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Trump Warns America Will Burn if Republicans Lose This Election

President Trump is claiming that the U.S. will burn like France if Democrats triumph in November’s midterm elections. At a rally in Park City, Kansas, Tuesday, Trump referenced the student protests in France, using anti-immigrant bigotry and Islamophobia to try and scare Republicans into turning out over the next two weeks. “Globalist left-wing have…

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Trump, Vance blame immigration for French riotsPresident Trump and Vice President Vance are placing the blame on immigration for the riots in France that grew violent over the weekend. “The migrants have taken over France,” Trump wrote Monday morning on Truth Social. “They must CLOSE THE BORDERS, FAST!” Vance over the weekend said, “Western liberals imported the third world into France...

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Trump says voters should ‘look at France’ to see ‘what’s at stake’ in midterm electionsThe president described France as “a once great nation that is being conquered, looted and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists and communists who hate Christianity.”

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Torched cars, ransacked businesses: Anti-Sharia crusader warns France 'civil war' could be imported to USA top House Republican blames France riots on mass migration, warning America could face the same future if it doesn't learn from the Paris chaos.

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