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President Trump will be there on Saturday, February 24 as will Argentina's President Javier Milei.

El Salvador's president gets rock-star welcome at conservative gathering outside Washington

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has received a rock-star welcome at a conservative gathering outside Washington as he urged people to “unapologetically fight” against what he called “dark forces.”

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El Salvador’s president gets rock-star welcome at conservative gathering outside Washington​

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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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BY ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Updated 11:11 PM EST, February 22, 2024
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland (AP) — El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele received a rock-star welcome Thursday at a conservative gathering outside Washington as he urged people to “unapologetically fight” against what he called “dark forces.”

At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, Bukele told people to use El Salvador as a warning. He said gangs took control of his country and society decades ago and said a fight was needed to arrest criminals and remove corrupt judges.

“The next president of the United States must not only win an election, he must have the vision, the will and the courage to do whatever it takes, and above all, he must be able to identify the underlying forces that will conspire against him,” Bukele said in fluent English at the gathering in National Harbor, Maryland, south of Washington. “These dark forces are already taking over your country.”


The four-day conference will also host the new president of Argentina, right-wing populist Javier Milei. He is scheduled to speak Saturday, the same day former President Donald Trump will give the headlining address.

Nearly two years ago, Bukele declared a war on gangs. He has so far detained more than 76,000 Salvadorans as he attempts to break the chain of violence that has ravaged the country for decades. His policies have broad support and earlier this month, he won reelection to a second five-year term. Many of the arrests are conducted with little evidence or access to due process, and human rights groups have documented widespread abuses not experienced since the country’s 1980-92 civil war.


At one point in his remarks, Bukele said it took 50 years, two wars, 250,000 deaths, a third of the population displaced “and a near miracle to get our country back.” Someone in the crowd shouted, “And you!”

As he exited the ballroom, people cheered, shouted his name, blew horns in support and paraded a calendar with his photograph as conservatives chased him down the halls to snap pictures and get a few words with the leader.

“To have a smart man as president really makes a difference,” said Nallely Gutiérrez Gijón, who managed to get a picture with the Salvadoran leader. “He is determined as an authoritarian to end corruption but governs with an iron fist.”

 

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President Bukele of El Salvador.

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Jan. 6 pinball game featured at CPAC exhibit

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) exhibition hall for the 2024 event includes a variety of merchandise, trinkets and even a twist on the traditional pinball game. The virtual pinb…

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Jan. 6 pinball game featured at CPAC exhibit​

BY MIRANDA NAZZARO - 02/22/24 1:41 PM ET
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The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) exhibition hall for the 2024 event includes a variety of merchandise, trinkets and even a twist on the traditional pinball game.

The virtual pinball game, created by entrepreneur Jonathan Linowes, features photos from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, former President Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally earlier in the day, along with graphics of the U.S. Capitol and media networks MSNBC, Fox News and CNN.

The game can be played over several modes, including “Stop the Steal,” “Fake News,” “Peaceful Protest,” “It’s a Setup,” “Babbitt Murder” — a reference to the Jan. 6 rioter who was shot and killed by police after trying to climb barriers at the Capitol — “Have Faith” and “Political Prisoners.” As you play each mode, videos from the insurrection play on a screen above.

A pinball machine themed around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is featured at CPAC 2024 at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. (Miranda Nazzaro)

Linowes told The Hill he hopes the game can “reach an audience” of those who are not ordinarily political.

“I’m in the tech world, and it’s very sort of left leaning; I would go to tech events and hear people say things, and I would basically have to self censor myself,” Linowes said Thursday. “But after the 2020 election, I decided that … I didn’t want to really keep quiet anymore, and … I make games, so I decided to make this ‘J6’ that explains a lot of the truth of what happened in J6.”

He claimed he also posted the free software for the game on websites for enthusiasts, but was later banned because platforms said they did not “want any terrorists” on their website.

Other items nodding to conservative messaging were offered in the exhibit hall as well, including “Woke Tears Water” bottles, bedazzled guns and candy with the label, “Make America Great Again.”

CPAC kicked off its second day Thursday, featuring a series of Republican speakers including Rep. Byron Donalds (Fla.), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) and Lara Trump — the daughter-in-law of Trump and his pick for co-chair of the Republican National Conference (RNC).

The event will run through Saturday, with other high-profile Republicans expected to deliver remarks, including the former president, Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio), Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), as well as Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) and Republican Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake.

More than 1,100 people have been charged in nearly every state since the Jan. 6 riots on the Capitol, according to the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office.

The Hill’s Cate Martel contributed.

 

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El Salvador's Bukele Slams Soros At CPAC | ZeroHedge

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El Salvador's Bukele Slams Soros At CPAC​

BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, FEB 23, 2024 - 07:45 AM
El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele blasted George Soros, globalism, and the American financial system.
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In a fiery address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Bukele - who won re-election by a staggering 84% of the vote, said of Globalism: "It's already dead," adding that in America "dark forces are taking over your country."

He said that the reason El Salvador ended up becoming the “murder capital of the world” was that the people were not equipped to understand just how radically their society was changing because it happened over a period of decades, one increment at a time.
Bukele likened this to boiling a frog, saying that if you keep turning up the heat and slowly boil the frog, it won’t realize what is happening until it is too late. The Latin American president urged Americans not to despair, however, as “you can still jump before the water boils.” -Lifesite

Bukele later explained that in El Salvador, a 12-year-long communist-inspired civil war broke out, and that he can "clear see the signs of a declining" country when he looks at America.

"They were setting the gang members free," he said of his home country, adding that in order to clean up El Salvador he had to remove "corrupt judges, corrupt attorneys and corrupt prosecutors."

He singled out Baltimore, where "crime and drugs have become the daily norm," and asked the crowd if they could have imagined the fentanyl epidemic 10 year ago.

Shots at Soros



Bukele then too aim at globalist billionaire George Soros, who has funded a nationwide campaign to install soft-on-crime District Attorneys in major US cities.


"Who elected [George] Soros to dictate public policy and laws? Why does he feel entitled to impose his agenda?" he said. "Soros and his cronies hit a brick wall in El Salvador."

"Thank God and all glory be to Him, El Salvadorians are now immune to his influence," he continued.


Bukele then exclaimed that his anti-globalist policies have worked to turn El Salvador into the safest country in the Western hemisphere.

Bukele outlined that globalists like Soros don’t just back district attorneys but manipulate public opinion through institutional control of media and political campaigns, and that Americans must “fight” against it with all their “heart and soul.” -Lifesite

"The people of El Salvador have woken up, and so can you," he said. "The global elites, they hate our success, and they fear yours. The people’s free will to choose their leaders is something they despise because they cannot control it."

Bukele then warned that the American financial system is more fragile than people think.


"And who buys the Treasury bounds?" Bukele asked. "Mostly the Fed."

"And how does the Fed buy them?" he asked. By "printing" them.

"So basically, you finance the government by printing money out of thin air," he continued, asserting that Americans are paying high taxes to "uphold the illusion that you are funding the government."

"The government is funding [itself] by money printing … paper backed with paper, a bubble that will inevitably burst."

If that happens, "confidence in your currency would be lost, the dollar would fall and Western civilization with it."

According to Bukele, it's not too late for America to right the ship.

(Tweets of the speech at the link)

 

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CPAC Straw Poll, Slighting Haley, Will Ask About Trump’s Ideal Running Mate​

The poll question at the prominent gathering of conservatives points to his front-runner status — and just how much he controls the political right.

Former President Donald J. Trump has won the first Republican presidential nominating contests, but he still faces opposition from Nikki Haley. Credit...Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times


By Michael C. Bender
Reporting from Washington

• Feb. 17, 2024

Well on his way to the Republican nomination and eager to cast himself as inevitable, Donald J. Trump has repeatedly invited speculation about his running mate.

Now organizers for one of the most prominent gatherings of the conservative movement plan to follow suit.

The 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, which starts on Wednesday, will conclude on Saturday with a straw poll that will include a vice-presidential question for the first time in at least a decade, organizers say.

The question, which asks CPAC attendees to pick the best running mate for Mr. Trump, nods to where attention is soon likely to turn in the Republican primary race. But its inclusion and Trump-specific wording are also the latest sign of just how completely the former president now dominates the party and its conglomerate of allied groups.


The slate of options, with 17 potential contenders, reads like a V.I.P. list for the latest black-tie gala at Mar-a-Lago.
It includes some of the names most often floated, like Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, Representative Elise Stefanik of New York and Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, according to a version of the poll shared with The New York Times.

Slightly longer shots also make an appearance: Ben Carson, the 2016 presidential contender who served in Mr. Trump’s cabinet; Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News anchor; and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.

The list features some unconventional choices, too, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running for president as an independent, and former Representative Tulsi Gabbard, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 before leaving the party and becoming an independent.


While Mr. Trump is the overwhelming favorite for the Republican nomination, he is, in fact, still facing a primary challenge from former Gov. Nikki Haley. The vice-presidential poll question doesn’t just ignore that detail, which might be bothersome for Trump allies; the list of his potential running mates includes Ms. Haley as an option. It also includes two vanquished challengers, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Vivek Ramaswamy.

The CPAC straw poll will also include the gathering’s traditional question about whom attendees would like to nominate for president, which Mr. Trump has won six consecutive times. With polls showing that Mr. Trump maintains a strong grip on the party’s conservative base, the question about his running mate is sure to draw far more attention.

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The former president has discussed possible running mates with close advisers, who have examined which contenders he has the best chemistry with and provided political analysis about their positions on abortion.

Publicly, Mr. Trump has offered conflicting thoughts on his possible No. 2. Just before the Iowa caucuses last month, he said he already knew whom he would choose. He walked that back this month, saying he had not decided and that he would not announce his decision “for a while.” He has said his running mate should be someone “who is going to be a good president.”


Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts CPAC, said he had compiled the list along with his wife, Mercedes, a longtime Republican strategist, and others on the CPAC team.

Mr. Schlapp said that all of the hypothetical contenders had been invited to speak at the conference and that about half had accepted, including Kari Lake, a candidate for Senate in Arizona; Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota; Mr. Ramaswamy; and Ms. Stefanik.

“This is like our version of ‘The Apprentice,’” Mr. Schlapp said, referring to the reality television show that featured Mr. Trump for 14 seasons. “They’ll all get a chance to make remarks and give conservative activists a sense of what they’re about. And I’m sure Mr. Trump will be very interested to see the results of the straw poll.”

Mr. Trump has reveled in his long history of warm welcomes at CPAC and is likely to receive another next week. He is scheduled to address the conference on Saturday, the same day as the Republican presidential primary election in South Carolina.


CPAC, which held its first gathering in 1974 featuring Ronald Reagan, has evolved over the years and now attracts hundreds of pro-Trump activists and conservative media figures.

To appeal to that audience, the event next week includes a handful of speakers with close ties to the former president, including Kevin Hassett, a former Trump economic adviser; Stephen K. Bannon, the former Trump White House strategist and podcast host; and Lara Trump, Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law, whom he has backed for a Republican National Committee leadership post.

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan contributed reporting.
Michael C. Bender is a Times political correspondent covering Donald J. Trump, the Make America Great Again movement and other federal and state elections. More about Michael C. Bender
A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 18, 2024, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: CPAC to Conduct Straw Poll for Trump Running Mate, Slighting Haley. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

 

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CPAC panelists sound alarm amid transgender parental rights battles

The president of the American Principles Project, Terry Schilling, warned that the “transgender industry” is waging a “war on families.”

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CPAC panelists sound alarm amid transgender-related parental rights battles​

Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project discusses gender policy for minors with Dr. Eithan Haim and CPAC panel moderator

By Tyler Arnold
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 22, 2024 / 22:08 pm

The president of the American Principles Project, Terry Schilling, warned that the “transgender industry” is waging a “war on families” amid efforts by states to tear children away from parents who refuse to facilitate their children’s gender transitions.

“They are declaring war on families,” said Schilling, a Catholic, during a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on Thursday.

The panel — titled “Genesis 1:27” in reference to the biblical affirmation that “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” — delved into concerns about state governments imposing gender ideology on families and allowing surgical sex-change operations to be performed on children in more than half of the country.

The panelists specifically referenced the situation in Indiana, where the state government took a 15-year-old out of his parents’ custody after the teenager began to identify as transgender. The Catholic parents, Mary and Jeremy Cox, refused to refer to their son as a girl based on their belief that sex is immutable, and he developed an eating disorder.

Although the Indiana Court of Appeals could not substantiate any abuse or neglect from the parents, the judges still removed the child from the home and placed him with a family that would refer to him as a girl as a means to address the eating disorder. The appellate ruling occurred in October 2022, but the parents asked the United States Supreme Court to review the case last week.

The panelists also discussed the growing trend in states such as California, Washington, and Minnesota to pass laws that allow out-of-state runaway children to receive transgender surgeries without the knowledge or consent of their parents.

Schilling said these laws and state actions “incriminate parents for doing their jobs” by punishing them “for protecting their children from this [transgender] industry that will quite literally chew them up and spit them out with destroyed bodies.”

The Catholic father of six criticized what he called the “transgender for-profit industry,” which he said is enriching itself by providing transgender drugs to children and facilitating sex-change operations.

Schilling was joined on the panel by Dr. Eithan Haim, who was investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice for leaking details about a secretive program to facilitate sex changes for children at the Texas Children’s Hospital.

Haim encouraged doctors to speak up about the harm caused by facilitating gender transitions for children, arguing that “we take an oath when we go into medical school and we follow this path that we should do no harm, [and] that doesn’t just apply to the clinic [or] to the operating room … but it applies outside of that.”

“These doctors [who facilitate sex changes for children] have believed they can become God and create something new when the actual goal of medicine is to preserve and strengthen what’s already been created,” Haim added.

The panel was hosted by Meg Brock of the Daily Caller News Foundation. This year’s CPAC proceedings continue through Saturday, Feb. 24.

 

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JD Vance addressed a number of issues, primarily Russia/Ukraine, the border crisis, Biden screwing up everything, Trump.

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MAGA Republican Pledges “End of Democracy” to Rabid Cheers at CPAC

Republicans at CPAC 2024 are openly vowing to take down democracy.

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Javier Milei. I have just started to listen to it. It is quite lengthy because he has to use a translator.

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Oxon Hill, would never ever go there. If Trump or any public figure is to be assassinated that is the place you do do not want to be…

 

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Trump's CPAC speech...

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Trump exchanges a close hug with Argentine President Javier Milei at conservative summit

The fiery, right-wing populist president of Argentina has spoken at the Conservative Political Action Conference after giving Donald Trump an ecstatic hug.

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Trump exchanges a close hug with Argentine President Javier Milei at conservative summit​

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Updated 7:24 PM EST, February 24, 2024
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OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Javier Milei, the fiery, right-wing populist president of Argentina, gave Donald Trump on Saturday an ecstatic hug a day after meeting with Biden administration officials in Buenos Aires.

Trump and Milei were the biggest speakers to wrap up the annual Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington. During their backstage greeting, captured in a video posted by a Trump campaign staffer, Milei shouted “President!” and pulled Trump in for a close hug before they took pictures together.

Milei took office in December after running a campaign inspired by Trump, complete with red “Make Argentina Great Again” hats in a nod to the former president’s own “Make America Great Again” movement. He was the last of several foreign politicians at CPAC to echo popular Trump themes on issues like migration and the perceived threat of socialism.

In the video, Trump tells Milei, “Make Argentina Great Again.” Milei then uttered his famous phrase, “Long live freedom, damn it!”

The Argentine’s appearance at CPAC came a day after he met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. A top Milei official alleged that Marc Stanley, the U.S. ambassador in Buenos Aires, had suggested that Milei not speak at CPAC.



Milei’s security minister, Patricia Bullrich, who was also attending the gathering south of Washington, said Stanley told Milei’s office that he thought the conference was “very political” and that it was not appropriate for him to participate.

“It was honorable to come,” Bullrich said. “He comes here as a speaker, to give a general speech, not to talk about the election.”

The State Department did not respond to a request for comment Saturday evening.

Milei urged the CPAC crowd to put a stop to socialism and not to endorse more regulation of the economy. He also called abortion access a “murderous agenda” to decrease the size of the population.

“Do not be led by mermaids singing social justice,” he said in Spanish. “Do not give up your freedom. Fight for your freedom because if you do not fight, you will be led into misery.”