Trump suggests military action against 'enemy from within' during Fox News interview - CNN

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CNN's expert panel responds to former President Donald Trump's suggestion to use the military to handle what he called “the enemy from within” on Election Day, saying he isn’t worried about chaos from his supporters or foreign actors, but instead from “radical left lunatics.”

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1. That may sound good until you are considered

an enemy.

[Justice matters.]

2. And that includes the media. One critic of that convicted felon and...

YOU will get arrested, tried, and sent to Gitmo. Wake up before it's too late for YOU, idiots!

Once in, the convicted felon will be a bloody dictator: YOU better wake up and stop sane-washing him!

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3. Maddowblog-Trump suggests using the military to address 'the enemy from within'

After referring to his American opponents as "scum," the Republican candidate suggested possibly using the military to respond to "the enemy from within."

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-suggests-using-military-address-enemy-rcna175255

Donald Trump broke new ground in his criticisms of Americans last year when the former president released a video in which he argued, among other things, “[T]he greatest threat to Western Civilization today is not Russia. It’s probably, more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible, U.S.A.-hating people that represent us.”

Months later, in a Veterans Day message, the Republican not only referred to many Americans as “vermin” — phrasing that echoed Hitler and Mussolini — he concluded, “The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within.”.....

That was new, but it wasn’t the most unsettling comment on the subject. The Washington Post reported:

Former president Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that he is worried about the prospect of unspecified actions by what he dubbed “radical left lunatics” on Election Day, urging that the National Guard or U.S. military be deployed on American soil against those he labeled “the enemy from within.”

.....In the next breath, in an apparent reference to Election Day concerns, the Republican concluded, “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.”

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.....Trump, meanwhile, has gone from describing many Americans as “evil” to condemning them as “vermin” to equating them with the foreign enemies to labeling them “the enemy from within” — who might even warrant some kind of military response.

Eight years later, “basket of deplorables” seems almost quaint.