‘I think the bigger problem are the people from within, we have some very bad people, sick people, radical left lunatics,’ Republican candidate tells Fox’s Maria Bartiromo

‘I think the bigger problem are the people from within, we have some very bad people, sick people, radical left lunatics,’ Republican candidate tells Fox’s Maria Bartiromo

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“And it should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military,” he said.

“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within. Not even the people who have come in, who are destroying our country.”

It isn’t clear under what circumstances Trump would view it justifiable to call in US troops against his own countrymen.

But his comments mark a baseless attack and a particularly hollow one coming from someone whose supporters violently attacked the US Capitol in an attempt to stop him from being thrown out of office three years ago.

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
    416·
    2 months ago

    Trump being a lunatic doesn’t automatically make the Democratic party the good guys. We don’t live in a Marvel movie.

    • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      2 months ago

      Do you live in such a nuance-less world that you automatically assume that if someone is saying that Trump is exponentially worse than Harris- what they really mean is that Harris is the epitome of all things good and can do no wrong?

      You should maybe look into fixing that.

      And marvel movies are hot garbage. So, I’d never compare anything even capable of being somewhat mediocre with them.

      • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
        29·
        2 months ago

        No, but I look at people espousing right-wing beliefs such as yourself and think of how far the Democratic party has fallen and why they struggle to compete against someone like Trump. It’s like you’re in a race with MAGA supporters to see who can destroy the country first.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          72·
          2 months ago

          No, but I look at people espousing right-wing beliefs such as yourself

          Maybe I don’t know how to read… Where did this person espouse right-wing beliefs? I consider myself pretty far to the left, and everything they said is correct and reasonable.

        • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          2 months ago

          ROFL…. I’m espousing right wing belief now?

          Is everyone that disagrees with you right wing?

          • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
            22·
            2 months ago

            Supporting genocide, calling those who don’t support genocide “the radical left”, calling for the US to back out of places like Ukraine for a few examples. All right wing rhetoric and beliefs.

            I also noticed you and this other guy prole always seem to follow each other around on lemmy and reply to each other’s comments with similar rhetoric. Kinda funny how that works…

            • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              And I noticed that you like to make false accusations of people you know nothing about. Is it accurate to assume that every far left outraged idealist is you? Because you seem to show up a lot where they’re being called out. And your single example is surely enough to base an accusation on.

              it’s funny how you jumped on the one thing you believed you could build a strawman out of- I never said anything about Ukraine. In case you’re not aware, America recently sent troops to Israel to help with defense against Iran. I was talking about that-

              Most people would have extrapolated this.