Former President Donald Trump took aim at President Joe Biden in a speech, calling him "an enemy of the state" while talk swirled that Trump possibly may testify before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Trump delivered the speech where he lampooned Biden at his first rally since the Aug. 8 FBI raid of his Mar-a-Lago home, which collected classified documents the president took with him after leaving office.
The comments came in response to Biden's claim that Republicans who follow Trump were a "threat" to democracy.
"Not every Republican, not even a majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology," Biden said. "But there's no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country."
Trump shared his thoughts on Biden's speech, saying that no president has ever delivered one like it before.
"Joe Biden came to Philadelphia, Pa., to give the most vicious, hateful, and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president, vilifying 75 million citizens … as threats to democracy and as enemies of the state. He's an enemy of the state," Trump said.
Trump was speaking in support of Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano.
"Two months from now, the people of Pennsylvania are going to fire the radical left Democrats, and you are going to elect Doug Mastriano as your next governor, and you are going to send my friend Oz — he is a great guy — to the U.S. Senate," Trump said. "You're going to elect an amazing slate of true 'America First' Republicans to Congress."
However, Trump's comments have now been overshadowed by the possibility of being subpoenaed by the House select committee that met Tuesday to discuss whether or not they would do so.
Trump has continued to be in headlines throughout recent weeks as more surfaces about what was going on in the White House following his defeat in the 2020 election.
A new book written by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman depicts Trump's conversations with his aides and his claims that he would not leave the house no matter what happened, CNN reported.
"I'm just not going to leave," Trump told one aide, Haberman wrote in her book.
The former president was adamant he remained in power despite losing to President Biden, and last month he even took to his social media site Truth Social to demand a new election — almost two years later — after claims that the FBI influenced the suppression of stories surrounding Hunter Biden's laptop before the election.
Trump continued that notion while speaking at his rally, saying that Biden has used the Justice Department to attack him personally.
"The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters, controlled by radical left scoundrels, lawyers, and the media, who tell them what to do," Trump said.
As for Trump's handling of the documents, the investigation remains ongoing, with a special master expected to be selected soon.
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