Trump claims ‘conservatives and people of faith’ will be ‘hunted’ under second Biden term

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Donald Trump opened his CPAC speech with dire warnings of what he thinks will happen if President Joe Biden is re-elected later this year.

“If crooked Joe Biden and his thugs win in 2024, the worst is yet to come,” Mr Trump said at the Gaylord National conference centre in National Harbor, Maryland just outside of Washington, DC on Saturday.

“Our country will … sink to levels that were unimaginable … With four more years of Biden, the hordes of illegal aliens stampeding across our borders will exceed 40 to 50 million people. Medicare social security, health care and public education will buckle and collapse … our economy will be starved of energy by crooked Joe’s vindictive, green new scam,” he added as he continued his tirade.

Congressional Republicans recently tanked bipartisan legislation that would add extra border security funding as well as aid for Ukraine.

In 2022, illegal border crossings hit an all-time high at 2.2 million, according to the Office of Homeland Security Statistics.

Mr Biden initially kept in place a Trump pandemic policy – Title 42 – allowing the authorities to quickly expel those crossing the border.

“Millions of manufacturing jobs will be choked off into extinction. And you’ll have constant … blackouts and rampant inflation. Ruthless gangs will explode even more into the suburbs,” Mr Trump claimed. “And when they talk about suburban women, they’re going to love me so much. They’re going to say ‘Oh, I wish we had that guy back.’”

“The gangs will be invading your territory,” he added. “I can tell you that weaponized law enforcement hunts for conservatives and people of faith.”

“China will dominate us, not just economically, but militarily, and that’s what they want,” he claimed.

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