New controversy from Donald Trump at a campaign event: “If I am not elected it will be a bloodbath for the US.”

 “If I am not elected it will be a bloodbath for the United States ,” former US President Donald Trump said this Saturday at a rally in Ohio, where there were no shortage of other controversial statements, such as when he said that immigrants “in some cases are not people, but I can't say that because the radical left says that it is a terrible thing to demonstrate . "

He also defined those arrested and convicted for the assault on Congress, on January 6, 2021, as “hostages” and “patriots . ”

“We will take care of them as soon as we get to the White House,” Trump promised.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden was defined as a “threat to democracy, and he is because he is incompetent.”

While it was unclear what exactly the former president meant by the risk of a “bloodbath ,” he frequently paints a dark picture of the country when he outlines his confrontation with Biden ahead of the presidential rematch in November. And he also employs increasingly intense rhetoric as he addresses the felony charges he faces in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The events of January 6 loom large in all of his campaign events, as Trump continues to denounce the election he lost four years ago.

The former president opened this Saturday's rally with a recording of the January 6 prisoners singing the national anthem. Waving to the crowd, Trump later said he would grant pardons to Trump-supporting “hostages” on the first day of his presidency.

“See the spirit of the hostages. And that's what they are: hostages ,” Trump said in his opening remarks at his rally.

Biden, for his part, has also continued to invoke the January 6 attack on the Capitol in his own speeches, warning that the November outcome is important for the fate of democracy.

Former Vice President Mike Pence broke with Trump on Friday and announced that he would not endorse him in 2024. On January 6, Trump supporters at the Capitol called for Pence to be hanged after Trump made him a target for his refusal to help in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.