![]() ![]() The Branch Davidians mostly eschewed politics. Koresh and 75 of his followers, many of them children, were killed as a fire consumed the compound. It ended on April 19, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation broke off negotiations with Mr. Trump posted that the “potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country.” Trump’s role in payments made to a porn star during the 2016 presidential campaign, he posted a message to supporters in all-caps to “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”Įarly Friday, still awaiting the grand jury’s action, Mr. In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Coalition conference this month, he described the 2024 presidential election as “the final battle” and vowed “retribution.” As word circulated this month of a possible indictment from a New York grand jury investigating Mr. agents searched his Mar-a-Lago resort in August looking for classified documents, he issued a statement declaring himself “currently under siege.” 6, 2021, in an attempt to overturn his defeat.Īs state and federal investigations have drawn closer to him in recent months, he has often portrayed himself in embattled or even apocalyptic terms. That list includes his equivocating response to the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that left one woman dead his message to the Proud Boys to “ stand back and stand by” in a presidential debate and his exhortations to supporters in Washington just before many stormed the Capitol on Jan. Trump has a long history of statements that feed the far right, even as he claims that was not his intent. Trump’s decision to begin his campaign there, if intentional in its nod to the siege, would echo Ronald Reagan’s August 1980 speech affirming his support of “states’ rights” at a county fair near Philadelphia, Miss., a town known for the murder of three civil rights activists 16 years earlier. It has remained a cause for contemporary far-right groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys. A polarizing episode in its own time, the deadly raid was invoked in the 1990s by right-wing extremists including Timothy McVeigh, often to the dismay of the surviving Branch Davidians. Trump’s choice of locale highlights the long political afterlife of the Waco standoff. “I’m going to the rally, for sure,” he added. G.O.P.’s Abortion Quandary: Some Republicans are warning that the uncompromising position of their party’s activist base on women’s reproductive rights could be leading them over an electoral cliff in 2024.Here are five reasons the Midwestern city was selected. 2024 Democratic Convention: President Biden and his party have picked Chicago to host next year’s Democratic National Convention.In Montana: An election bill moving through the Republican-led Legislature would rewrite the rules for a single race - a move seen as an effort to oust Senator Jon Tester, a Democrat.Broken Legislatures: The dysfunction that drove the ousting of two lawmakers from the Tennessee House of Representatives is increasingly common across the United States, fueled by one-party control of state legislatures, hyperpartisan politics and uncompetitive races.“Waco was an overreach of the government, and today the New York district attorney is practicing an overreach of the government again,” said Sharon Anderson, a retiree from Etowah, Tenn., who is traveling to Waco for Saturday’s event, her 33rd Trump rally. Trump claiming his persecution at the hands of prosecutors, and the historical resonance has not been lost on some of his most ardent followers. Asked whether the rally - the former president’s first in the city of 140,000 - was an intentional nod to the most infamous episode in Waco’s history, Steven Cheung, the campaign’s spokesman, replied via email that the Waco site was chosen “because it is centrally located and close to all four of Texas’ biggest metropolitan areas - Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio - while providing the necessary infrastructure to hold a rally of this magnitude.”īut the rally comes amid a spate of increasingly aggressive statements by Mr. Trump has not linked his Waco visit to the anniversary. ![]()
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