Trump marks Christmas Day with furious rant claiming the US is ‘dying from within’ - The Independent

Donald Trump decided against spreading joyousness and cheer and opted alternatively to state that the United States was “dying from within” arsenic helium wished Americans vacation greetings connected Sunday, lashing retired successful a bid of posts connected his Truth Social platform.

The erstwhile president, who was described successful a caller New York Magazineprofile arsenic connected to lone a tiny interior ellipse of aides and advisers arsenic helium pursues a 3rd bid for the White House, remains mostly holed up astatine Mar-a-Lago and his different Florida properties arsenic helium faces a bevy of transgression and civilian investigations.

Those ever-present issues were mirrored successful Mr Trump’s temper connected Sunday greeting arsenic helium noted the withering acold overmuch of the state is experiencing this Christmas and blamed his governmental foes for destroying American nine and, successful particular, for not doing much to tamp down connected amerciable migration astatine the confederate border.

“On this precise acold but beauteous Christmas Day, look astatine our Nation NOW connected the Southern Border compared to lone a abbreviated clip agone during the Trump Administration,” wrote Mr Trump.

“We had the astir SECURE Border successful our history, versus the “horror show” that that [sic] is happening now, with record-setting numbers of people, galore of them hardened Criminals (including Killers, Human Traffickers and Drug Dealers), POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY astatine a complaint the likes of which we person ne'er seen before. The USA is dying from within!!!” helium declared.

But the erstwhile president wasn’t done there. He went connected to station a 2nd aggravated screed minutes later, which concluded: “TODAY, LIKE NEVER BEFORE, WE ARE A NATION IN DECLINE, A FAILING NATION!”

He aboriginal resumed his aggravated screeds with a bid of Christmas day missives, including 1 accusing Democrats of having “weaponised the transgression justness strategy astatine a level ne'er earlier seen,” adding that those efforts see “no borders and crooked elections” and claiming the US is successful “third satellite trouble”.

He separately condemned the Electoral Count Act betterment connection included successful the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations measure which is present headed to President Joe Biden’s table for signature.

Mr Trump has repeatedly claimed that the legislative propulsion to clarify the 1887 instrumentality governing however Congress counts electoral votes shows helium was correcting believing his erstwhile vice president, Mike Pence, had the powerfulness to unilaterally cull votes from plaything states won by Mr Biden successful 2020.

No reputable adept connected US instrumentality of the US constitution has endorsed Mr Trump’s claims, but helium has nevertheless persisted successful suggesting Mr Pence could person declared himself and Mr Trump the winners of the 2020 predetermination against the wishes of American voters.

He claimed connected Sunday that Mr Pence “did so person the powerfulness to nonstop Electoral Votes backmost to State Legislatures for reapproval contempt the changeless drum from Democrats and RINOS that helium ‘ABSOLUTELY DID NOT’” and noted that the omnibus appropriations measure (which helium misspelled arsenic the “ominous” bill) has “clarifying language”.

“So wherefore the caller language? Because it was conscionable different governmental Con Job!” helium added.

Mr Trump famously ran for president successful 2016 connected a committedness to physique a carnal obstruction on the US-Mexico borderline to power amerciable migration. That obstruction was ne'er completed, though the Biden medication continued immoderate operation and repair efforts aft taking implicit successful 2021.

His rant was a motion of what galore Trumpworld correspondents person reported done firsthand interviews with the president and his allies arsenic good arsenic investigation of his nationalist events, which person astatine slightest temporarily ceased pursuing the decision of the 2022 midterms: that the erstwhile president is present focused connected small much than getting revenge against Joe Biden and the others helium sees arsenic liable for his governmental decision successful 2020.

The ex-president present stands connected shakier electoral crushed than ever before. His rivals successful the GOP smelled humor successful the h2o aft his chosen acolytes Kari Lake, Doug Mastriano, Herschel Walker and others fell level successful this year’s midterm contests, starring to Democrats retaining power of the Senate and astir heading disconnected GOP power of the House.

And helium remains beset by transgression investigations of his campaign’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 predetermination successful Georgia, not to notation the ongoing Justice Department expansive assemblage probe into January 6 and the effort to obstruct the peaceful transportation of powerfulness to Mr Biden.

His company, the Trump Organization, was besides precocious convicted of a strategy to shield enforcement wage from taxation authorities.