Trump's Speech in Ohio: About "Fake News", "Left

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Donald Trump, ex-US President

"Left-wing democrats," open borders "fanaticism, call it what you will, contribute to serious crime."

No, these are not excerpts from the 2020 US election campaign, but show Donald Trump last Saturday in Ohio.

Almost six months after his last major rally in Washington, which inspired the attack on the Capitol, the ex-US president gave a public speech to thousands of supporters for the first time.

Donald Trump, ex-US President

"Joe Biden is destroying our nation right before our very eyes."

In typical Trump fashion, he raged, among other things, against the immigration policy of the Democrats.

Donald Trump, ex-US President

“I don't know if they're doing it, out of naivete, or because they think it's really good that all these people are coming to our country.

But they put your families in a very bad position. "

On a fairground a good 50 kilometers from Cleveland, Trump also repeatedly defends his refuted claim that the 2020 election was stolen.

Donald Trump, ex-US President

"They used Covid to cheat, they used Covid to manipulate the election, they used Covid to steal the election."

Of course, accusations against the US media landscape could not be left out either.

Donald Trump, ex-US President

"The fake news media did everything they could to wrestle our election victory and slow the count down until they figured out how to drag Joe Biden over the finish line."

Officially, Trump promoted Congress candidate Max Miller, a former Trump adviser who is supposed to dispute the seat of a Republican critical of Trump in the 2022 midterm elections, at the event.

But in the end it was above all a prelude to Trump's return to the political stage - old slogans included.

"We're making America great again."