
Donald Trump raged against Joe and Hunter Biden at his first campaign rally since the impeachment inquiry began, calling the former vice president an a** kisser and describing his son as a 'loser.'

'He was only a good Vice President because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's a**,' he said of Biden as the crowd cheered and roared.

The president didn't hold back in a fiery, 102-minute speech to the packed Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he mocked the intelligence and business capabilities of Hunter Biden.

'Joe's son Hunter got thrown out of the Navy and became a genius on Wall Street in two days. Whatever happened to Hunter, where the h*** is he? Where is Hunter? Fellows, I have an idea for a new t-shirt? I love the cops, but let's do another t-shirt. Where is Hunter? Where is he?,' Trump said.

Hunter Biden has stayed out of the spotlight but the former vice president has said his son will join him on the campaign trail, although he did not give a date.

Trump also pushed the unproven theory Hunter Biden made $1.5 billion in a deal with China.

'Hunter, you are a loser, what you have $1.5 billion?,' Trump mocked. He compared that to his own negotiations with China as part of his trade war.

Donald Trump raged against Joe and Hunter Biden at his first campaign rally since the impeachment inquiry began

The president didn't hold back in his 102-minute speech, where he mocked the intelligence and business capabilities of Hunter Biden

President Trump praised all the bright red t-shirts worn by his rally goers at the packed Target Center in Minneapolis

A black t-shirt with a white 'where's Hunter' logo is for sale for $25 on the Trump / Pence campaign website

'I'm dealing with people right now, the top Chinese negotiators, and Hunter, Hunter, he goes in and he is meeting and he walks out. With $1.5 billion, $1.5 billion!,' he said. 'These are not the same Chinese negotiators that I'm dealing with, I can tell you.'

The $1.5 billion appears to refer to the amount BHR, a Chinese equity firm where Hunter sat on the board, was trying to raise. The company was trying to raise the money - not for Hunter Biden's personal use although he owned a 10 per cent stake in the company. Trump has asked China to investigate the matter.

The president also turned his fury on his rival Joe Biden.

'And your father was never considered smart. He was never considered a good senator,' Trump said and then added: 'He was only a good Vice President because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's a**.'

He charged the Bidens got rich while America got 'robbed.'

'The Biden family got rich, and that's all substantiated. While America got robbed, that is what happened,' he said.

Trump's campaign promptly started selling 'Where's Hunter?' t-shirts.

Thousands of attendees listen as President Donald Trump addresses crowds at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Thursday

In the rally, which was interrupted six times by protesters, Trump pushed the unproven theory Hunter Biden made $1.5 billion in a deal with China

Trump charged the Bidens got rich while America got 'robbed.' 'The Biden family got rich, and that's all substantiated. While America got robbed, that is what happened,' he said

Campaign Manager Brad Parscale tweeted out 'Get your Where's Hunter t-shirt NOW!' with a link to the black t-shirt and 'where's Hunter' logo on the campaign website. It sells for $25 a pop.

The president was on a roll and the crowd ate it up. 'We love you Trump,' someone yelled.

'I love you too, darling,' the president replied.

His supporters repeatedly cheered on the president and booed at his lines attacking Democrats and the media.

'Isn't it much better when I go off script,' Trump said as the crowd yelled 'Trump, Trump, Trump.'

But the president was in Democratic blue country, which was evident in the number of protesters both in and outside of his rally.

His rally was interrupted six times by protesters, one of whom held a 'resign' sign and blew a whistle to get attention. Another wore a 'climate justice now' t-shirt.

The president also turned his fury on his rival Joe Biden. 'And your father was never considered smart. He was never considered a good senator,' he said

The president's supporters repeatedly cheered Trump on and booed at his lines attacking Democrats and the media

Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence walk on stage during the campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Pence speaks on stage about the 2020 reelection campaign before introducing the President on Thursday night

'Go home to mommy,' Trump told one of them. 'Mommy says, I saw you on television tonight, I love, don't you ever do that again!'

He also praised the security team and police officers who were charged with removing the protesters.

'Man do the cops act fast, he's already gone,' Trump said.

'I've had good service but I've never had anything like that. I look up and the guy is already gone,' he added.

Outside protesters holding 'impeach' signs mingled with Trump supporters in the rain. Little baby Trump balloons flew around and home made signs slammed the president.

The president warned the crowd Democrats want to take the 2016 election away from them.

'They want to erase your vote like it never existed,' he said. 'They want to erase your voice, and they want to erase your future. But they will fail because in America, the people rule again.'

One of thousands of Trump supports at the venue on Thursday holds a flag reading 'Trump 2020: Make America Great Again'

Dozens at the event wore red T-shirts and baseball caps reading 'Make America Great Again' for the packed rally on Thursday

He also went after Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who represents the district where his rally took place, asking the crowd of her election: 'How the h*** did that ever happen?'

'Congresswoman Omar is an American hating socialist,' he said of the Democratic lawmaker, who is often a target of his rage.

'She pleaded for compassion, for ISIS recruits, right here in Minnesota,' the president said.

He rehashed the criticism of her, including her comments about Muslims that were taken by some as supporter of the September 11th attacks – which Omar said was not the case – and slammed her criticism of Israel.

'How can you have such a person represent you in Minnesota? I'm very angry. She is a disgrace to our country and she is one of the big reasons that I'm going to win as the Republican party is going to win Minnesota in 13 months,' he added.

He also brought up the congresswoman's personal life, citing a report about her past marriage.

'Omar's legal husband was Omar's brother and that she had married him for fraudulent purposes,' he cited, adding: 'You mean, maybe like coming into the United States, may be?'

A protester with a whistle attempts to interrupt Trump as he speaks during a campaign rally in Minnesota on Thursday

A protester gestures as Trump holds a campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is removed by cops

A third protester in white T-shirt reading 'climate justice now' in bright yellow font is removed from the rally

Trump steps off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington as he returns from the rally

Trump returns to the White House in Washington, DC, Friday after speaking at a Keep America Great Rally in Minneapolis

Omar has denied allegations her husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was her brother, but the website Politifact notes there has been no conclusive evidence one way or another and that little is known about Elmi.

Trump also criticized the state for accepting large numbers of refugees from Somalia and boasted about how he's tried to cut down the number of refugees into the country.

Omar and her family came to the United States when she was a teenager to escape violence in Somalia.

'As you know, maybe especially in Minnesota, I kept another promise. I issued an executive action they can clear that no refugees would be resettled in any city or any state without the express written consent of that city by that state. So speak to your mayor,' he said as the crowd cheered.

'As you know, for many years, leaders in Washington brought large numbers of refugees to New York state from Somalia. Without considering the impact on schools and communities and taxpayers. I promise you, that as president, I would give local communities a greater say in refugee policy and put in place in hand setting and responsible immigration control. And I have done that. Since coming into office, I have reduced refugee resettlement by 85 per cent,' he said.

Minneapolis is home to the largest population of Somalis in the United States.

Thousands of anti-Trump protesters lit bonfires, burned ‘Make America Great Again’ hats and waved signs outside the Target Center

Lt. Bob Kroll of Minneapolis police started selling red 'Cops for Trump' t-shirts and spoke at the rally

Trump invited a group of cops up on stage with him at the busy rally, during which he spoke for more than 100 minutes

A protester holds up a sign depicting Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid Trump supporters

The president also slammed Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for he and his police chief, Medaria Arradonon, barring off-duty members of the city's police force from attending the rally and other political events in uniform.

That prompted an angry backlash from the police union, led by Lt. Bob Kroll, which sold red 'Cops for Trump' - a number of which were worn by Trump supporters to the rally Thursday night.

'There are a lot of very beautiful red t-shirts in the audience,' he said at the beginning of his rally.

'I love law enforcement I love the cops, I love the police. Minneapolis, Minneapolis, you got a rotten mayor. You got to change the mayor, you've got a bad mayor. You got a bad mayor,' he told the crowd.

He railed against 'the lousy mayor that won't let the cops' support him.

Kroll spoke at the event before Trump went on stage and the president invited him back during his remarks, along with 10 other police officers, one of whom carried a sign that read: 'Law & order. Vote Trump.'

''There's so many red shirts and there are plenty of people without the red shirts and I just want to tell you, the respect that we have for law enforcement is unbound, it's unbound. Come up,' Trump said.

'What can I say after that?,' Kroll said.

He did note people could watch him on Fox News later.

The Target Center, where Trump held his rally, has a 20,000 seat capacity and Trump later claimed on Twitter he had 72,000 ticket requests

Trump attacked Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (pictured in May) for both her professional life and personal

The president also slammed House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Speaker Nancy Pelosi as 'sick'

Trump also defended his decision to bring U.S. troops home from Syria.

'Turkey is right now waging a very tough campaign against the Kurds. We got along with the Kurds, we helped the Kurds and don't forget, they're also fighting for their land,' Trump said.

He added the one option the U.S. had was to 'bring our troops back home.'

'We don't have any soldiers there because we left, we won, we left, take a victory United States,' he said. 'Bring our troops back home.'

'It's time to bring them home, we've done our job,' he added.

The president also slammed House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Speaker Nancy Pelosi as 'sick.'

It came as he tweeted that the US has three options in response to the Turkish invasion of northern Syria, including sending troops back into the region.

Trump wrote: 'We have one of three choices: Send in thousands of troops and win Militarily, hit Turkey very hard Financially and with Sanctions, or mediate a deal between Turkey and the Kurds!'

He reiterated his defense that his July 25 call with the Ukrainian president was 'perfect' and then went on the attack.

'We released the transcript of the call which was so good that that crooked Adam Schiff, this guy is crooked. He had to make up a fake conversation that never happened and he delivered it to the United States Congress and the American people. It was a total fraud and the Nancy Pelosi said oh, I think the president said that. These people are sick,' he railed as the crowd booed the Democratic lawmakers.

He added of Pelosi: 'She's either really stupid or she's really lost it — or maybe there's a certain dishonesty in there.'

He complained 'the do-nothing Democrat extremists have gone so far to the left that they believe it should not be a crime to cross our border illegally and it should be a crime to have a totally appropriate casual beautiful, accurate phone call with a foreign leader,' he said.

'I don't think so,' he added.

But he expressed confidence it would not hurt his re-election chances.

'I think we're going to have a turn out the likes of which we have never seen in the history,' he bragged.

He also attacked one of his favorite targets - former FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, who were having an extramarital affair and whose texts showed they did not want Trump to win the election. The two were part of a counter intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.

Trump let loose on a mocking conversation of the two talking in bed.

Eric Trump got the crowd at his father's campaign rally riled up Thursday night by slamming Joe and Hunter Biden

Eric had the crowd yelling 'lock him up' about Joe and Hunter Biden

'She's going to win, 10 million to one, she's going to win. I'm telling you, Peter, she's going to win Peter, I love you so much,' he said mimicking Page's support of Hillary Clinton.

'I love you, Peter! I love you too, Lisa. Lisa! Lisa! Lisa, oh, god, I love you Lisa. And if she doesn't win, Lisa, we get an insurance policy, Lisa! We will get the son of the outs. We got an insurance policy. And we are living through the insurance policy, that's what it is. The phony Russia hoax. Lisa, I love you,' he kept on as the crowd cheered.

Eric Trump got the crowd at his father's campaign rally riled up Thursday night by slamming Joe and Hunter Biden, getting the crowd to yell 'lock him up, lock him up.'

It was the first time that chant appeared at a Donald Trump campaign rally - a play off the popular campaign chant the president invoked against rival Hillary Clinton: 'lock her up.'

'How do you think Joe Biden – how do you think his son is feeling right now with his son embezzling a lot of money?,' Eric Trump asked the cheering crowd ahead of the president's remarks.

'Maybe lock her up goes to lock him up,' he added.

'Lock him up, lock him up, lock him up,' the crowd yelled back.

'We don't need to lock them up. We just need to beat the hell out of them,' Eric Trump responded.

The president praised his son when he came on stage later: 'He's my little six foot six boy, Eric Trump.'

Eric Trump has been a more public and vocal defender of his father in the wake of the Democrats' impeachment investigation into the president, making frequent appearances on Fox News to tow the family line.

The Trumps have railed against the Bidens, pushing an unproven theory they profited from Hunter Biden's work on the board of a Ukrainian gas company and claiming Biden, as vice president, pushed to have a Ukrainian prosecutor fired to the benefit of said company.

It was President Trump's push to the Ukrainian president in a July 25 phone call to investigate the Bidens that led to the impeachment inquiry.

The packed arena cheered on Eric Trump in his short remarks. The crowd was fired up, doing the wave and yelling 'Trump, Trump, Trump' ahead of the rally's start.

The president claimed on Thursday that more than 80,000 people requested tickets to his rally in Ilhan Omar's congressional district - a Democratic territory.

That number changed when arrived at his rally later in the evening, with the president upping it to 100,000.

'So we have 20,000 plus people inside. We just set a new record,' Trump said. 'And we have 25,000 people that we still love outside. And close to 100,000 people wanted to come tonight.'

It's unclear how many people were outside the Target Center, which seats 20,000, but several of them were protesting Trump's rally.

The president also claimed Omar, the congresswoman he frequently derides on Twitter, will help him win the state, which hasn't gone to a Republican presidential candidate in almost 50 years.

'I think I can win,' Trump said at the White House before he left to go to the state. 'It's been a long time since a Republican won. We have a 20,000 seat auditorium. We have essentially Madison Square Garden and it sold out - over 80,000 people requested tickets. It it'll be totally sold out. It I don't know who is going but it'll be totally sold out.'

'I think I can win Minnesota, yes. I think Omar is helping us to win in Minnesota and other places,' he argued but did expand on the reason behind his thinking.

Trump has pushed to paint the liberal, controversial lawmaker as the face of the Democratic Party.

Protesters - including the infamous Baby Trump balloon blimp - waited outside the Target Center here Thursday as Trump prepared to hold his first campaign rally since Democrats started a formal impeachment inquiry into his presidency.

And his chosen location is one Democratic territory - the congressional district of Ilhan Omar, the lawmaker Trump frequently derides and says should go 'back' where she came from.

A handful of protesters and a few supporters had gathered outside the 20,000 set arena on a drizzling Thursday afternoon and their numbers grew as the rally kickoff time got closer.

'Impeach Trump Now' read one protester's sign while another held one that read 'Lock Him Up' - a reference to the 'lock her up' chant Trump supporters chant when he mentions Hillary Clinton.

The Baby Trump balloon blimp was seen atop a building across the street from Trump's campaign rally site on Thursday

Trump is bringing his campaign to Democratic territory - the congressional district of Ilhan Omar who he frequently derides

The Trump Baby Balloon blimp bobbed on the rooftop of a building across the street as people stood below taking photos of it with their smart phones.

But there were Trump supporters present too.

There were a few people wearing 'Make America Great Again' gear - sporting the signature campaign theme of the president's. One young man wore a jacket made out of a 'Make America Great Again' sign.

Trump's stop here and his campaign's investment in the state shows their determination to lock it into the his column next year.

On Wednesday, second lady Karen Pence and Lara Trump, the president's daughter-in-law, held a Women for Trump event in the city. Vice President Mike Pence was arriving ahead of Trump to meet with local law enforcement and visit a factory.

Hillary Clinton won Minnesota by 1.5 per cent in the 2016 election - a sliver of a win that Trump wants to overturn. It would be hard for a Democrat to win in 2020 without Minnesota.

'I think it's a great state and we're going to have a lot of fun tomorrow night,' Trump said at the White House on Wednesday.

There is plenty of political fodder for Trump to get into on Thursday night - both on the national and local level.

And he enjoys throwing out the political red meat to his supporters - who happily cheer him on.

But the reaction to his speech will be closely watched in this Democratic stronghold.

Last year, Minneapolis elected a black Democratic refugee from Somalia as their member of Congress and Trump has targeted Ilhan Omar repeatedly, deriding her as one of the 'squad' of four, female lawmakers he likes to target.

Trump has suggested the four minority lawmakers go 'back where they came from' - despite the fact only Omar was born outside of the United States.

At a rally in North Carolina earlier this summer, his supporters yelled 'send her back' when he mentioned Omar, who he is pushing as a liberal symbol of the Democratic party.

Omar tweeted Trump was coming to Minnesota to 'stoke the flames of hatred and division' ahead of his speech on Thursday

In the four rallies he's held since then, the chant has not returned.

For her part, Omar used Trump's rally to ask for donations to the state Democratic party.

'Trump is coming to Minnesota today to stoke the flames of hatred and division. That's not who we are or what we stand for. @MinnesotaDFL needs help to combat Trump on the ground. Join them here,' she wrote on Twitter Thursday afternoon with a link to a fundraising page.

And Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman Ken Martin, the state party chairman, accused the president of breaking his campaign promises.

'Trump is coming to our state after spending the week attacking our hardworking public servants and facing scandals on every front. We already know he has broken his promise to the people in our state to work for them - Minnesotans recognize a scam when we see one,' he said in a statement.

The president also got into a Twitter war with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over the security costs of his event.

The fracas erupted after the Trump campaign said the city of Minneapolis presented the operator of Target Center a $530,000 bill for security costs, which the arena operator had sought to pass along to the campaign.

The city has shut down several streets around the center for security reasons with police officers patrolling the area.

Frey earlier defended the security cost estimate, saying it was reasonable and that he had a duty to taxpayers to ensure safety.

Trump himself took to Twitter to air his grievances, writing on Tuesday: 'Radical Left Dem Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is doing everything possible to stifle Free Speech despite a record sell-out crowd at the Target Center.'

A crowd of hundreds of women turned out for a 'Women for Trump' event fronted by Second Lady Karen Pence (left) and President Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump (right)

The president's campaign has accused Frey of 'abusing the power of his office and attempting to extort' the campaign by 'conjuring a phony and outlandish bill for security in an effort to block a scheduled Keep America Great rally'

Despite the dispute over security costs, Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale said that the rally would go on as scheduled.

'The Target Center has backed off cancelling the contract,' Parscale said in a statement on Tuesday. 'Consistent with the original agreement with the venue, the Trump campaign has not agreed to pay any additional funds.'

The Trump campaign had earlier threatened to sue the city of Minneapolis over the costs.

And the president used the incident to attack Frey and Omar - via Twitter of course.

The president said in a Tuesday morning tweet, 'The lightweight mayor is hurting the great police and other wonderful supporters. 72,000 ticket requests already. Dump Frey and Omar! Make America Great Again!'

'Yawn,' Frey tweeted back. 'Welcome to Minneapolis where we pay our bills, we govern with integrity, and we love all of our neighbors.'

A Republican presidential candidate hasn't won Minnesota since Richard Nixon in 1972.

A poll from the Alliance for a Better Minnesota released on Wednesday ahead of Trump's visit showed 52 per cent of registered voters would vote for the Democratic candidate next year, while 42 per cent would vote for Trump.