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Trump urges using military against ‘enemy from within’ on Election Day

Trump urges using military against ‘enemy from within’ on Election Day

Former President Donald Trump suggested using the military to handle what he called “the enemy from within” on Election Day, saying that he isn’t worried about chaos from his supporters or foreign actors, but instead from “radical left lunatics.”

Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo in an interview yesterday on“Sunday Morning Futures.” that  “I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. Radical left lunatics.

“I think it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen,” he added.

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The former president, whose supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to thwart Congress’ certification of his 2020 election loss, downplayed any threat from his voters.

“No, I don’t think — not from the side that votes for Trump,” the former president said when Bartiromo asked whether he was expecting chaos on Election Day. When she alluded to the Justice Department arresting and charging an Afghan national for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack in the US on Election Day and cited the threat of “outside agitators” and undocumented immigrants, Trump pivoted to talking about political opponents on the left.

“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even the people that have come in and destroying our country, by the way, totally destroying our country, the towns, the villages, they’re being inundated,” he said, referring to immigrants whom Trump has repeatedly attacked with dehumanizing rhetoric.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign seized on Trump’s comments, arguing that they should “alarm every American.”

Trump urges using military against ‘enemy from within’ on Election Day

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