When Donald Trump finally packed up his bags and left the White House we all knew it wouldn’t be the last we heard of him. Now it seems he has gone where most people go after they retire but he is not there to relax.
Former President Donald Trump has set up an office in Palm Beach County, Florida, to oversee his affairs and has dubbed it the “Office of the Former President.”
According to a statement, the official post-presidency office will be responsible for Trump’s “correspondence, public statements, appearances, and official activities” as well as “advance the interests of the United States and… carry on the agenda of the Trump administration through advocacy, organizing, and public activism.”
The announcement came after Democrats pushed the impeachment case against Trump to the Senate to begin his trial. Meanwhile, Republican senators have eased off on criticizing the former president over his role in the attack of the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead.
The House prosecutors delivered the impeachment charge of “incitement of insurrection,” but since Republican denunciations of Trump has lessened since the riot they will instead be presenting a tangled web of legal arguments against the legitimacy of the trial and argue whether Trump’s demands to overturn the election results really led to incitement.
The Senate trial will hear arguments beginning the week of February 8 and the case against the first former president to face an impeachment will test the strength of a political party still picking up the pieces of a post-Trump era while Republican senators struggle to balance the demands of deeply invested donors who are working to distance themselves from Trump and his viciously loyal supporters.
Rumors flying around about Trump’s post-presidency range from him starting his own media company to running for a second term in 2024.
Trump’s 2020 campaign senior adviser Jason Miller squashed the possibility of Trump ever running on a third-party ticket, stating that the former president’s immediate focus is helping Republicans to win back the House and Senate in the 2022 midterms.
