Trump during his speech at an election rally in Ohio (French)

Former US President and potential Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump warned that there will be a "bloodbath" in the country if he does not win the presidential elections scheduled for next November.

Trump's statements came in a speech during a massive election rally in Ohio on Saturday, in support of Governor Bernie Moreno before the Republican Senate primary elections next Tuesday.

"Now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for everyone, and that's the least that could happen. I declare it's going to be a bloodbath for the country," Trump told the crowd.

Trump added in his speech, "If I do not win the elections, I am not sure that another election will take place in the country."

However, the American Daily Beast newspaper said that during his speech, Trump was much more interested in expressing his complaints about the dozens of criminal indictments he currently faces and the crucial elections he lost to President Joe Biden than in promoting the election campaign in favor of Moreno.

Moreover, he painted a very bleak and pessimistic vision for the United States if he loses again to Biden this fall.

Trump complained about auto factories in Mexico and China, and said that if he returned to the White House, he would impose huge tariffs on any Chinese-made vehicles imported into the United States.

Trump went on to stress that China will not be able to sell any of its cars in the United States if he emerges victorious next November.

Trump's latest "troubling" comments came a day after his former vice president, Mike Pence, said that he could not "in good conscience" endorse the former president in his candidacy this year.

Pence has long been criticized by his former boss for certifying Biden's victory in the 2020 elections.

Trump: Now, If I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath.

It's going to be a bloodbath for the country.

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— Acyn (@Acyn) March 16, 2024

Pence and Trump

Pence, who ended his 2024 presidential campaign amid unpromising opinion poll numbers, told Fox News on Friday, “It is not surprising that I will not support Donald Trump this year,” adding that Trump “is pursuing an agenda that conflicts with the conservative agenda under which we have governed during our four years.” .

American media described Pence's announcement as "resounding" despite the fact that deep divisions have separated the two men since the end of Trump's term, in a way that would have made his support for the Republican billionaire surprising and not the other way around.

Last week, Trump won a sufficient number of delegates to win the Republican Party nomination, and will run again for the presidency against Democratic President Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential elections.

Disagreement prevailed between the two men after Trump tried to pressure Pence to help him overturn his defeat in the 2020 elections to Biden, and he repeatedly attacked him on social media when he did not implement the plan.

After several attempts by Trump and his allies to nullify the election results failed, the then president urged a crowd of his supporters to go to Congress headquarters, and they stormed the building on January 6, 2021, with some of them chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.”

Trump pledged to release what he called “hostages” from the attackers of the Congress building in early 2021, if he wins the presidential elections scheduled for next November.

Trump wrote on his “Truth Social” platform last Monday that “the first measures I will take as the next president will be to close the border with Mexico” and “release the unjustly imprisoned hostages of January 6, 2021.”

Trump's supporters stormed the US Congress building on January 6, 2021, to protest his loss of the presidential elections, which he described as fraudulent.

More than 1,350 people have been charged with involvement in the attacks on Congress, according to the latest figures issued by the Department of Justice last week.

Imprisonment sentences were issued against about 500 of them.

Trump previously described those imprisoned in connection with the attack as "hostages" and said that they should be released.

Source: Al Jazeera + American press