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Movies Crime Syndicate: Fears Grow Over TRUMPs DANGEROUS Threats to Political Foes

Frightening To Consider: Fears Grow Over TRUMPs Threats to Political Foes

Critics alarmed by talk of revenge against Democrats and say second Trump term would pose unprecedented danger


The Guardian 30 OCT 2024






Donald Trumps extremist attacks on top Democrats as the enemy from within and talk of deploying the military against political foes if he wins the election are stark signs Trump will endanger the rule of law in America, say former US justice department officials and scholars.



Trumps threats singling out ex-speaker Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and others as ?the enemy from within and more dangerous than China [and] Russia? jibe with his earlier incendiary talk of using a return to the White House to seek revenge against political foes led by Joe Biden. He also suggested the military could be used to quell violence at the polls from radical left lunatics

Those comments, along with Trumps adamant refusal to say clearly he will accept the election results if he is defeated, prompt critics to say Trump poses unprecedented dangers to the US constitution.

Alarm about a second Trump term were heightened this month when Trumps former chief of staff and former four-star marine general John Kelly condemned him in the Atlantic as unfit to govern and having said: I need to have the kind of generals that Hitler had.

Ex-justice department officials are appalled by Trumps demonizing his political foes as ?the enemy from within, words used by the demagogic senator Joe McCarthy, and ruminating about using the military against them to exact revenge.




Trumps anti-democratic, authoritarian rhetoric has been ratcheted up the closer we draw to the election, said Michael Bromwich, a former inspector general at the justice department.

Rather than keeping a covert enemies list, he publicly names his enemies against whom he vows to take action.



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