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Thu Sep 11, 2025, 12:47 AM Thursday

Liberals are criticizing conservatives because we're under direct attack from their President [View all]

...we can start with this vile accusation today that the Democratic party calling out this adjudicated rapist/convicted felon for his anti-democratic actions - like occupying Democratic-run cities with armed military forces - is somehow responsible for the killing today of his demagogic political ally.


"For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals," he said in a video message Wednesday night. "This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now."



Trump ran this same self-owning con when the republican boy mad at his Trump-supporting daddy shot and killed one of his supporters and made the president fall on his ear; accusing Democrats of motivating the conservative gun nut by the completely opposite effort to hold Trump accountable for his crimes and abuses of democracy.

But we all know this dictator-in-training has not only made outrageous, repeated claims, accusations, and insults directed at myriad Democrats, but has directly threatened individual Democratic leaders with the power and authority of his office using false and inflammatory rhetoric which belies any possibility he intends to act impartially.

There's been nothing from Trump's political opposition more threatening than his calling Democrats "the enemy within" for trying to hold him accountable for his treasonous acts...

In a Fox News interview, 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.

“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.”

Trump's comments echoed remarks he made at a rally in Coachella, California, on Saturday evening, where he called Schiff “shifty Schiff” and “the enemy from within.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/15/us/politics/trump-opponents-enemy-within.html


When asked about the upcoming election, Trump tried to tamp down fears — as expressed by President Joe Biden earlier this month — that chaos could again ensue like it did in 2020.

“No I don’t think so, not from the side that votes for Trump," the former president said, adding that any issues around the election wouldn't be because of outside agitators or foreign nations.

"I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within … We have some very bad people we have some sick people, radical left lunatics," he said.

Any unrest, Trump said, "should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary by the military, because they can’t let that happen."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/-enemy-trump-claims-democrats-are-dangerous-us-foreign-adversaries-rcna175198



At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”


At a Las Vegas rally on the eve of the Nevada caucuses, Donald Trump was heckled. The GOP front-runner said that in the "old days" such a protester would be “carried out on a stretcher.” Trump added, “I’d like to punch him in the face.”

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“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”
November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day before


“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”
February 1, 2016, at a rally in Iowa


“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”
October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporter


“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”
March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart News


Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murdered. “Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”
-June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House


“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”
October 22, 2022, during a Texas rally


“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”
November 7, 2022, during a rally in Ohio


September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executed
“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”
September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party convention


“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”
November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speech

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”
December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rally


“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”
March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if elected



“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)


“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”
June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. Phil


“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”
September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plans

C-SPAN
“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”
September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in Pennsylvania


“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”
October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview

“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”
October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall

“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”
October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hall

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former president Donald Trump escalated his attacks on prosecutors at a private luncheon here Saturday, referring to special counsel Jack Smith with an expletive and accusing Democrats of “running a Gestapo administration,” according to audio provided by a Republican donor.

He called Smith – who is prosecuting federal cases involving Trump’s handling of classified documents and his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol – a “[profanity].” He continued to mock another prosecutor, District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) of Georgia’s Fulton County, for her past relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade, calling her “Mrs. Wade” and “a real beauty.”

https://matzav.com/leaked-audio-trump-says-democrats-run-a-gestapo-administration/


CHICAGO (AP) — Donald Trump falsely suggested Kamala Harris had misled voters about her race as the former president appeared before the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago Wednesday in an interview that quickly turned hostile.



Trump appeared to be doubling down on this line of attack against Harris. He shared a post on Truth Social in which his ally Laura Loomer argued that because Harris’ birth certificate does not say the word “Black” — only that her father is Jamaican — the vice president therefore “is NOT black and never has been.” The former president also posted to the social media site a picture of a young Harris in a sari wearing a bindi.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/02/trump-harris-race-attacks-00172423


Trump’s message in Aurora, a city that has become a central part of his campaign speeches in the final stretch to Election Day, marks another example of how the former president has escalated his xenophobic and racist rhetoric against migrants and minority groups he says are genetically predisposed to commit crimes. The supposed threat migrants pose is the core part of the former president’s closing argument, as he promises his base that he’s the one who can save the country from a group of people he calls “animals,” “stone cold killers,” the “worst people,” and the “enemy from within.”

“Kamala [Harris] has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world … from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to prey upon innocent American citizens,” he said.

His rhetoric has veered more than ever into conspiracy theories and rumors, like when he amplified false claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating pets. And Trump has demonized minority groups and used increasingly dark, graphic imagery to talk about migrants in every one of his speeches since the Sept. 10 presidential debate, according to a POLITICO review of more than 20 campaign events. It’s a stark escalation over the last month of what some experts in political rhetoric, fascism, and immigration say is a strong echo of authoritarians and Nazi ideology.

“So immigrants are crime. Immigrants are anarchy. They’re taking their jobs, but now they’re also animals who are going to kill us or eat our pets or eat us,” she continued. “That’s how you get people to feel that whatever is done to them, as in mass deportation, rounding them up, putting them in camps, is OK.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/12/trump-racist-rhetoric-immigrants-00183537


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