Away from his New York trial, Donald Trump's campaign rallies are business as usual

Donald Trump's first campaign rallies since the start of his criminal hush money trial in New York barely mentioned the reason for his absence from the campaign trail.

But in lengthy speeches in Waukesha, Wis., and Freeland, Mich., Wednesday, Trump continued to escalate his rhetoric around what a second term would look like — and the consequences he foresees if he doesn't win.

Trump echoed comments he made in a TIME Magazine interview that published earlier this week outlining an aggressive take on the presidency, including a push to revive the authority to withhold congressionally appropriated funds and give police further immunity from prosecution to crack down on immigrants and perceived crime hotspots.

Many of his signature proposals and policies mentioned frequently at campaign events were on display: increased oil drilling, a rollback of President Joe Biden's economic policies, including the Inflation Reduction Act and a massive bipartisan infrastructure bill; and the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.

He also mentioned recent protests roiling college campuses around Israel's military action in Gaza in response to an Oct. 7 attack on the country by Hamas.

He called on those schools to "vanquish the radicals and take back our campuses for all of the normal students" while making inflammatory remarks about refugees from the conflict as part of his hardline immigration views.

In his Wisconsin speech, Trump implied Palestinian refugees resettled in the U.S. would bring "jihad" and warned of an "Oct. 7-style attack" as he reiterated his proposal to enact a travel ban from majority-Muslim countries and vowed to oversee "the largest deportation in the history of our country."

Over the course of nearly three