Trump makes wild claims on immigration and boasts about Musk donations in first rally since shooting

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Elsewhere, Trump described the shooting as the moment he “took a bullet for democracy.” JD Vance was joining Trump at a rally for the first time since joining the ticket The former president then moved onto mocking the Democratic circus around whether Joe Biden will remain their 2024 presidential candidate. Elsewhere, he called Nancy Pelosi “crazy,” and accused her of turning on Joe Biden “like a dog,” after reports she privately told the president he should step aside and can’t beat Trump in November. “Just relax, chill, you’ve got so much nuclear weapons,” Trump told the crowd. “This is an invasion of our country,” Trump added of migrants entering the US, people who he claimed were leading the “plunder, rape, and slaughter of our American suburbs and cities.” In fact there’s no documented relationship between increased migration and crime, and studies suggest immigrants are less likely than those born in the US to break the law.