By Michael GryboskiMainline Church Editor Wednesday, September 04, 2024

During a town hall event on Wednesday, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said humanity could be headed for another world war under the policies of the Biden-Harris administration and repeated his promise to carry out the “biggest deportation” in US history if re-elected.

The pre-recorded town hall event with Fox News' Sean Hannity was held at the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was first broadcast on Wednesday evening.

During his remarks, Trump claimed that under the Biden administration, America's southern border was the “worst border in the history of the world” and lamented that “we're letting everybody in.”

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“We have to stop it,” the former president said, declaring that “we have to do the largest deportation” of undocumented immigrants in American history once he is in office. Throughout his 2024 campaign, Trump has talked about carrying out deportations on an unprecedented scale, including during his speech at the Republican National Convention in July.

Trump also repeated the claim that Venezuelan gangs are “taking over” Aurora, Colorado, and “occupying apartments.” Local authorities have stated that the media has “exaggerated incidents that are isolated to a handful of problem areas alone” and do not affect most Aurora residents. Mayor Mike Coffman criticized the policies of the Biden-Harris administration, which enabled a large number of Venezuelan migrants to live in low-income housing in Aurora.

Trump said, “It's a sick and angry world,” claiming that events like Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on civilian communities in southern Israel and Russia's invasion of Ukraine beginning in 2022 “would never have happened” if he had to have been re-elected in 2020.

“We're going into World War III territory,” he asserted. “You need a president who won't take you to war. We're not going to have World War III when I'm elected, but with these clowns you have there now, you're going to end up having World War III.”

Kicking off the show after Hannity mentioned the deadly school shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, Trump promised: “We're going to heal our world.”

“We're going to eliminate all these wars that are starting everywhere because of incompetent American leadership,” he said. “We'll make it better.”

last month, Fox News announced that “Hannity” would present a pre-taped town hall event with Trump that would focus on various issues facing the country before the November election. Hannity said Fox News originally offered a debate between Trump and Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris instead of the town hall, which would have featured other Fox News anchors as moderators.

Trump and Harris are scheduled to debate each other next Tuesday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the ABC network serving as the host.

Under the rules for the debate, Trump and Harris' microphones will only be live for the presidential candidate who speaks during his turn, according to NBC News.

In a statement, the Harris campaign claimed that the vice president “will be fundamentally disadvantaged by this format, which will serve to shield Donald Trump from direct exchanges with the Vice President.”

“Despite our concerns, we understand that Donald Trump is at risk of skipping the debate altogether, as he has threatened to do before, if we do not agree to his preferred format,” the Harris campaign stated.

“We do not want to jeopardize the debate. That is why we have accepted the full rules proposed by the ABC, including muted microphones.”