Former US President Donald Trump on Saturday responded to Joe Biden, who portrayed him as a threat to democracy, calling him in turn an “enemy of the state” and suing him for incompetence, during a a campaign meeting in Pennsylvania for the midterm elections.
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In front of his supporters, the Republican billionaire also denounced the spectacular FBI search of his Florida residence on August 8 in Mar-a-Lago, describing this act of investigation as “one of the most shocking abuses of power in an administration’s share in American history.
In Wilkes-Barre, a small town near Scranton, hometown of Joe Biden, Donald Trump had come to support Republican candidates in the next midterm elections on November 8, including Mehmet Oz, a doctor who became a star of the small screen.
But in this state of Pennsylvania which will be key in the battle for control of the two chambers, his rival had preceded him this week and attacked with rare virulence, accusing him of representing, with “the + Republicans MAGA +” (Make america great once more), “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic”. In Philadelphia, the cradle of the United States, Joe Biden had even called for saving “the soul of America”, castigating those who “do not respect the Constitution”, “do not believe in the rule of law”, ” do not recognize the will of the people”.
“It’s him (Joe Biden), the enemy of the state”, wanted to answer Donald Trump, denouncing “the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president”. “His speech was only hatred and anger,” he insisted, in unison with his supporters.
Thus, in the midst of red or blue signs calling for “save America”, Edward Young, 63, believes that “the President of the United States, finally the so-called President of the United States, has declared war on me. And he declared war on half of America”.
Denouncing inflation and a rise in insecurity, Donald Trump, who openly plans to run once more in 2024, also wanted to draw up the most negative assessment possible of Joe Biden, in a speech that sometimes took on presidential campaign accents.
“You might take the five worst presidents in the history of the United States, and put them together, they mightn’t have done the harm Joe Biden did to our country in less than two years,” the Republican said. 76 years old. The meeting had started with a selection of images of Joe Biden sputtering during speeches.
In his first public appearance since the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, Donald Trump also claimed that this investigative act was “the most striking example of the very real threats to the freedom of Americans”.
“The shameful raid and raid on my Mar-a-Lago home was a travesty of justice,” he insisted.
The FBI had carried out this search because it suspects the ex-president of illegally keeping confidential documents from his mandate at the White House (2017-2021).
Federal investigators believe that among the 30 boxes seized are top-secret documents “probably hidden” to hinder the investigation, says a document from the Department of Justice.
But for Donald Trump, this “flagrant abuse of the law” will produce “a backlash like no one has ever seen”.
The billionaire is also the target of investigations into his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and his role in the violent assault by his supporters on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
He is currently not being prosecuted in any case.
The former president also once more questioned the result of the 2020 presidential election, which saw him lose to Joe Biden. “American elections should be decided by the American people. And it didn’t happen like that in 2020,” he said.