Washington | President Donald Trump has made a triumphant return to the Conservative Political Action Conference, gleefully recounting his acts of retribution against the Biden administration to a crowd of loyal supporters that included people he had pardoned for their roles in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Two years after he used an address at CPAC, an influential conservative gathering, to declare to his supporters that “I am your retribution,” Trump took a victory lap amid his wide-reaching efforts to reshape the federal government in his image, including firing thousands of federal workers and dismantling the government’s main international development agency.