Draining the Swamp is no longer enough. Now it’s time to “totally obliterate the Deep State,” as former President Donald Trump pledged to do if elected in 2024 during his CPAC 2023 speech, saying “I am your retribution” to the cheering crowd.
Speaking on that, he first said “In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution.”
Continuing, he pledged to the crowd that he and the MAGA base would continue the war on the Deep State and Swamp that they started seven years ago, saying “For seven years you and I have been engaged in an epic struggle to rescue our country from the people who hate it and want to absolutely destroy it. We are going to finish what we started. We started something that was a miracle. We’re going to complete the mission, we’re going to see this battle through to ultimate victory. We’re going to make America great again.”
Then, as the crowd chanted “four more years,” Trump declared total war on the Deep State, vowing to completely eradicate it and saying:
“With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the war mongers… We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists. We will throw off the political class that hates our country … We will beat the Democrats. We will rout the fake news media. We will expose and appropriately deal with the Rinos [Republicans in name only]. We will evict Joe Biden from the White House. And we will liberate America from these villains and scoundrels once and for all.”
He later pledged to remove the remaining RINOs from the party, saying “We had a Republican party that was ruled by freaks, neocons, globalists, open border zealots and fools but we are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush.”
Predictably, Trump’s speech drove the left absolutely insane. John Avlon, for example, appeared on “CNN This Morning” to clutch his pearls and “warn” the American people about Trump, saying:
“It is very easy to treat Trump as a sideshow because if you look at his posts on Truth Social if you look at that rambling, 145-minute lie-filled speech, you’d say this is someone who is not well. And yet, we need to concede he’s, right now, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, and the more crowded the primary is, the more likely he is to win.”
Continuing, he went on to accuse Trump of attacking “our democracy,” saying “there’s a danger of sleepwalking past these absurdities, these inanities, these divisive fireballs the former president is throwing, simply because he is somebody who is under multiple investigations right now. Somebody who tried to overturn our democracy. But that is not a disqualifier in today’s Republican Party. So I think we need to be wide-eyed about that right now.”
Donald Trump at CPAC: “I am your warrior, I am your Justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution… I will totally obliterate the Deep State.”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 4, 2023
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