A look into Trump's recent rhetoric focusing on revenge and threats
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🗓️ 21 October 2024
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So, could he act upon those threats if reelected?
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| 0:00.0 | We have the outside enemy and then we have the enemy from within and the enemy from within and the enemy from within in my opinion is more dangerous in China, Russia and all these countries because if you have a smart president he can handle them. |
| 0:15.4 | This is former President Trump talking to Fox's Maria Bartaromo in an interview earlier |
| 0:20.6 | this month. |
| 0:21.9 | The enemy from within is something that Trump talks a lot |
| 0:26.4 | about. He doubled down on his remarks a few days later in a Fox Town Hall. |
| 0:30.4 | And it is the enemy from within and they're very dangerous. |
| 0:34.5 | They're Marxist and communists and fascist and they're sick. |
| 0:38.4 | Trump has repeated those comments about the enemy from within several times on Fox News Sunday he specifically called |
| 0:45.5 | out Democrats in Congress like Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi. He's a bad people. We have a |
| 0:50.4 | lot of bad people but when you look at Shifty Shiff and some of the others, yeah, they are to me the enemy from within. |
| 0:57.5 | I think Nancy Pelosi is an enemy from within. |
| 1:00.0 | And Trump told Fox earlier that if these enemies disrupt election day, the military should step in. |
| 1:06.3 | And I think they're the, and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National |
| 1:12.0 | God or if really necessary by the military because they can't let that happen. |
| 1:17.0 | Consider this. Donald Trump has been running a campaign based on revenge and threats. |
| 1:23.0 | Legal experts say that if he follows through on those threats, |
| 1:27.0 | it could jeopardize the civil liberties of Americans. From NPR, I'm Elsie Chang. |
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