Trump's CPAC speech cements how far the conference — and the GOP — have fallen This Sunday, Trump will rally conservatives to himself, lacing every sentence with political arsenic. What’s past is prologue and Trump’s prologue with CPAC is a veritable roadmap to his 2021 appearance.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; AP; Getty; Reuters Feb. 28, 2021, 9:30 AM UTC By the time he’d left office, former President Donald Trump had successfully sold his “big lie” that the 2020 election was illegitimate to 65 percent of all Republicans. As Republicans head into their annual and influential CPAC conference this weekend, the country will hear an array of speakers and panels sell the