With regard to the next election, Donald Trump threatened “radical” leftists on Sunday, stating he would back the use of US military force against Americans he labelled as “the enemy from within” if they tampered with the voting process.
“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even the people that have come in and destroyed our country,” Trump told Fox News show “Sunday Morning Futures,” referring to American citizens as opposed to migrants he criticizes for flooding into the country.
“We have some very bad people, we have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the — and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military,” Trump said. “Because they can’t let that happen.”
In response to a query regarding his expectations for Election Day, the former president, a Republican, stated that, although he thought the vote would be free and fair, he was unsure “whether it will be peaceful.” President Joe Biden made this statement last week.
During his speech, Trump asserted that Americans are “more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries.”
Trump’s Democratic opponent for the presidency, Vice President Kamala Harris, quickly retaliated against the Republican’s outrageous comments.
“I know people have grown numb to Trump over the past decade, but this should be shocking” to Americans, said Ian Sams, a Harris campaign spokesman.
“Donald Trump is suggesting that his fellow Americans are worse ‘enemies’ than foreign adversaries, and he is saying he would use the military against them,” Sams said.
“Taken with the Supreme Court’s decision to give presidents immunity (for their official actions as commander in chief), and Trump’s vow to be a ‘dictator on day one’ willing to allow the ‘termination’ of the Constitution… Scary stuff,” he added on social media platform X.
Following his loss to Biden in 2020, Trump accused massive fraud and persisted in his ludicrous and extensively refuted assertion that he had won.
Enraged by his falsehoods, pro-Trump protestors stormed the US Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021, in an attempt in vain to stop the election’s certification.
According to reports, Trump has asked to utilise a military plane in the closing weeks of the campaign after two unsuccessful attempts to kill him in as many months.
