Donald Trump seemed to suggest another electoral loss would lead to widespread violence in the United States. But his campaign says the remark referred to Chinese threats to the US auto industry.
Former US president Donald Trump’s declaration that if his second attempt at securing a second term in the White House fails then it will result in a “bloodbath” was taken entirely out of context by the President Joe Biden’s team and the media, according to his campaign.
Trump was speaking from an airfield in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday during a rally in support of Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, when the former president seemed to suggest another electoral loss would lead to widespread violence in the United States.
“If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country,” Trump said.
Biden’s campaign was quick to call out the 45th president’s rhetoric, declaring Trump’s statements a further piece of evidence that his public cosying up to authoritarians like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is not just politics as usual, but a sign of his own authoritarian leanings.
