Trump calls political opponents ‘savages,’ says they will try to steal 2024 election

Former President Donald Trump called those pushing criminal cases against him “savages” and warned about “a level of hatred I’ve never seen” in the country, in an interview posted Wednesday just before the other major GOP presidential candidates debated for the first time.

He also said he expects opponents will try to steal the 2024 election from him, or any other Republican who emerges from the primary.

“They’re going to try,” he told Tucker Carlson in an 45-minute interview on X, formerly Twitter.

The host at one point ticked off the impeachments and criminal cases against Mr. Trump, and wondered whether the former president’s opponents will now “try to kill you.”