minutes.Oliver O’Connell16 November 2022 03:111668567982Trump calls out his family members including former first lady Melania Trump acknowledging it has not been a joyride for her.Oliver O’Connell16 November 2022 03:061668567729After slipping into grievances about the Steele dossier, the former president demands and end to alleged cheating in elections, demanding voter ID, same-day voting, and only paper ballots.He adds that ‘we want all votes counted by election night’.Mr Trump adds he takes the issue very personally.Oliver O’Connell16 November 2022 03:02