Posted on 10/16/2024 8:09:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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 an 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.”
And on Tuesday, he once again refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power when pressed by an interviewer at an economic forum in Chicago.
With early voting underway in key battlegrounds, the race for the White House is moving toward Election Day in an extraordinary and sobering fashion. Mr. Trump has long flirted with, if not openly endorsed, anti-democratic tendencies with his continued refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election, embrace of conspiracy theories of large-scale voter fraud and accusations that the justice system is being weaponized against him. He has praised leaders including President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary for being authoritarian strongmen.
But never before has a presidential nominee — let alone a former president — openly suggested turning the military on American citizens simply because they oppose his candidacy. As he escalates his threats of political retribution, Mr. Trump is offering voters the choice of a very different, and far less...
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More Projection from the Commies.
TDS on display ad nauseum. The nyt has been having a field day with this. Just wait to see how he gets treated after 11/5-11/6 when he wins.
Yeah, I hear he’s going to go after the legacy media and put them all on Alcatraz 😱
More Fake News from the Queen of Fake News, the reprehensible New York Times.
I guess the New York Times doesn’t have a way to recall what happened during COVID in cities around the country. The “mostly peaceful” protests. You think all those people are going to be cool with a Trump presidency, after every left-wing person with a microphone in their face describes the danger of Trump? A threat to democracy? Isn’t that something people would be motivated to stop? By any means necessary?
They see Harris crashing and they’re panicking.
Just so we are clear on this. Satan gets offended when he is labeled as evil?
The left cracks me up with their collective amnesia about his first 4 years in the Whitehouse.
If he was gonna do all this crap they are accusing him of planning to do, they wouldn’t be around now to write about it.
I hope Milley and Cheney are at the top of his list.
Hey, NY Times, there’s a very simple formula: If you’ve broken a he law you can be prosecuted.
Unbelievable, isn’t it?
TEN DREADFUL YEARS of persecution, lies about “Russia,” bogus “Steele Dossier” paid for by DNC and Clinton, the fake Mueller investigation, three bogus impeachments, 34 false charges and phony “convictions,” two (maybe three) assassination attempts, endless yells about “Exterminate Trump, we must get rid of Trump,” perpetual screams about “He is Hitler, he is a threat to democracy.” The 2020 riots over St. George the Fentynal. Lies about his inciting “insurrection.” Fake Congressional J6 hearings. Now threats the Dems won’t seat him if he wins.
My God, there’s never been anything like it in the history of the Republic. And THEY are worried about a little push-back? In a just world, all of them would be worried about being lined up and blindfolded at dawn.
They know what’s coming.
And they know that it is well deserved.
Oh, the vapors!!
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that he would use the power of the presidency to crush those who disagree with him.
“In an 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.“
When Trump said this was he bathed in blood red light, gesticulating exactly like Adolph Hitler and with Marines flanking the set?
Because when Joe Biden called me a terrorists and threat to democracy and freedom …
Projection — it’s what’s for breakfast (and lunch and dinner) for leftscum, which of course includes the New York Slimes.
I am already voting for him, you don’t have to give me more reasons.
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