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At rally in Ohio, Trump knocks Biden on border, hints at 2024 plans

Sunday, 27 June 2021 5:38 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 27 June 2021 5:38 AM ]

Former US President Trump gestures as he smiles during his first post-presidency campaign rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio, US, June 26, 2021. (Reuters photo)

Former president Donald Trump has attacked the Biden administration over its immigration policies and sought to energize Republicans to take back majorities in Congress next year.

Speaking at his first rally on Saturday since leaving the White House, Trump again claimed his successor Joe Biden won the November 2020 election illegitimately.

The former president, who has previously suggested he will run for office again in 2024, dangled that possibility to the crowd at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, about a half-hour southwest of Cleveland.

"We won the election twice and it's possible we'll have to win it a third time. It's possible," he said.

Trump left office following the deadly attack by his supporters on the US Capitol on Jan. 6 and survived a second impeachment on a charge linked to the violence.

Pro-Trump supporters storm the Capitol building in Washington DC, January 6, 2021.

His plan to run again could be influenced by the outcome of various legal troubles. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has told Trump's lawyers it is contemplating lodging criminal charges against his family business, according to a report by the New York Times on Friday.

Trump also vowed at the rally that Republicans would take back Congress, predicting next year's elections would result in "giant Republican majorities" in both chambers.

"We will take back the House, we will take back the Senate, and we will take back America, and we will do it soon," he said.

Trump throwing hats to supporters on Saturday evening. (Photo via The New York Times)

During his speech on Saturday, Trump also touched upon the rising number of immigrants crossing over the US southern border, blaming Biden’s policies for the crisis.

"You have millions of people coming into our country. We have no idea who they are. Joe Biden is doing the exact opposite as we did," Trump said.

Biden's White House has, however, described Trump's immigration policies inhumane.

After assuming office in January, Biden issued a flurry of immigration-related executive decisions, including orders to end “extreme immigration enforcement”, and to preserve and fortify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which gives work permits and protection from deportation to people brought illegally to the US as minors.

The decision led to an influx of refugees and migrant children from South and Central America to the southern US border in recent weeks, forcing the authorities to recognize the situation on the south border as a crisis.

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