Former US president Donald Trump has brushed apart warnings from the Democrats over his potential return to the White House and claimed that it’s his successor, Joe Biden, who poses a hazard to the nation’s democracy. Trump made these feedback forward of a potential rematch between the two at the polls subsequent 12 months.

Trump, who stays entangled in a sequence of federal and state authorized battles associated to allegations that he tried to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election, has nudged forward of Biden in polling for a possible presidential race in 2024, in accordance to the Wall Street Journal.

Although his marketing campaign is doubtless to be performed in the shadow of mounting authorized points, the presumptive GOP nominee has dismissed Democratic Party warnings {that a} Trump win represents a threat to the US as a “hoax” and “misinformation.”

“Can you believe it? This is their new line, you know,” Trump stated on Saturday at an occasion hosted by the New York Young Republican Club. “Here we go again – ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ ‘Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.’ One hoax after another.”

Trump added: “But no, I’m not a threat. I will save democracy. The threat is Crooked Joe Biden.” The former president has claimed that the myriad authorized circumstances he faces are politically motivated and has vowed to prosecute Biden if he returns to workplace.

The former president’s newest feedback got here quickly after he was criticized by his Democratic rivals for saying that he meant to briefly be a dictator if he is reelected to set up extra border fortifications and introduce home oil manufacturing insurance policies.

“I said I want to be a dictator for one day,” Trump added on Saturday in New York, in reference to his feedback days earlier than. “And you know why I want to be a dictator? Because I want a wall … and I want to drill, drill, drill.”

Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor and candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2024, stated throughout the social gathering’s fourth main debate final week that Trump’s feedback reveal him to be “an angry, bitter man who now wants to be back as president because he wants to exact retribution on anyone who has disagreed with him.”

Meanwhile, Biden just lately forged a dire warning about the potential end result of a second Trump presidency. At a fundraising occasion in Los Angeles on Saturday, Biden stated, “The greatest threat Trump poses is to the democracy.”

The president additionally stated at an earlier marketing campaign occasion final month in San Francisco that a few of Trump’s rhetoric has its roots in authoritarianism, particularly his promise to be his supporters’ “retribution” and describing political opponents as “vermin.”