For the third time in a week, former president Donald Trump repeated his charge that Democrats allied against him are \u201cthe enemy from within\u201d in an interview with Fox News during which he called the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol \u201ca beautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump, in an interview with \u201cMedia Buzz\u201d that aired Sunday, referred to Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, both California Democrats, as \u201cbad people\u201d who threaten democracy. Interviewer Howard Kurtz asked, \u201cAre you prepared to say now that you will not use law enforcement to punish or prosecute your political opponents?\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump responded, \u201cExcuse me, that\u2019s what they\u2019re using on me.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a separate Fox News interview that aired on Oct. 13, Trump said that his foes could be \u201cvery easily handled\u201d by the National Guard, or, \u201cif really necessary, by the military.\u201d He repeated the line about the \u201cenemy from within\u201d days later during a Fox News town hall event.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou call Americans who don\u2019t support you \u2018the enemy within.\u2019 That\u2019s a pretty ominous phrase to use about other Americans,\u201d Kurtz noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s accurate,\u201d Trump replied, before referencing Pelosi and Schiff, two outspoken Trump critics.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are bad people. We have a lot of bad people,\u201d the former president said. \u201cBut when you look at shifty Schiff and some of the others, yeah, they are to me the enemy from within. I think Nancy Pelosi is an enemy from within.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ian Krager, a spokesman for Pelosi, said in a statement that in \u201ctalking about turning our military on his political opponents and the American people, Donald Trump is showing once again why his election would be a disaster for our country and our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schiff\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s campaign immediately seized upon Trump\u2019s remarks, posting several clips on X to underscore her campaign stump assertion that the former president is \u201cunstable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven in his Fox News safe space, Donald Trump cannot help but show himself as the unhinged, angry, unstable man that he is \u2014 focused on his own petty grievances and tired playbook of division,\u201d the Harris-Walz campaign said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Trump, during the interview, criticized Harris as incompetent and a Marxist who is going to \u201cruin this country.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also spoke in glowing terms about the size of his crowd and actions of the mob in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol \u2014 after which scores were injured, six people were left dead in the aftermath and 1,200 were arrested. Trump described the mob as a small group of people who \u201cpeacefully and patriotically\u201d went to the Capitol to \u201cprotest a rigged election.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a beauty to it and a love to it that I\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Harris last week criticized Trump for \u201cgaslighting\u201d Americans about the Jan. 6 attack.<\/p>\n
The former president on Sunday also dismissed warnings of the danger of a second Trump term from one of his own defense secretaries and his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Retired Gen. Mark A. Milley told author Bob Woodward that Trump is a \u201cfascist to the core\u201d and \u201cthe most dangerous person to this country,\u201d according to Woodward\u2019s new book.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were not my cup of tea, they were woke, not great generals,\u201d Trump said Sunday of Milley and former defense secretary Jim Mattis. \u201cI don\u2019t respect them as soldiers. I never did.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also refused to back down from his claims he made during his debate with Harris last month that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating other residents\u2019 pets \u2014 assertions that were quickly debunked by local and state officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s been debunked at all,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
On the Sunday talk shows, Trump surrogates dismissed concerns about his increasingly overheated campaign rhetoric and downplayed his statement that Democrats are the enemy from within.<\/p>\n
In an interview with CNN, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) first said Trump was talking about \u201cmarauding gangs.\u201d Then, when pressed, Johnson said that he did not believe Trump would actually use the military on his political opponents, as Trump had alleged last week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not hear President Trump in that clip say he\u2019s going to sic the military on Adam Schiff. That\u2019s not what he\u2019s saying,\u201d Johnson said<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s Fox interview was conducted at Trump Tower in New York on Saturday, hours before Trump flew to Pennsylvania and made headlines for riffing on the size of the genitals of famed golfer legend Arnold Palmer \u2014 he was \u201call man,\u201d Trump said. The event took place at an airport in Latrobe named after Palmer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
For the third time in a week, former president Donald Trump repeated his charge that Democrats allied against him are \u201cthe enemy from within\u201d in an interview with Fox News during which he called the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol \u201ca beautiful thing.\u201d Trump, in an interview with \u201cMedia Buzz\u201d that aired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}