Trump's visit to Iowa coincides with third anniversary of his supporters' attack on the Capitol

Former U.S. President, potential Republican candidate Donald Trump On Saturday, during an election tour of Iowa, he attended two rallies on the third anniversary of the storm House of Parliament In Washington, American voters were divided over the incident.

On January 15, this state in the midwestern United States organized a popular electoral committee (COCOS) to launch a primary election to select the Republican candidate for this fall’s presidential election. It has figured prominently in U.S. presidential campaigns for half a century.

Trump seeks to return to the White House on January 20, 2025, and despite 4 judicial charges being filed against him at the federal level, he will face the voters' judgment within 8 days for the first time since leaving the White House on January 20, 2021. in a turbulent atmosphere.

Donald Trump arrived in Iowa on Friday to address an election rally in Newton without mentioning his supporters' attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 speech and then delivered a speech at a school located in Clinton, which borders Illinois.

In Sioux Center on Friday, Trump accused the president of Joe Biden He called Biden's speech in Pennsylvania “pathetic” and in it “stoked fear” by comparing the Republican billionaire's speech to that of “Nazi Germany.”

“Political Violence”

Trump described the Biden era as “a continuous series of weakness, incompetence, corruption and failure.”

Trump said that “in 10 days, the people of this state will cast the most important vote of their lives,” considering the conditions and challenges of the 2024 campaign “even more” important than when he won the presidency in 2016.

Despite the judicial charges against him and the risk of jail time for trying to overturn the results of the November 2020 presidential election, polls show that 60% of the Republican vote supports Donald Trump against his main rivals Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, this is unprecedented. progress.

In Iowa and a handful of other conservative states, the seventy-year-old billionaire who has transformed America's political landscape in less than a decade has a fiercely loyal fan base who can vote for his justice. Turn a blind eye to the problem.

A poll jointly conducted by the “Washington Post” and “The Washington Post” showed that the attack on the Congressional headquarters three years ago still caused deep divisions in the United States, with 25% of Americans and 44% supporting Trump. of voters believe the FBI was behind the attack. University of Maryland.

On Saturday, the FBI announced the arrest in Florida of three people wanted in connection with the Capitol attack.

In a wide-ranging investigation that lasted 35 months and is still ongoing, U.S. authorities have charged more than 1,200 people across the country's 50 states for participating in the January 6, 2021 insurrection, and more than half of them have been convicted.

Biden confirmed on Friday that Trump and his supporters had called for “political violence,” saying, “Trump and his supporters – supporters of the 'Make America Great Again' slogan – not only espouse political violence, they demean it.” .”

appear in court

Trump is scheduled to appear in court in Washington on March 4 on charges of conspiring to overturn the election results. He also faces racketeering charges in Georgia, where he tried to overturn the southern state's election results after losing.

The next day, March 5, about 15 states including Maine and Colorado will hold primaries. The time when voters go to the polls is also called “Super Tuesday.”

Biden, who trails Trump narrowly in recent polls, cast his Republican rival as a threat to the country in a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Valley Forge is an American Historic Site because it is one of the major historic sites in the United States. Military encampment during the Revolutionary War.

Biden accused Trump of using “Nazi Germany” rhetoric, saying the former Republican president “talked about the poisoned blood of Americans and used the exact same rhetoric that Nazi Germany used.”

In an article published in The Atlantic on Friday, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized “Donald Trump’s actions” in the wake of the Capitol attack, arguing that “the threat to our democracy remains is real” even 3 years later.