Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks concerning the recent derailment of a train carrying hazardous waste, during an event at a fireplace station in East Palestine, Ohio, February 22, 2023.
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Former president Donald Trump said on Saturday he’ll remain within the 2024 presidential race even when he faces criminal charges in the continued investigations into his handling of White House documents and alleged 2020 election tampering.
Trump made the pledge in response to Newsmax’s James Rosen, a former Fox News reporter, at a press conference on the Conservative Political Motion Conference, or CPAC, Rosen tweeted on Saturday.
Trump launched his 2024 White House bid in November, every week after Republicans lost various necessary midterm races.
Recent polling of GOP voters showed that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, widely deemed Trump’s foremost competition, would beat Trump if the 2 got here head-to-head. DeSantis has not yet launched a bid for the presidency.
Trump’s campaign takes place amid an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into whether he removed nearly 3,000 documents from the White House and potentially tampered with 2020 election results. The FBI seized nearly 200,000 pages of documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in September.
The investigation got here after Trump was impeached twice with charges of high crimes and misdemeanors, once for allegedly using U.S. foreign aid to extort Ukraine and a second time for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol.
