‘There’ll be slaughter’
Trump repeats chilling warning of ‘bloodbath’ if he loses
GREEN BAY: Donald Trump has doubled down on his heavily criticised warning of a coming American “bloodbath” as he told supporters US communities face “plunder, rape and slaughter” at the hands of illegal immigrants if he doesn’t win the presidential election.
In some of his most inflammatory comments to date on border security, Mr Trump accused President Joe Biden of unleashing “carnage, chaos and killing” in the US – which he claimed was flooded with drugs and besieged by foreign criminal gangs.
“I stand before you today to declare that Joe Biden’s border bloodbath … it’s a bloodbath, and it’s destroying our country and it’s a very bad thing happening,” he said in an apocalyptic campaign speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
“It’s going to end on the day that I take office.”
The former president – who faces a rematch against Mr Biden in November’s election – spoke out as the Republican National Committee launched BidenBloodbath.com, a website warning of an “invasion aided and abetted by Joe Biden”. While speaking about the potential loss of auto manufacturing jobs to foreign countries last month, Mr Trump said if he wasn’t reelected, “it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country”. The Biden campaign and Democrats accused him of fomenting “political violence”, prompting an indignant response from Trump aides who said it was clear the tycoon was using the term to describe economic devastation.
Mr Trump referred to illegal immigrants accused of criminality as “animals” in his fireand-brimstone Michigan speech, highlighting the killing of several young women, allegedly by foreign nationals.
“Under crooked Joe Biden every state is now a border state. Every town is now a border town,” he thundered.
“Because Joe Biden has brought the carnage, chaos and killing from all over the world and dumped it straight into our backyards.”
He vowed to stop the “plunder, rape, slaughter and destruction of our American suburbs, cities and towns”.
While illegal border crossings hit record highs during Mr Biden’s presidency, violent crime – in Michigan and nationwide – has been dropping since it spiked under Mr Trump’s presidency during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.
The Republican resumed his campaign with rallies in Michigan and Wisconsin, two swing states crucial to his election hopes, after only one rally in the past three weeks.