“The threat to democracy does not come from the right, but from the radical left,” Trump told the cheering crowd. Among other things, he expressed his dismay at the FBI raid on his Florida resort early last month. During the rally, which attracted several thousand supporters, he warned of “a reaction like no one has ever seen” because of the “ridiculous” search of his home.
The FBI suspects Trump of taking classified documents from the White House. In total, some 11,000 government documents were seized during the raid.
Trump’s lash out was in response to Biden’s attack earlier this week. In a TV speech, he called Trump and his radical supporters “a threat to this country”. During that speech, which was broadcast by several American TV channels, Biden said that we “have reassured ourselves for a long time with the idea that American democracy is infallible”. ,,But that is not the case. To keep it alive, it must be defended and protected,” the president said. “By all of us.”
Trump called Biden’s speech at Saturday’s rally the “crueldest, most hateful and most divisive speech ever given by a US president.” “It was nothing but hatred and anger. He himself is the enemy of the state, along with the group he controls.”