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Trump Escalates Threats as Campaign Enters Dark Final Stretch
The New York Times ^
| Oct. 26, 2024, 5:05 p.m. ET
| Lisa Lerer and Jess Bidgood
Posted on 10/26/2024 7:39:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A campaign marked by Donald J. Trump’s apocalyptic extremes has turned even darker in its final days.
With voting already underway in battleground states, the former president on Friday escalated his threats to prosecute and imprison a wide range of people involved in elections and politics. Hours later, on the hugely popular “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, he said that the “enemy within,” a phrase he has used to describe political opponents, poses a bigger threat to the nation than North Korea.
For eight years, Democrats have warned that Mr. Trump’s political ambitions have fueled some of the nation’s deepest divides. But in his third presidential bid, those worries have metastasized into fear that another term for Mr. Trump would threaten the founding principles of the Republic. As the campaign comes to a close, a series of people who know him well, including top military leaders and high-ranking former officials from his administration, have warned that Mr. Trump, who has sought to project his victory as all but assured, would rule as a dictator if given the chance.
Republicans say such concerns are overblown. But Vice President Kamala Harris has intensified her own alarms about Mr. Trump, switching the joyful tenor of the early days of her campaign to stark warnings that he would govern as an authoritarian and curtail what she casts as core American freedoms — like a woman’s right to terminate a life-threatening pregnancy. There are also hints that Mr. Trump’s dark promises are affecting the political choices of business leaders and media outlets owned by them.
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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: 5thestate5thcolumn; babykillers; enemieslist; enemyjournalists; enemywithin; epluribusrino; gaslightmediastooges; jessbidgood; lisalerer; nevertrumpingtroll; newyorkslimes; nyt; nytinsurrection; nytprojection; nytsedition
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
10/26/2024 8:27:36 PM PDT
by
Regulator
(It's fraud, Jim)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It’s like, how much darker could it be? And the answer is none, none more dark.
-Spinal Tap
Ready for a bit of the old ultra-darkness.
-A Clockwork Orange
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Seeing what happened when Trump was HOUNDED BY THE PHONY LAW ENFORCEMENT OF THE BIDEN DOJ, KAMALA MUST HAVE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO HER TO BE ATTACKED AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT MARTYR.
DIDN’T WORK, NOT THE SAME, POOR KAMMIE IS PATHETIC.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The lib/leftists fear Justice and the rope.
24
posted on
10/26/2024 8:55:17 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
MUSK NEEDS TO STEP UP & BUY THE NYT-—
IT CANNOT HAPPEN SOON ENOUGH
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posted on
10/26/2024 8:56:31 PM PDT
by
ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
To: Nervous Tick
It’s simply nauseating.
I hope heart doctors all take weeks long vacations after the election when Trump wins :)
26
posted on
10/26/2024 8:58:21 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
North Korea, Russia, China & Iran pose NO threat to Americans.
Demonic Democrats (and many elected Republicans) pose total threat to our survival.
To: oldplayer
Trump will arrange political asasination attempts on his political rivals.
oh wait......
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Anyone gets this liberal rag keeping count of how many Trump attack articles per day?
The seem to be over the top.
Something has them spooked bad.
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posted on
10/26/2024 9:44:35 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It’s a damn shame the far left DemonRATS are making “the final stretch” such a Dark Place for President Trump to have fight his way through but DemonRATS are evil and a man gotta do what a man gotta do.
30
posted on
10/26/2024 9:53:29 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Funny how the media handed the ball off to treasonous RINOs to carry Harris across the goal line)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
He’s going to kill us all if he wins! Run for your life! Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot...they were pikers compared to Trump! The most evil man who ever lived! Heaven help us!
/sarc
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posted on
10/26/2024 10:02:39 PM PDT
by
Deo volente
("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
To: Nervous Tick
I guess the NY Times thinks we care if Trump wants to go after the corrupt criminals that went after him. We don’t care. Trump has every right to go after the criminals who lied and cheated trying to put Trump in jail. I support him 100% no matter what he decides.
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posted on
10/26/2024 10:28:20 PM PDT
by
Rdct29
(The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Donald J. Trump’s apocalyptic extremes
Do you people listen to yourselves at all? Commiela and Hitlery have been spouting bs smears for over a week now and Trump is the danger?
It is true: that which they accuse others of doing are what they do.
I am disgusted. Every Dumblecrat politician is scum. Every voter who votes for them is irredeemably stupid.
33
posted on
10/27/2024 2:21:16 AM PDT
by
Adder
(End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I don’t know what campaign these people are covering.
34
posted on
10/27/2024 3:42:21 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
To: Nervous Tick
It’s worse than projecting, they believe this tripe. They don’t see their actions as justified, why wouldn’t you if you actually believe that Trump is hitler reincarnated.
I believe it was Seinfeld episode “it’s not a lie if you believe it”
The last screed from Mika shows just how deranged they all are
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posted on
10/27/2024 4:44:58 AM PDT
by
blitz128
To: Nervous Tick
36
posted on
10/27/2024 6:43:29 AM PDT
by
Pearfect
(Ou can't beat the competition lock-)
To: Nervous Tick
Always remember This...NYT
Fully 1/2 of the US population has an IQ or are mentally at or below average!
Let that sink in... “at or below average”.
Also, it appears, that many, MANY, almost ALL of those ‘at or below average’ are democRats!
And that is who read the NYT now!
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posted on
10/27/2024 7:10:24 AM PDT
by
Big Bill in TN
(Army Vet.here. I know how to fix stupid, but it will hurt!)
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