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Former President Donald Trump took more political shots at his successor on Saturday during a rally in South Carolina, declaring President Joe Biden to be a “disaster” who is presiding over a “train wreck” of an administration.
“Eight months from now, the people of South Carolina are going to vote to fire the radical Democrats,” Trump told a Florence, S.C., crowd that braved cold and wet weather, that at times also broke into chants of “We love Trump.”
“You’re going to elect an incredible slate of true America First Republicans. You’re going to reelect your Gov. Henry McMaster, and together we’re going to end Nancy Pelosi’s political career once and for all,” he proclaimed.
“The past year we’ve watched in horror as everything Joe Biden touches turns into a calamity and a total disaster. It’s one train wreck after another,” he added.
The former president also chafed at what he sees as American weakness under Biden that included the disastrous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan and emboldening Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, adding: “The stench of the Biden administration stretches all over the globe.”
“He disgraced our nation with a humiliating surrender in Afghanistan; there has never been a lower point in the history of our country,” Trump continued, noting that he sees Biden following former President Barack Obama’s alleged strategy of ‘leading from behind,’ which he said is extremely damaging not only for Ukraine but for the world as well.
“We had peace through strength,” Trump said. “That’s what it was. Our country was safe and the world was calm because America was strong, and they respected our leadership. And America was always a place that I put before everybody else. It was always America first. Very simple.”
He then pivoted to the “fake news” which he said routinely tarnished his administration and helped usher in Biden, which has led to “bloodshed” around the world.
“The fake news said my personality would get us into a war: ‘I’m telling you, that guy is going to get us into a war,'” Trump added. “But, actually, my personality is what kept us out of war. I was the only president in nearly four decades who did not get America into any new conflicts instead.
“I brought our troops and our wonderful children back home. I brought them back home where they belong. Under Joe Biden, America’s neither feared nor respected. There has never been a time where our country has been treated the way it is right now,” the 45th president continued.
“Other countries are lecturing us and telling us what to do, and that’s why we are seeing chaos and mayhem and bloodshed all over the world. Never been a time like it,” he said, adding that there is no one in the current administration prepared to talk tough to Putin right now.
“Well, we need to help stop this brutal invasion,” Trump said. “We also have to clean out the rot of our failed foreign policy establishment. It is indeed rotten to the core. Before these total lunatics lead us down the path to World War III. They will do it too. We have to continue to drain the swamp. We did a lot of it, but the swamp was deep, deeper than anybody believed.
“Despite all of Biden’s weakness, cowardice and incompetence, there is still a path for him to end this tragedy in Ukraine without getting Americans snared in a gruesome and very bloody war,” said Trump.
He also railed against Green New Deal-pushing Democrats for talking about global warming when the world is on the verge of nuclear war.
“They say over the next 300 years, the oceans will rise, about this much,” Trump said, gesturing with his finger to show about one inch.
“But you know, the real threat we have is the nuclear threat. That’s going to be the global warming and we can’t let that ever happen. The nuclear threat: That’s the real global warming that nobody ever talks about – the lunatics on the left, the globalist radicals, global environmental radicals,” he said.
Trump went on to tease another run in 2024, as he often does.
“This is the year we are going to take back the House; we are going to take back the Senate, and we are going to take back America – and in 2024, we are going to take back that beautiful, beautiful White House,” Trump concluded. “I wonder who will do that? I wonder.”
