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I'm your host, Greg Sergeant. Over the weekend, J.D. Vance actually tried to argue that Donald Trump will not target his political enemies if he's

re-elected president. Amusingly enough that around the same time Trump was in the

process of confirming the opposite point, declaring flatly that he'll use the military to target the enemy within.

What's striking about all this is that Trump regularly says day after day, right in plain sight at his rallies that in a second term he

plans to target a whole range of enemies of MAGA and doesn't bother disguising

how grotesquely he plans to abuse presidential power to do so.

Politico reporter Maya Ward has written a great new piece looking unflinchingly

at what Trump has been saying at these rallies. So he invited her on to talk about how blatant

he's being about what his second-term intentions really are. Thanks for coming on,

Maya. Thanks for having me. Let's start with what Trump said on Fox News on Sunday.

Listen to this.

I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even the people that have come in and

destroying our country, by the way totally

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