{"id":114942,"date":"2024-10-16T22:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114942"},"modified":"2024-10-16T22:03:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T15:03:50","slug":"trump-doubles-down-on-calling-democrats-enemies-from-within-at-georgia-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114942","title":{"rendered":"Trump doubles down on calling Democrats &#8216;enemies from within&#8217; at Georgia town hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">CUMMING, Ga. \u2014 Former President Donald Trump doubled down Tuesday on his remarks over the weekend referring to Democrats as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/-enemy-trump-claims-democrats-are-dangerous-us-foreign-adversaries-rcna175198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enemy from within<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">During a taped town hall of all-women voters in Cumming, Georgia, with Fox News\u2019 Harris Faulkner, the host asked Trump about his \u201cenemy from within\u201d comment, which he made during the network\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning Futures\u201d this past weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">During that interview, Trump told host Maria Bartiromo that California Rep. Adam Schiff and other Democrats were \u201clunatics\u201d and a bigger threat to the U.S. than foreign adversaries like Russia or China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI always say, we have two enemies,\u201d Trump said, adding: \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He also suggested that the military could be called in to handle any unrest on Election Day from &#8220;radical left lunatics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Trump doubled down on those comments during his Tuesday night town hall, also calling Democrats \u201cevil\u201d and \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThey\u2019re Marxists and communists and fascists, and they\u2019re sick,\u201d Trump added.\u00a0\u201cWe have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries.\u00a0If you have a smart president, they can all be handled.\u00a0The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they\u2019re so sick and they\u2019re so evil,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The town hall airs at 11 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Vice President Kamala Harris has used Trump\u2019s comments against him this week, calling a second Trump term \u201cdangerous\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/kamala-harris-rallies-pennsylvania-bellwether-county-focuses-blue-wall-rcna175046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at a Pennsylvania rally<\/a> and releasing an ad titled \u201cEnemy Within.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Harris called Trump \u201cincreasingly unstable and unhinged,\u201d saying he plans to use the military against American citizens and is \u201cout for unchecked power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cA second Trump term is a huge risk for America,\u201d she told supporters in Erie, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/live-blog\/trump-harris-election-live-updates-rcna175179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Follow live updates on the 2024 election<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Faulkner gave Trump a chance to clarify his comments Tuesday at the town hall taping, asking him how he responded to Harris\u2019 claims that he was \u201cunhinged\u201d and \u201cout for unchecked power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Trump defended his comments, calling them \u201ca nice presentation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI wasn\u2019t unhinged,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He also doubled down on his claims about Schiff, who led the prosecution in his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-impeachment-inquiry\/closing-argument-democrats-say-not-removing-trump-would-render-him-n1128766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate impeachment trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI use a guy like Adam Schiff because they made up the Russia, Russia hoax,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt took two years to solve the problem. Absolutely nothing was done wrong, etc, etc. They\u2019re dangerous for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Asked to comment on Trump&#8217;s Tuesday remarks, a Schiff spokesman pointed <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchiff\/status\/1846195277700780178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to a pair of posts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchiff\/status\/1845668293937676402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on X<\/a> that the congressman in response to Trump&#8217;s Sunday interview. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Donald Trump is openly threatening to call in the military to suppress his political opponents,&#8221; one of the posts reads. &#8220;We must defeat him this November and never let him fulfill his dictatorial ambitions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">Representatives for Harris\u2019 campaign and Pelosi did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/trump-democrats-enemies-within-rcna175628\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CUMMING, Ga. \u2014 Former President Donald Trump doubled down Tuesday on his remarks over the weekend referring to Democrats as the \u201cenemy from within.\u201d During a taped town hall of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114942\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}