06-06-2021, 09:47 AM
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Banished from social networks but no less influential among the Republican faithful, Donald Trump was set to return to the stage Saturday (June 5) for his first speech in months as he flirts ever more openly with a new presidential run in 2024.
"I understand the place will be packed, all records broken!" the former president, his flair for showmanship undiminished, said in announcing the planned speech in Greenville, North Carolina to a convention of that southeastern state's Republican Party.
Organisers said all 1,250 tickets to the evening event had sold out.
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