​The main annual forum of the American right has Donald Trump as an absolute hero, and before the former Republican president closed the proceedings himself, his family mobilized the Republican base on Saturday night with a clear message about the prospect of the 2024 presidential election: “Vote with your wallet!” – writes EFE.

On stage at the National Harbor Convention Center on the outskirts of Washington, where the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is being held March 1-4, former President Donald Trump Jr.’s son, as well as Trump Jr.’s girlfriend and former adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Lara Trump, the wife of another the son of an American billionaire, Eric, and a former adviser to a former resident of the White House.

“It’s like we’re in MAGA country,” Donald Trump Jr. declared to an enthusiastic, if not very large, crowd.

The MAGA Make America Great Again logo (let’s make America great again – no), the slogan Trump used in his first election campaign, is proudly displayed at this forum, ubiquitous on t-shirts, stickers and caps, as well as in the speeches of participants.

“We need to start voting with wallets”

“We need to start voting with our wallets, helping those who help us,” said Donald Trump Jr., who

and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, his father’s business concern.

In his opinion, the United States needs a president “who is not the property of other people” because the administration of Democrat Joe Biden has made the country “unrecognizable”: “And it will remain so if we do not defend ourselves.” and we say ‘enough!'”

According to Donald Trump Jr.’s life partner, Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Democrats’ sole purpose is to “destroy” people’s lives.

“We will say no to open borders, chaos, attacks on US energy independence, capitulation to environmental alarmists, reckless spending, and turning our schools into educational tools for the radical left,” she said.

“Our fight to save America has only just begun. Are we ready to remove Joe Biden from the White House? “I can think of no one more suited than my father-in-law to be the 47th President of the United States,” Lara Trump said.

In her speech, Lara Trump insisted that she is confident in the victory of Donald Trump, who was president from 2017-2021: “We must not forget that six years ago, no one believed that Donald Trump would become president. People believed that it was a joke, a publicity stunt. And when he succeeded, the same people made great efforts to get rid of him and stand in his way. And even so, look what he accomplished.”

Strategist Steve Bannon is turning CPAC into Donald Trump’s forum

Strategist Steve Bannon spoke on Friday at CPAC for the candidacy of the former president for the nomination of the Republican Party in the presidential elections of 2024. CPAC, which ended up being almost exclusively a Trumpist convention under the patronage of this controversial political adviser, comments EFE.

Bannon spoke at CPAC to advocate for Trump while criticizing the GOP leadership. He estimated that “good and decent people” are running in the Republican Party primaries next year, among whom he mentioned the former US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, who has already announced that she will run for the party, as well as the possible presidential election. candidates Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, and Mike Pompeo, former secretary of state.

“That’s all well and good, but we don’t have the time to learn on the job compared to a guy who only studied for four years” in the White House, Bannon said, referring to Trump, whose speech was met with applause from the audience.

Bannon said that Trump is not only the de facto leader of the Republican Party, but also “the leader of the most powerful political movement in the history of the United States,” an allusion to MAGA. Bannon also criticized conservative “oligarchs” such as Senate Republican leader Mitch Connell, who did not attends CPAC.

In the rest of his speech, Bannon mixed conspiracy theories with lies and quickly touched on a wide range of topics: he talked about the “most dangerous moment in history” after World War II, the dispute between Democrats and Republicans over the United States. debt ceiling and threats from the “Ayatollah of Iran”.

This CPAC conference marks Bannon’s return to the public stage after his troubles with the judicial system. In October 2022, he was sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to cooperate with a now-dissolved legislative committee investigating the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters.

Notable absences from CPAC among GOP heavyweights include conservative congressional leaders Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, Ron DeSantis and former Trump vice president Mike Pence.

The icing on the cake for CPAC — a conference some are calling the “Woodstock of Trump supporters” — will be a speech by Donald Trump himself on Saturday. And the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, nicknamed “Trump from the tropics”, will make a speech.

CPAC, The Pot of Everything: Scandal, Love, Mothers vs. ‘Awakened Suggestion’ and an Obscure Ancient Chinese Group

The expulsion of a white supremacist for anti-Semitism and accusations of sexual assault against one of the organizers cast a bad light on CPAC.

The CPAC sessions were held these days in the presence of the “elephant in the room” that no one dares to talk about: the allegations against the conference president Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes Schlapp. Two days before the conference, the couple was sued by a former employee for sexual assault and defamation.

The complaint is based on allegations dating back to October 2022, when Matt Schlapp allegedly touched and made lewd advances to a female staffer for former Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker. According to The Washington Post, Schlapp, the leader of the American Conservative Union, an organizer of CPAC, is under internal investigation accused of maintaining a “toxic” work environment.

Adding to this is another controversy involving Matt Schlapp, who expelled white racist Nick Fuentes from CPAC for allegedly making anti-Semitic comments. However, Fuentes is no stranger to controversy, making headlines in November 2022 after having dinner with Trump and rapper Kanye West, who has also made anti-Semitic comments, at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence, a meeting criticized by some GOP groups.

H2: NFSC: Balloons fly above you, but CPAC is among you

An obscure lobby group founded by Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui that opposes the Chinese Communist Party, the New Federal State of China (NFSC), is a ubiquitous presence in the corridors of CPAC. Guo, EFE writes, fled China in 2014 before being accused of defrauding his business partners and bribing Chinese officials, US media reported. After arriving in the United States, he became a promoter and financier of far-right conspiracy theories, to the point that he allocated funds to cancel the results of the 2020 election, in which Democrat Joe Biden won over Trump.

NFSC volunteers present at CPAC smile and hand out posters to attendees that read, “Balloons fly above you, but CPAC is among you.” The image of the Capitol is printed on paper in the colors of the US flag.

The NFSC is the group with the largest presence at CPAC, with three major workstations and dozens of volunteers, the vast majority of whom are of Asian descent.

US Mothers Group Crusade Against “Wake Up Teaching”

In the US, a group of women is fighting against the “woke indoctrination” that promotes political correctness. I am Moms for Freedom, advocating for parents’ right to make decisions about their children’s education, and participating in CPAC to make their voices heard.

Their position at CPAC leaves no doubt about the goals they are fighting for: the “survival of the United States” and the right to act as the “guardians” of school districts, because they believe that what they learn in school determines the future of the nation.

The pandemic was the defining element that led Tina Deskovich and Tiffany Justice to found this movement in January 2021. Tina Deskovich has five children, one more than her colleague Tiffany Justice, and together they created this organization, which now has 115,000 members and 275 branches in 44 of the 50 US states.

Parents’ rights have been under attack for “some time,” Deskovich says. Her goal? A policy that allows schools to “change children’s first and last names”, decide “which toilets to use” or “which rooms to sleep in on field trips” “without notifying parents”.

Deskovich believes that children have the right to express themselves, but do not have the legal authority to make such decisions about them without the consent of their parents.

“There’s a reason why in the US you have to be 18 to get a tattoo, get your ears pierced or sign a contract, because that’s when you’re legally of age to make decisions,” she says.

Moms for Freedom also includes fathers and grandfathers, but 85% of its members are mothers, writes EFE.

I’m looking for love

Love and business coexist peacefully at CPAC. Dating app The Right Stuff is speaking at the conference, along with others that focus on less frivolous topics such as the “communist danger of China” or the fight against abortion. activists

At the stand of the program you can meet one of its founders, John McEntee, who previously worked in the administration of President Donald Trump before turning into a “suitor”.

McEntee told EFE that he was approached by many attendees during the CPAC conference who recognized him because, he said, they use his app on their mobile phones. And when you think they are saying that pleasure and business should not be mixed, ironically sums up the Spanish press agency. (Source: Agerpres)