45th President Donald Trump warned that the country is experiencing “tremendous anger” and headed into “perilous times” after Joe Biden’s Department of Justice and FBI authorized a raid on Mar-a-Lago, the former president’s resort home.
In his first print interview since the raid, given to Fox News, Trump warned the Democrats in control of the government that their actions inspired serious anger.
“The country is in a very dangerous position. There is tremendous anger, like I’ve never seen before,” Trump told the center right cable network. He stressed that “There has never been a time like this where law enforcement has been used to break into the house of a former president of the United States, and there is tremendous anger in the country — at a level that has never been seen before, other than during very perilous times.”
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Trump added that “People are so angry at what is taking place,” and urged the Democrats to moderate their behavior while offering to help soften rhetoric used on both sides of the political aisle.
“Whatever we can do to help — because the temperature has to be brought down in the country,” warned Trump. “If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”
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“I think they would want the same thing — I’ve never seen anything like this,” added the 45th President. “It is a very dangerous time for our country.”
Still, Trump explained that the anger makes sense – and perhaps should be expected – due to years of Democrats and their media allies spreading proven lies about him without repercussion.
He described the raid as the latest development in “years of fake witch hunts and phony Russia, Russia, Russia schemes and scams,” and bemoaned that “nothing happens to those people who perpetuate that — nothing happens with them.”
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“And then they break into a president’s house — a sneak attack where it was totally — no one ever thought a thing like this would happen,” Trump told Fox News.
A recent federal law enforcement bulletin, reported by Fox News, claims that “general calls” for “civil war” and “armed rebellion” have increased in the week since the raid on Trump’s home, including specific threats against law enforcement officials involved in the raid.
Tensions may have risen to new heights late last week, when Breitbart News revealed that the FBI agent who signed the receipt of items seized from Trump’s home also wrote the charging documents for one of his supporters who attended January 6 protests in Washington, D.C. last year.
