Donald Trump Suggests Using Military to Stop ‘Radical Left’ on Election Day: ‘The Enemy from Within’

Mar. 15, 2025

Donald Trump.Photo:Spencer Platt/Getty

Spencer Platt/Getty

Former PresidentDonald Trumprecently made a suggestion that the military could be used to shut down “radical left lunatics.”

During an interview on Fox News’Sunday Morning Futureson Sunday, Oct. 13, Trump was asked about PresidentJoe Biden’s previous comment that he fears there could be chaos from MAGA supporters on Election Day.

Donald Trump.Bill Pugliano/Getty

Bill Pugliano/Getty

“The thing that’s tougher to handle are these lunatics that we have inside, like Adam Schiff,” he said later in the interview. He then called those people “more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries.”

House impeachment manager Adam Schiff, a Democratic congressman from California, on Jan. 22, 2020.AP/Shutterstock

In a statement shared withThe Hill, Harris’ senior campaign adviser and senior spokesperson Ian Sams said, “Donald Trump is suggesting that his fellow Americans are worse ‘enemies’ than foreign adversaries, and he is saying he would use the military against them.”

“Taken with his vow to be a dictator on ‘day one,’ calls for the ‘termination’ of the Constitution, and plans to surround himself with sycophants who will give him unchecked, unprecedented power if he returns to office, this should alarm every American who cares about their freedom and security,” Sams added. “What Donald Trump is promising is dangerous, and returning him to office is simply a risk Americans cannot afford.”

Donald Trump.Steven Ferdman/GC Images

Steven Ferdman/GC Images

Trump’s new remark about the “radical left” comes after a series of aggressive statements about how he will handle his adversaries if elected president.

When Fox News' Laura Ingraham recently asked him to confirm that he wouldn’t weaponize the justice system against his political enemies, he said that “a lot of people” want him to do just that.

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source: people.com