Trump warns there would be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election

Donald Trump has warned there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he doesn’t win the upcoming presidential election in a horrifying speech.

The former president of the United States ominously warned there would be a ‘bloodbath for the country’ if he isn’t re-elected when Americans go to the polls in November.

He also described migrants as ‘animals’ in response to the murder of Laken Riley, who was allegedly killed by an undocumented migrant.

Critics called the incendiary remarks as a ‘threat’ – while Trump supporters claimed the remark had been taken out of context as it actually referred to a clampdown on foreign car imports.

Speaking at an airfield rally in Dayton, Ohio, Trump was campaigning in support of Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno.

He said: ‘Mexico has taken over a period of 30 years, 34 percent of the automobile manufacturing business in our country.

Former president Trump was speaking in support of Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno (Picture: KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP)

‘China now is building a couple of massive plants where they’re going to build the cars in Mexico, and they think that they’re going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border.

‘Let me tell you something to China. If you’re listening President Xi, and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal.

‘Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, if you think you’re going to get that and not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the cars to us – no – we’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every car that comes across the line.

‘If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.’ 

Retired FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi was among those who raised concerns.

Writing on X, he said: ‘Trump says if he’s not elected “it will be a blood bath for the country”.

‘FYI, if he IS elected, it will also be a blood bath based on his intentions. The choice is as clear as the threat.’

Former house speaker Nancy Pelosi also weighed in, telling CNN: ‘We just have to win the election, because he’s even predicting a ‘bloodbath. What does that mean? He’s going to exact a bloodbath? There’s something wrong here. 

Nancy Pelosi said there was ‘something wrong’ with Trump’s speech (Picture: AP)

‘How respectful I am of the American people and their goodness, but how much more do they have to see from him to understand that this isn’t what our country is about?’   

Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer also accused Trump of doubling ‘down on his threats of political violence.’

He said: ‘He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge.’

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said the former president had clearly been talking about the impact of a second Biden term on the auto industry and broader economy.

‘Crooked Joe Biden and his campaign are engaging in deceptively, out-of-context editing,’ he said.

Trump also referred to criminal migrants as ‘snakes’ and ‘animals’, and claimed that ‘what’s happening to our country’ with the ‘influx’ of immigration ‘has not happened before’.

He said: ‘All over the world, crime is down, because they’ve sent them to the United States of America because we have a stupid president that allows this to happen. Stupid.

‘In some cases they’re not people in my opinion, but I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.

‘They’ll say “you’ll have to vote against him because did you hear what he said about humanity?” I’ve seen the humanity, and these are bad – these are animals, ok.’

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