New York [US], October 15: In an interview with Fox News on October 14 regarding the question of potential chaos in the election, Mr. Trump called for the military or the National Guard to be deployed to deal with the "enemy within" when election day takes place.
The Republican candidate singled out Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who served as the lead prosecutor in the first impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump, saying he was a greater threat to free and fair elections than foreign terrorists and illegal immigrants.
"I think the bigger problem is the people from within the country. We have some very bad people, some sick people. It's very easy to take care of them with the National Guard if we need to, or the military if we really need to," Trump said after suggesting that the chaos in the election would not come from him.
"I think the harder problem is the crazy people in our country like Adam Schiff... In California, you don't have anything like a voting booth. They take the ballots and just send them all over the place. They come back and say 'oh, somebody won by 5 million votes,'" Mr. Trump said, referring to Mr. Schiff's election fraud.
In response, Mr Schiff accused Mr Trump of inciting a mob to attack the US Capitol building in 2021 "and now he is inciting violence against those who oppose him", according to The Guardian.
Ian Sams, a spokesman for Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign, went further in his condemnation of the suggestion that the Republican candidate would become a "dictator" once elected. "Donald Trump is suggesting that the American people are a worse enemy than foreign adversaries, and he is saying that he would use the military against them," Sams said.
The spokesman said Mr Trump had also called for the "end of the constitution" and planned to appoint "sycophants" to give him unprecedented and unchecked power. "What Donald Trump is promising is dangerous, and returning him to office is simply a risk the American people cannot afford," Mr Sams warned.
Source: Thanh Nien Newspaper