Trump rally live: Ex-president repeats ‘border bloodbath’ rhetoric during Wisconsin campaign event

Donald Trump told supporters in Wisconsin that 2024 was “our final battle”.

“It was hard working patriots like you, Wisconsin, who built this country, and its hard working patriots like you who are going to save our country at a very, very perilous time,” he said.

“We will fight for America like no one has ever fought before. 2024 is our final battle and with you at my side we will demolish the deep state, we will expel the war mongers.

“With your support we will go on to victory the likes of which no one has ever seen before. We will evict crooked Joe Biden the worst president in the history of our country from the White House, and we will take back our country on November 5 2024 – the most important day in the history of our country.”

Donald Trump claimed he had been indicted more times than infamous US gangster Al Capone during his rally in Wisconsin.

“I got indicted more than Alphonse Capone – Scarface you know,” he said.

“Bad, he was you know… if you ever looked at Alphonse Capone, you wouldn’t be tough at all. You’d be dead by the morning most likely, I got indicted more than Alfonse.

“Alphonse was a tough man. they did a movie called Scarface check it out.”

Donald Trump repeated his previously controversial “bloodbath” rhetoric, as he returned to the campaign trail in Wisconsin.

The former president has accused the media of willfully misinterpreting his words, after he used the term previously to describe the result of a defeat for him in November’s election.

Speaking at the rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, he said: “I’m here tonight to declare that Joe Biden’s border bloodbath – remember they used the name bloodbath, I was talking about something entirely different – ​​but this is a border bloodbath ends the day I take the oath of office.

“With your vote, I will seal the border I will stop the invasion I will end the carnage, bloodshed and killing and we will crush the human traffickers.”

Mr Trump used the phrase “bloodbath” at a rally in Ohio last month as he warned of dire economic consequences for an American auto industry under pressure from China without him back in the White House.

“If I don’t get elected it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country,” he declared.

At his rally in Wisconsin, Donald Trump poked fun at President Joe Biden’s golfing ability, while claiming Mr Biden excelled at “cheating at elections and disinformation”.

“You know if pilots come in, he says I used to fly planes. If truckers come in he says I used to truck. I used to drive a nice truck,” he said. “His biggest lie of all he said… did you ever see him swinging a golf club he’s like this.”

Mr Trump, a keen golfer, then performed a doddering impression of Mr Biden golfing.

“He said he was a six handicap… He’s not a 36 handicap,” he said.

Mr Biden previously challenged Mr Trump to a game of golf.

At a rally in Wisconsin Donald Trump attacked President Joe Biden’s decision to recognize Trans Visibility Day, which this year happened to fall on the same day as Easter Sunday.

The former president suggested that 5 November 2024, the date set for the US general election, be called “Christian Visibilty Day”.

“What the hell was Biden thinking when he declared Easter Sunday to be Trans Visibility Day,” he said to boos from his supporters.

“Such total disrespect to Christians, and November 5 is going to be called something else – you know it’s going to be called? Christian Visibility Day: when Christians turn out in numbers that nobody has ever seen before.

“Let’s call it Christian Visibility Day.”

Former Rudy Giuliani associate and Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas asked today on X whether Republican Georgia lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene is “naive, uninformed, corrupt, or just plain stupid” for spreading Russian propaganda.

Donald Trump showed off an empty lectern, erected for Joe Biden, at a rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday night, once again challenging the president to debate him “any time, any place.”

“We have an empty podium right here to my right. You know what that is? That’s for Joe Biden,” he told the jeering crowds.

“I’m trying to get him to debate. I’m calling on crooked Joe to debate anytime anywhere. We’ll do it any way you want, Joe, so that we can discuss in a friendly manner the real problems of our country of which there are many, instead of trying to have corrupt prosecutors fight your battles for you. That’s no good.

“Let’s go have a good solid, friendly debate.”

Mr Trump’s insistence on debating with his old foe comes after consistently refusing to appear onstage next to his Republican challengers during the primary election this cycle.

Ms Hicks served as a White House communications director between 2017 and 2018 and as counselor to the president between 2020 and 2021 but was interviewed by prosecutors in the case last year about an earlier role she played for Mr Trump: press secretary to his campaign during the 2016 election, when the alleged offense is said to have taken place.

The former aide last made headlines on the subject when she told Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee in June 2019 that she had had no knowledge of the hush money payments until the story broke in November 2016.