Donald Trump predicted on Saturday that if he loses the presidential election in November it will more than likely mean the end of American democracy. The former president and Republican candidate insisted, in an event with his co-religionists, in the song (proven to be unfounded) that the election he clearly lost against the Democrat Joe Biden was a fraud and was manipulated.
In a windy outdoor speech in which Trump used his hurricane rhetoric to the point where he was very explicit in his words, the candidate predicted that if he does not win the next elections on November 5, American democracy will come to an end.
“If we don’t win this election, I don’t think you’ll have another election in this country,” Trump said bluntly. The 2016-2020 president, who is still indicted by a Georgia court on criminal charges for trying to change the outcome of that state’s election, key to his defeat, has won enough delegates to be nominated Republican candidate to the detriment of former governor Nikki Haley.
But the depth charge of Trump’s vehement speech went much further, to the point where, halfway through his parliament, he assured, at the mouth of a cannon: “If I don’t win, there will be a bloodbath all over the country “. The terrifying phrase was inserted at a time when the candidate was talking about the economy, tariffs, tariffs on cars imported into the country and the survival of the US auto industry. Of course, the phrase created an uproar because it directly connected to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Asked by a reporter from The New York Times what he had meant by “bloodbath”, members of the Trump campaign clarified on the social network X that the expression was part of the discussion about the future of the industry automotive industry and the country’s economy. Asked about the bloody expression, in the Democratic campaign that drives the candidacy of Joe Biden, spokesman James Singer condemned Trump’s “extremism”, “his thirst for revenge” and his continued “threats of political violence” .
Trump’s tone of verbal violence is in crescendo as he sees the November election as extremely close as the polls predict. A poll just released by Reuters/Ipsos indicates that the two candidates are absolutely tied.
In his speech in Dayton, Trump paid tribute to his supporters who are currently imprisoned for the events of the assault on the Capitol on January 6, with which they wanted to prevent the approval of the Parliament of Biden’s victory. Trump greeted them as “patriots” and “hostages”.
The former Republican president is increasingly using dystopian and threatening language in his latest speeches. In this context, and in an economic framework, Trump used his expression of “bloodbath”.
The Republican candidate has been appealing to black and Hispanic voters for several days, who will be key in the predictable tight election result. In recent weeks, polls indicate that the margin between Biden, who is ahead, and Trump, who is slightly behind, is being narrowed by the indecision of blacks and Hispanics who gave their majority support to the Democrat almost four years ago.
Trump returned to his usual mantra that too many “illegal” immigrants are crossing the border into the United States from Mexico, especially since Biden took office. The message, paradoxically, is aimed at those minorities in communities whose immigration (legal or not) is part of their history and their DNA.
“No one has come out as damaged and badly hurt by Joe Biden as our great African-American and Hispanic communities”, assured Donald Trump, who added that illegal immigrants are taking their jobs, although, as is usual in the tycoon, he did not provide any evidence or statistics to support his claims.
