Former President Donald Trump seethed at prosecutors who are pursuing criminal cases against him, alleging that they are fascists and communist during his massive rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday.
Trump, 77, who is staring down the barrel of 88 criminal counts spanning four indictments, said he is proud to stand up to the charges against him.
“Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communists, and fascists indict me, I consider it a great badge of honor!” Trump bellowed out during his rally — one of the largest of 2024.
“I am being indicted for you. And never forget, our enemies want to take my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom,” he added.
“In the end, they’re not after me, they’re after you.”
The former president has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to all charges pending against him. He is the first former president to face a criminal indictment.
Trump also excoriated his successor, President Biden, 81, with similarly charged rhetoric, alleging that the incumbent is “surrounded by fascists.”
“He’s surrendering our college campuses to anarchists, jihadist freaks, and anti-American extremists who are trying to tear down our American flag,” Trump raged.
“He’s surrounded by fascists around the Oval Office. It’s not him,” Trump went on.
“He’s not doing a very good at cheating on elections. He doesn’t stand up to our enemies abroad. And he does not stand up to the extremists in his own party, the Democrat Party is becoming radicalized. It’s becoming radical left, and they’re going to lose our country.”
Earlier this month, behind closed doors, Trump reportedly compared the Biden administration to the Gestapo, an infamous Nazi secret police force that rounded up Jews and critics of Adolf Hitler.
White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates quickly panned Trump’s remark.
“Instead of echoing the appalling rhetoric of fascists, lunching with Neo Nazis, and fanning debunked conspiracy theories that have cost brave police officer[s] their lives, President Biden is bringing the American people together around our shared democratic values and the rule of law — an approach that has delivered the biggest violent crime reduction in 50 years,” Bates said.
At one point in his rally, while denouncing the storm of anti-Israel protests that popped up on campuses across the country, Trump vowed to deport foreign students who participated in them.
“When I’m president, we will not allow our colleges to be taken over by violent radicals,” the 45th president declared.
“And if you come here from another country and try to bring jihadism or anti-Americanism or anti-Semitism to our campuses, we will immediately deport you. You’ll be out of that school.”
Trump’s rally in Wildwood, some 150 miles south of the Manhattan courtroom where Trump has been holed up for nearly a month for his 34-count hush-money case, marked one of his biggest campaign outings of the season thus far.
It attracted between 80,000 to 100,000 people, according to estimates from his campaign and local officials.
He was joined by North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), and others.
The Post traveled aboard “Trump Force One” and got an up-close look at the former president’s Garden State ventures as Trump looks to expand the 2024 presidential map.
