Former President Donald Trump greets the crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images / Getty Images)
By Lori Jaffe
President-Elect Donald Trump is on his way to becoming the 47th U.S. President. At the 2024 Republican National Convention, his granddaughter Kai said “A lot of people have put my grandpa through hell. And he’s still standing.” “The media makes my grandpa seem like a different person, but I know him for who he is. He’s very caring and loving. He truly wants the best for this country. And he will fight every single day to make America great again.” So, what will he face?
Kai Trump at the 2024 Republican National Convention
The “Deep State”
In 2016, Trump tried to “drain the swamp.” John Dilulio Jr. wrote, “… the real deep state is the contractor state. It consists of four intersecting networks: financially well-heeled and politically well-protected mega-corporations led by big defense contractors; state and local government leaders in both parties that bark and bloviate about federal bureaucracy and overspending but fight for their constituents’ shares of federal dollars; taxpayer-subsidized nonprofit organizations with multi-million-dollar annual budgets; and, last and most lethal to reform efforts, career congresspersons in both parties.”
Even before the 2024 election, Fox News anchor David Asman said that Trump’s reciprocal trade plan had "a lot of the people in the Chamber of Commerce and the other big corporate interests concerned about what that would mean to trade in general around the world.” “He has already begun the process of kind of threatening those people who would threaten us economically by coming out with a shot across the bow before he becomes president.”
Illegal immigration
Trump credits an immigration chart with saving his life. It shows that after Trump’s border policy was reversed by the Biden Administration, illegal immigration sky rocketed. 
Fox News asked (3:22) National Border Patrol Union President Paul Perez if he was concerned about an app that is being set up in Mexico that would alert illegal migrants that they were at risk of being apprehended by US officials. Peres responded, “…they can create apps. They can do smoke signals. They can get whatever kind of warnings they want. It’s not going to deter us. It’s not going to stop us from being effective at securing the border because that’s what President Trump wants to do to protect this nation.” “Everybody falls in line with President Trump because he means business and protecting this country is what he’s going to do.”
Litigation
Trump has been battling lawsuits for many years. Last week New York Judge Juan Merchan announced his plan to sentence Trump just 10 days before the inauguration.
According to AP, “Trump wants the conviction thrown out and the case dismissed, and communications director Steven Cheung said the president-elect will 'keep fighting.' But it’s tough to predict just what will unfold in this unprecedented, unpredictable case.”
We don’t know what will happen in the future. One thing’s for sure. Donald Trump won't back down.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci / AP Images)
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Lori Jaffe is the Party Secretary for the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee, volunteer coordinator and Member of the Executive Board. She can be reached at [email protected]