DONALD TRUMP labelled US President Joe Biden “an enemy of the state” in a weekend Pennsylvania rally considered a launchpad for his campaign to reclaim the White House.

The rally, the first the ex-president addressed since an FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago palace in Florida, underlined the deepening division between Republicans and Democrats following a Biden rally last Thursday in which he said Mr Trump’s followers were “pro-insurrection” and a threat to US democracy.

Mr Trump staged the rally to support Pennsylvania Senator Doug Mastriano, a far-right politician who has posed in Confederate army uniform and advocates a total ban on abortion as well as further relaxation of the US’s notoriously lax gun access laws. Mr Mastriano is running to be the state’s next governor.