Former US President Donald Trump called his successor Joe Biden an “enemy of the state” in front of his supporters gathered at a campaign rally ahead of the midterm elections Saturday night in Pennsylvania.
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“He’s the enemy of the state,” the Republican billionaire told the crowd, responding to virulent attacks from Joe Biden, who had said two days earlier that Donald Trump “and the Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic”.
“His speech was only hatred and anger”, denounced Donald Trump, accusing Mr. Biden of having portrayed his supporters as “threats to democracy” and “enemies of the state”.
“The enemy of the state is him and the group that controls him,” continued the former president in this key state of Pennsylvania for the November 8 midterm elections, where control of both chambers will be at stake.
In his first public appearance since a spectacular August 8 FBI raid of his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, he said the investigative act was “the starkest example of the very real threats facing on the Freedom of Americans” and one of “the most shocking abuses of power by any administration in American history”.
“The shameful search and raid on my house in Mar-a-Lago was a travesty of justice,” insisted the former president, who openly flirts with a new candidacy in 2024.
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 “likely hidden” to hinder an investigation, according to a document from the Department of Justice.