Trump calls 2024 election 'final battle' at first official campaign event

Texas - Former US President Donald Trump has held his first official rally for his 2024 presidential campaign in Waco, Texas, promising that "2024 will be the final battle" and that he will overcome the allegations leveled against him.

On Saturday, Trump held a rally at Waco Regional Airport attended by more than 15,000 of his supporters.

During his speech, he has criticized Democratic government officials and commended those convicted after the January 6, 2021 riots.

“2024 is the last fight, it will be the big one. If you bring me back to the White House, your reign will be over and America will be a free nation again," Trump said.

The 45th President repeated his conspiracy theories surrounding the "rigged" 2020 presidential election and raged against "arming law enforcement," branding the prosecutors who oversaw several investigations into his conduct as "absolute human scum."

The rally comes at a time when Trump has been arrested in New York City over a hush money payment in the closing days of the 2016 presidential campaign, in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, by the Justice Department over classified documents the FBI released in March in Mar-a-Lago and is under investigation for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the January 2021 riots.

Trump told the crowd that the investigation was part of "prosecutorial misconduct" employed by the opposition.

"The criminals who corrupt our justice system will be defeated, discredited and utterly disgraced," he said.

Maintaining the investigation was about "something that is not a felony, not a misdemeanor, not an affair," Trump told supporters, explaining how he had been the victim of "one witch hunt and one false investigation after another."