When former President Donald Trump returned to New Hampshire on Saturday, he was eager to continue leveraging the Israel-Hamas war to draw a contrast with President Joe Biden, his likely 2024 general election opponent.
Trump’s speech in Claremont focused on delivering peace through strength, with the former president arguing that the US and the world were in a more peaceful position during his time in office than they have been under his successor.
“For four straight years under the Trump administration, I kept America safe. I kept Israel safe. I kept Ukraine safe and I kept the world safe,” the former president said.
Trump returned to the Granite State on the heels of his recent testimony at his New York civil fraud trial. Lawyers for Trump, his adult sons and their company will begin their defense on Monday.
But a separate legal proceeding appeared to be top of mind during the rally after Trump’s legal team formally told a federal court late Friday that he would like his election subversion trial in Washington, DC, to be televised.
“Let’s let the public decide because I want cameras in every inch of that courthouse,” he told the crowd of New Hampshire voters.
Besides his legal issues, Biden and the war in Israel and Gaza, Trump, who rarely sticks to prepared remarks exclusively, touched on a wide range of other topics.
He promised to sign an executive order on Day 1 of a potential second term that would cut funding for the shelter and transportation of undocumented immigrants and redirect a portion of the savings to provide “shelter and treatment for our own homeless veterans.”
“We’re not treating our veterans right,” the former president said on Veterans Day to a crowd that included many former service members.
Trump’s New Hampshire event comes just days after he skipped…
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