Donald Trump branded President Joe Biden an "enemy of the state" at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday as he moves to general election mode.
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The former president hit back at Biden's remarks that Trump supporters endanger democracy and slammed last month's FBI raid of his Florida home.
Making his first public appearance since the August 8 raid, Trump told attendees that the search was a "travesty of justice" and warned it would produce "a backlash the likes of which nobody has ever seen."
"There can be no more vivid example of the very real threats from American freedom than just a few weeks ago, you saw, when we witnessed one of the most shocking abuses of power by any administration in American history," he claimed.
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Trump told cheering supporters at the "Save America" gathering in the city of Wilkes-Barre that the "egregious abuse of the law."
Trump also hit back at Biden's speech this week in which said Trumpism represents "an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic."
Speaking in Philadelphia on Thursday, Biden launched an extraordinary assault on those Republicans who embrace Trump's "Make America Great Again" ideology – and urged his supporters to fight back in what he billed as a "battle for the Soul of the Nation."
Trump slammed it as the "most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president ...
"Republicans in the MAGA movement are not the ones trying to undermine our democracy," he said, having repeatedly claimed before that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost, was rigged; and whose party has made unfounded claims of voter fraud a central plank of their platform.
"We are the ones trying to save our democracy, very simple. The danger to democracy comes from the radical left, not from the right," Trump added.
He was appearing at the rally ahead of November's midterm elections, which could see Biden's Democrats lose control of both houses of Congress.
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