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Dennis Donovan

(23,841 posts)
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 01:33 PM Sunday

The Independent: Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day calling them 'the enemy from within'

Frank Figliuzzi
I guess when the Supreme Court says you’re immune, they let you do it: Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day

1:26 PM · Oct 13, 2024


The Independent - Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day calling them ‘the enemy from within’

‘I think the bigger problem are the people from within, we have some very bad people, sick people, radical left lunatics,’ Trump chillingly told Fox News Maria Bartiromo

John Bowden
Washington DC
9 minutes ago

Donald Trump has chillingly suggested sending the military or National Guard after US citizens on Election Day.

The ex-president gave a sit-down interview with Maria Bartiromo, one of the Fox News hosts whose role in pushing Trump’s lies about the 2020 election landed her bosses in the crosshairs of a billion-dollar lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. It was later settled to the tune of $787m.

In the interview, which aired on Sunday, Bartiromo was back on typical form, suggesting that America was headed for possible violence on Election Day due to scores of immigrants supposedly being let in illegally by the Biden administration. That was a debunked conspiracy the Trump team floated in both 2016 and 2020 — the lie that millions of votes for his opponents came from noncitizens.

But Trump took things a step further, denying Bartiromo’s suggestion that those groups would be the “real” problem on Election Day.

That honor, he said, went to the so-called “enemy within.”

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The Independent: Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day calling them 'the enemy from within' (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Sunday OP
and now we know their plan. Quiet Em Sunday #1
I think it's far more than that. The election was "rigged" because Democrats voted. There must be firing squads. BamaRefugee Sunday #2
Insurrection Redux, he promised a bloodbath bucolic_frolic Sunday #3
Been A Dick Donald is full of shit, MarineCombatEngineer Sunday #4
Blue states wouldn't stand for it. RJ_MacReady Sunday #5
He won't be able to do it if he's not president. intheflow Sunday #6
Another example of his fuzzy cognition: He imagines he's POTUS. nt allegorical oracle Monday #17
I don't know what's worse AZSkiffyGeek Sunday #7
Joe Biden is the President until January superpatriotman Sunday #8
"Biden... has full immunity for all Official acts." WestMichRad Sunday #9
Trump is not the President, MineralMan Sunday #10
Loser who is NOT in charge of the military spouts his hitlerian fantasies in public while the media normalizes. onecaliberal Sunday #11
For Pete's sake, he can't send the military anywhere, he's NOT the President! Who exactly does he think he is anyway! Jmb 4 Harris-Walz Sunday #12
He is daydreaming and is delirious, we know that he's mentally unstable, and a big fat loser to boot. SWBTATTReg Sunday #13
*HE* might not be able to call out the military, but he can send signals to Republican governors BamaRefugee Sunday #14
He's a confused bag of shit as usual. kairos12 Sunday #15
Maddowblog-Trump suggests using the military to address 'the enemy from within' LetMyPeopleVote Monday #16

Quiet Em

(538 posts)
1. and now we know their plan.
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 01:39 PM
Sunday

They are going to claim the election was "rigged" by falsely claiming non citizens have voted. That is what Musk has been pushing as well.

BamaRefugee

(3,685 posts)
2. I think it's far more than that. The election was "rigged" because Democrats voted. There must be firing squads.
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 01:47 PM
Sunday

bucolic_frolic

(46,297 posts)
3. Insurrection Redux, he promised a bloodbath
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 01:48 PM
Sunday

Do we have a plan to nip this in the bud? Or does it all fall on local constabulary forces.

MarineCombatEngineer

(14,269 posts)
4. Been A Dick Donald is full of shit,
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 01:49 PM
Sunday

he has no control over the military, and I highly doubt that the military would obey such an order as it would be an illegal order.

intheflow

(28,821 posts)
6. He won't be able to do it if he's not president.
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 01:53 PM
Sunday

I mean. He really thinks he, as a candidate that most of them have disavowed, can call up the joint chiefs and demand they do his bidding against citizens on election day? Why is the press even reporting on this impossibility?

AZSkiffyGeek

(12,449 posts)
7. I don't know what's worse
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 01:54 PM
Sunday

Trump saying he's going to send the military on election day, or the breathless reporting (and tweets from former FBI directors) that assumes he can.

superpatriotman

(6,490 posts)
8. Joe Biden is the President until January
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 01:58 PM
Sunday

And he has full immunity for all Official acts.

So go fuck yourself, you oozing, syphilitic chanchre.

WestMichRad

(1,657 posts)
9. "Biden... has full immunity for all Official acts."
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 02:17 PM
Sunday

Hah! I think if it ever gets that far, we would see this SCOTUS rule that most actions by Republican presidents are official acts, while most by Dem presidents are not. Not in those words, of course, but they would use different standards for evaluating what is and isn’t an official act.
Time will tell…

MineralMan

(147,231 posts)
10. Trump is not the President,
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 02:18 PM
Sunday

and only the President can give orders to the military. So, that's not going to happen. Joe Biden is President, and he will not be doing that.

Trump should never be President again. So, he won't be able to send the military anyfuckingwhere.

onecaliberal

(35,369 posts)
11. Loser who is NOT in charge of the military spouts his hitlerian fantasies in public while the media normalizes.
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 02:20 PM
Sunday

Jmb 4 Harris-Walz

(578 posts)
12. For Pete's sake, he can't send the military anywhere, he's NOT the President! Who exactly does he think he is anyway!
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 02:23 PM
Sunday

SWBTATTReg

(23,891 posts)
13. He is daydreaming and is delirious, we know that he's mentally unstable, and a big fat loser to boot.
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 02:51 PM
Sunday

He can rant and rave all he wants, and if he continues to threaten voters and such, shouldn't Garland do something about it?

Garland hasn't done crap for a while, and I fully don't expect to either. On the side of the law, he should be out there in full force, standing firm and strong on a daily basis to stand up for the rule of law, instead of hiding in his offices, letting djt continue mouthing off the nonsense that he's spewing out.

I am, for once, firmly of the belief that Garland should be replaced immediately. He's not standing out there, taking the potshots as one who in the driver's seat at the Justice department should be. Do something, for goodness sakes, Garland.

BamaRefugee

(3,685 posts)
14. *HE* might not be able to call out the military, but he can send signals to Republican governors
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 04:50 PM
Sunday

To call out their National Guard.
Who knows what could happen after that.

All they need is someone like, oh let’s say MTG, who already gained experience planting explosives on Jan5, to just let a few go off at polling places, and the game is afoot.

Obviously the only people in a red state who would possibly do such a thing would be Democrats, and it would be crucial to terminate them with extreme prejudice before they can proclaim their innocence.

LetMyPeopleVote

(153,244 posts)
16. Maddowblog-Trump suggests using the military to address 'the enemy from within'
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 05:09 PM
Monday

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



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.”



.....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.
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