The former U.S. President and 2024 Presidential hopeful gleefully trampled on well established truths in televised event
He said the 2020 election was “rigged.” He said former vice-president Mike Pence had the authority to overturn the election. He said he was inclined to pardon “a large portion” of the Jan. 6 rioters, whom he said we were “great people.”faced the questions of an audience of New Hampshire voters Wednesday night at a televised CNN event at St. Anselm College, a small, 134-year-old institution with a student body about the size of the wintertime population of Dawson City.
And there, at an institution that for decades has provided American presidential candidates a welcome forum for their views, the former president was calm, forceful, fluent. But he was also rambling, unfocused, and combative – and was eager, even gleeful, to present arguments that trampled on well-established truths and contradicted broadly recognized views of his own record and those of his rivals.
The former president’s answers to the voters’ questions were generally unremarkable, repeating positions that he has expressed before. But it is to these questions that he provided at least partial answers:Not a bit. He deflected, he exaggerated, he stuck to his talking points, often talking over Kaitlan Collins, the CNN moderator. And in doing so, he thrilled much of the crowd that clearly enjoyed the way Mr. Trump parried the questions from the moderator.
to prevail in its war with Russia, he repeatedly avoided giving a specific answer, saying instead, “I want everybody to stop dying.”In remarks last week before the City Club in Cleveland, former attorney-general William Barr said, “You may want his policies, but Trump will not deliver Trump policies. He will deliver chaos, and if anything lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back than they otherwise would be.
His appearance Wednesday night did little to dispel the Barr view. But the theme of the Trump persona, and thus of the third Trump presidential campaign, is to embrace chaos rather than to dampen or reject it. The implicit message of the evening was that Mr. Trump remains an outsider who believes chaos is a tool to fight the usual way of doing business in Washington.
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