US: Donald Trump sets up ‘Office of the Former President’ in Florida
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Former US President on Monday established an official post-presidency office in Palm Beach County setting up a vehicle for future public appearances and statements.
“The Office of the Former President” will manage Trump’s correspondence, public statements, appearance and official activities, according to a press release from the office.
“Today, the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump formally opened the Office of the Former President,” the statement said.
It added, “The Office will be responsible for managing President Trump’s correspondence, public statements, appearances and official activities to advance the interests of the US and to carry the agenda of the Trump administration.”
“President Trump will always and forever be a champion for the American people,” it further said.
The Hill reported that the title of the office could fuel speculation that Trump may not run for president again in 2024, something he and his advisers have not definitively weighed in on.
The former President has been publicly silent since leaving the last week for his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. He has been banned from Twitter and suspended from other major social media platforms in the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6.
Trump briefly spoke to a reporter at his golf club a few days after leaving office, though he did not make extensive comments about his future plans. Trump is expected to reside in Florida, and he is surrounded by a few aides.
Allies have said Trump is eyeing supporting primary challenges against Republicans who he feels wronged him following his election defeat, such as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (Wyo.), who was one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach Trump earlier this month.
The US House of Representatives has delivered to the Senate the articles of impeachment against former President for inciting the riot at the Capitol building on January 6. Last week, US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that Trump’s impeachment trial is scheduled to begin the week of February 8.
It will be the first time in US history that any president faced two impeachment trials or that any president was impeached after he left office.
On January 13, one week before Biden took office, the lower chamber in the US Congress voted 232-197 to impeach Trump on charges of inciting violence against the US government. Although Trump is no longer president, the Senate could still convict him and vote to ban him from ever running for office again.
It was the second time Trump was impeached by the Democratic-controlled House. The first time he was acquitted by the Senate in February of last year (with only 1 Republican voting in favor of one article of impeachment). However, unlike the impeachment over the Ukraine aid scandal, GOP (Grand Old Party – another name for the Republican Party) House lawmakers broke rank–with 10 voting to impeach Trump.
It will take 67 votes in the 100-seat Senate to convict Trump on the impeachment charges. This would require 17 GOP senators to break rank. Trump is readying an impeachment defense team for next month’s Senate trial, though he has not commented on it publicly.
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Trump opened an ‘Office of the Former President’ to issue statements from Palm Beach as he remains barred from most social media
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Trump opened the “Office of the Former President” on Monday to announce post-presidency plans.
The office said it would also “carry on the agenda of the Trump Administration.”
Trump was barred from several social-media outlets, including Twitter, after the Capitol riot.
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Former President Donald Trump has opened a new “Office of the Former President” to announce and drive his future plans from his new base in Florida, as he remains barred from most social media.
On Monday, a number of journalists received the first missive from the office, which pledged to carry on the work of the Trump administration.
“Today, the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, formally opened the Office of the Former President,” the statement said.
“The office will be responsible for managing President Trump’s correspondences, public statements, appearances, and official activities to advance the interests of the United States and to carry on the agenda of the Trump Administration through advocacy, organizing, and public activism.”
The new office’s logo, which you can see in the tweet below, also appears to be a black-and-white copy of the logo of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
Trump left Washington, DC, for his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach on the morning of January 20, hours before President Joe Biden was inaugurated.
In the run-up to the departure, a number of reports detailed how Trump was mulling over a series of career moves to pursue in his civilian life.
Trump was said to be considering reviving his TV career, building a $2 billion presidential library, launching a TV or social-media network, or running for president again in 2024.
Since becoming an ex-president, Trump has kept a low profile, having not made any public appearances or statements.
On January 22, he told the Washington Examiner: “We’ll do something, but not just yet.”
His relative silence could also be largely due to his being stripped of many of social-media accounts in the wake of the January 6 riot by his supporters on the US Capitol.
Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter — his preferred platform — all permanently suspended him after the attack. YouTube temporarily suspended his channel from uploading new content.
The announcement of Trump’s new office came on the same day the Senate received an impeachment article from the House of Representatives, which charged Trump with inciting the crowd that went on to storm the Capitol.
Trump was impeached for the second time by the House of Representatives on January 13. His Senate trial will begin on February 9.
On Sunday, footage posted to social media by CBS12 reporter Paxton Boyd showed a bi-plane flying low over West Palm Beach trailing a banner that read: “TRUMP YOU PATHETIC LOSER GO BACK TO MOSCOW.”
While little else is known about Trump’s day-to-day schedule at Mar-a-Lago, he has been angrily watching a series of TV interviews given by Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to The Daily Beast.
Fauci, the US top infectious-disease expert, was maligned by Trump during the pandemic, and said last week that it was “a somewhat liberating feeling” to be working with the new Biden administration.
Read more: Biden bucks Trump’s pandemic approach that favored friendlier states and brings Republican governors into the fold
The interviews caused Trump to remonstrate out loud that Fauci was “incompetent” and that he should have fired the expert when he had the chance, The Daily Beast reported.
Trump officially opens ‘Office of the Former President’
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Former President Donald Trump has officially opened an office in Florida that will serve to continue his political agenda.
A statement from the office on Monday night said that it will manage Trump’s correspondence, public statements, appearances, and official activities to “advance the interest of the United States.”
The office will also “carry on the agenda of the Trump Administration through advocacy, organizing, and public activism,” the statement says.
The move comes less than a week after Trump left office.
Last Friday, Trump said he will make a comeback in some form, but did not specify how.
“We’ll do something, but not just yet,” Trump told journalist Rob Crilly of the Washington Examiner.