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

[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.

[Nervous Tick]

>> A campaign marked by Donald J. Trump’s apocalyptic extremes has turned even darker in its final days.

Project we much, NYT?

[simpson96]

Projection.... as usual.

[Responsibility2nd]

The only threats Trump is escalating are those made by liberals.

And that’s just one reason they hate him so much.

[Alas Babylon!]

[TigersEye]

I already voted for him but I appreciate the NYT’s endorsement of Trump. :)

[reasonisfaith]

No, not liberals. The cabal.

It’s the cabal threatening us. Liberals are simply mind controlled by them.

[Williams]

Has he started calling everyone Hitler?

[Mark]

NY Times escalates bulls**t.

[oldplayer]

DJT will bring 30-year old allegations to ruin his political opponents. He will have FBI trail parents as the terrorists they are. He will have agents lie on sealed and secret search warrant affidavits. He will jail dissenters on felony trespassing charges. Praying grandmothers will be locked up! He will censor his opponents. He will have gag orders issued. He will sue and try to ruin corporations that supported his opponents. Cats and dogs will lie down together.

It will be horrible.

[Ge0ffrey]

Dark? These people are mentally ill.

[mewzilla]

Dark MAGA is really getting under Deep State’s skin.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/watch-dark-maga-trump-reps-the-undertakers-iconic-theme-song-at-michigan-rally/articleshow/114617131.cms

[thegagline]

The New York Times under the leadership of the self hating Jew Arthur Sulzberger covered up the Holocaust.
The paper was and is a piece of irredeemable garbage.

[mewzilla]

I never followed WWE, so for anyone else in need of some backround...

https://youtu.be/8dcY9LDdRIk?feature=shared

The Undertaker’s entrance video.

[Bob434]

oh gee- the left are afraid Trump might try to bring them to court- how sad- but i guess we should just forget that for 8 years now, they have been trying to IMPRISON him for life, and ruin his life because he tried to clean out the swamp!

[central_va]

Mr. Trump would threaten the founding principles of the Republic

Did the NYT use the "R" word?

[ransomnote]

Shakespeare in the Park Show Features Stabbing of Trump Look-Alike

Performances at Central Park's Delacorte Theater began in late May, just days before comedian Kathy Griffin came under fire over a photo of her holding a severed head resembling the president

By Verena Dobnik • Published June 8, 2017 • Updated on June 9, 2017 at 6:15 am

[clearcarbon]

"Trump Escalates Threats as Campaign Enters Dark Final Stretch"

[rickomatic]

I love the smell of Democrat panic in the morning....

[dragnet2]