Trump Escalates Threats to Political Opponents He Deems the 'Enemy'

Source: New York Times


By Lisa Lerer and Michael Gold

With three weeks left before Election Day, former President Donald J. Trump is pushing to the forefront of his campaign a menacing political threat: that he would use the power of the presidency to crush those who disagree with him.

In a Fox News interview on Sunday, Mr. Trump framed Democrats as a pernicious “enemy from within” that would cause chaos on Election Day that he speculated the National Guard might need to handle.

A day later, he closed his remarks to a crowd at what was billed as a town hall in Pennsylvania with a stark message about his political opponents.

“They are so bad and frankly, they’re evil,” Mr. Trump said. “They’re evil. What they’ve done, they’ve weaponized, they’ve weaponized our elections. They’ve done things that nobody thought was even possible.”

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It should be noted that the The New York Times had to be forced to finally cover Trump's violent threats against us by Kamala Harris, who has been noting Trump's talk of violence against Americans at her rallies and during the Fox News interview with Bret Baier.

This may have been covered before in LBN, but I think the breaking news here is that the Times is finally covering it.