Donald Trump says he can return president in August
The former US president, who fears an indictment for tax fraud, "expects to be reinstated by August": he has no basis for doing so, but the political climate in the country is always toxic (and a former national security adviser also spoke of a "coup d'etat")
The latest from Donald Trump: "in August I will be president again".
The former leader of the United States, despite being silenced by the main social networks (and despite the closure of his blog after about a month), is once again stirring up American politics.
The reference (later withdrawn) to the coup in Myanmar
According to rumors relaunched via Twitter by, among others, the New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, Trump "is telling a number of people he is in contact with that he expects to be reinstated as president by August."
More than a conspiracy theory, a rant, widespread to mobilize the core of the loyal, still in the field.
Last Saturday, May 29, the Trumpians gathered in Dallas, at the Omni Hotel, for a gathering entitled "For God and Country Patriot Roundup Saturday". Lawyer Sidney Powell, starring Rudy Giuliani in the down-and-out judicial offensive to overturn the result of the last elections, said Trump "could simply return president".
Former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn added that "one could think of a coup d'état similar to that in Myanmar", but then quickly backtracked.
Of course, no one understood how Trump could return to the White House. Here and there, on the net, "laws passed by the Republican Party" are evoked. How? By taking out the Constitution? Leading the militias in an encore on January 6? Sick fantasies.
The polarization of US society
But be careful, because the political climate is always toxic. A poll published on May 27 by the Public Religion Research Institute and Interfaith Youth Core shows that 15% of Americans believe that power is controlled by a sect of pedophiles, Satan worshipers. The research was conducted last March on a sample of 5625 people, aged 18 and over, mixed by ethnicity and religious faith. The institute, which specializes in analyzes that intertwine society and religion, has probed the consensus gathered by the agitators of QAnon, the movement born in 2017 and sided with Trump.
The results are disturbing. In particular, 20% of the sample expects "a storm that will wipe out the elites in power and put the legitimate leaders back in their place". The percentage rises to 28% considering Republicans only and to 14% among Democrats.
