CONCORD, NH — Donald Trump’s second term as president would feature mass deportations and the reinstatement of the long-abandoned practice of executive impoundment, the 45th president said at a campaign stop.

The ex-commander-in-chief was the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women’s 76th Lilac Luncheon on Tuesday, a traditional stop for presidential candidates visiting the first in the nation primary state in a nominating year.

Trump, just weeks past his indictment on 37 federal felony charges stemming from his alleged mishandling of classified information, seemed entirely unshaken by the historic accusations leveled against him and stuck to his stream-of-thought campaign speech.

“As you know you know, crooked Joe Biden ordered his top political opponent arrested!” Trump declared, not mentioning the grand jury that delivered the blow. “But because the public is really smart my numbers went up.”

Trump isn’t wrong about his position in the 2024 presidential, his poll numbers show. He leads the conservative field by wide margins and recent surveys show that if the election were held now Trump would beat Biden.

Trump’s speech Tuesday was wide-ranging and lasted more than an hour. He did not take questions, nor were the press allowed to interact with his staff or the audience.

After claiming he and his supporters had been fighting side by side “to rescue our country from sinister forces who hate it and want to destroy it” for seven years, Trump declared the coming election was the most important in history.

“Our country is going to hell. On November 5th, 2024 we’re going to stand up to the Marxists, communists, fascists, and globalists. We’re going to evict crooked Joe Biden; he’s crooked as hell,” Trump said, noting he was repurposing the nickname he used for his first presidential opponent for his third.

Trump said Biden is “owned by China,” more than any other president, and that he would appoint a special prosecutor to look into the commander-in-chief’s alleged dealings with the Chinese Communist Party.

Trump asked the audience if they thought he would have been elected without his starring as the host of the Apprentice, before attacking CNN.

He then went on to say he would fight to “restore the president’s historic impoundment power. A lot of you don’t know what that is.”

The former president said that The Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which limits the president’s power to hold and not spend appropriated federal funds, and also established the House and Senate Budget Committees and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, is unconstitutional.

“We’re going to bring (impoundment) back and we will squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy,” he said.

Trump promised that, if re-elected, he would finish the border wall he promised ahead of his first term but never delivered and that he would “use all necessary state, local, federal and military resources to carry out the largest domestic deportation operation.”

“These are hardened, many of them, hardened criminals,” he said.