“We’re the ones trying to save our democracy, very simply,” Donald Trump said. (File)
Wilkis Barre, USA:
Former President Donald Trump branded his successor Joe Biden an “enemy of the state” during a protest in Pennsylvania on Saturday, as he attacked last month’s FBI raid of his home in Florida.
In his first public appearance since the August 8 raid, Trump said the search was a “betrayal of justice” and warned it would generate “a backlash that no one has ever seen before”. see.”
“There couldn’t be a more vivid example of the very real threats to American freedom than just a few weeks ago, when we witnessed one of the greatest abuses of economic power,” Trump said. the most powerful of any administration in American history.”
His suggestion that the Biden administration oversaw the raid goes against longstanding protocols that say the Justice Department and FBI act independently of the White House.
Trump told cheering supporters at the Wilkes-Barre rally that the “serious abuse of the law” would create “a backlash like no one has ever seen.”
Trump also hit back at Biden’s speech this week in which the president said his predecessor and Republican supporters “represent an extremism that threatens our own republic.” me.”
Biden gave “the most cruel, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president,” Trump told supporters.
“He’s an enemy of the state. You want to know that,” Trump said.
“The Republicans in the MAGA movement are not the ones trying to destroy our democracy,” he continued, referring to his Make America Great Again movement.
“We are people trying to save our democracy, very simply. The danger to democracy comes from the radical left, not from the right,” he added.
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