Former US President Donald Trump spoke on Tuesday at the America First Policy Institute in Washington, DC and tore into the Biden administration’s policies.
“We made America great again,” Trump said, adding that under Biden, "Our country has been brought to its knees, literally brought to its knees, and who would have thought this could happen?"
"Inflation is the highest in 49 years, 9.1%, and a lot of people think it's much higher than that. Gas prices have reached the highest in the history of our country. We have become a beggar nation groveling to other countries for energy,” continued Trump.
"Millions of illegal aliens are stampeding across our wide open borders, pouring into our country. It's an invasion.”
"Democrat-run cities are setting all-time murder records. Our country is being dealt one historic humiliation after another on the world stage. And at home our most basic rights and liberties are totally under siege,” said the former President.
"The American dream is being torn to shreds, and we will not have a country left if this economic and social attack on civilization itself is not quickly reversed," he warned.
"If we don't have safety, we don't have freedom — we don't have a country," Trump said. "America First must mean safety first. We have to have safety,” he stressed.
"Starting with our new majorities in Congress next year, and continuing on to the next Republican president, we need an all-out effort to defeat violent crime in America — and strongly defeat it — and be tough and be nasty and be mean, if we have to."
Trump called on "defunding the police" to be stricken from America's vernacular, adding, "The mere concept of defunding the police should never again be stated or even heard. It was so, so dangerous."
"America is going to hell, and it's going to hell very fast," he stated.
The former President also once again asserted that his defeat in the election by Joe Biden was corrupt.
“I ran for president, I won, and I won a second time, but much better the second time, a lot better. I always say I ran the first time and I won. We actually did it twice,” he said.