Enemy from Within - Not McCarthy But Trump

[DaisyDay]

Was the Joseph McCarthy era of investigating fellow Americans for disloyalty when America was great? He gave a speech codifying his vision of America as being infested with disloyal politics. "Enemies from Within": Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Accusations of Disloyalty

In an interview aired Sunday on Fox News Channel, Trump was asked about the potential of “outside agitators” disrupting Election Day and he then pivoted to what he called “the enemy from within.”

“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within,” Trump said. He added: “We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the big — and it 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.”

Trump has repeatedly invoked the phrase “enemy from within” in recent speeches. On Saturday, he used it to refer to Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a prominent Trump critic who oversaw the congressional investigation that led to Trump’s first impeachment. Schiff is now running for the Senate.​

Have we ever had a more divisive president? Forget his frauds, his sexual assaults, his felonies - the threat to use the military, after replacing commanders with Maga loyalists, on US citizens is truly Banana Republic rhetoric.

 

[Vambram]

If people in America are rioting and breaking the law with riotous protests as we have seen in 2024 and 2020, then it may be necessary to use the National Guard as we have done in the past. I was deployed in Missouri when the Ferguson riots happened in 2014. That is the kind of stuff that Trump is talking about. Using the National Guard in a way that the liberals are fearing that the Trump might do is simply illegal and it is impossible to occur in the manner that the progressive liberal media is pushing with their fear tactics. I really wish that the progressive liberal media and progressive liberal politicians would get a grip in reality.

 

[Belk]

If people in America are rioting and breaking the law with riotous protests as we have seen in 2024 and 2020, then it may be necessary to use the National Guard as we have done in the past. I was deployed in Missouri when the Ferguson riots happened in 2014. That is the kind of stuff that Trump is talking about. Using the National Guard in a way that the liberals are fearing that the Trump might do is simply illegal and it is impossible to occur in the manner that the progressive liberal media is pushing with their fear tactics. I really wish that the progressive liberal media and progressive liberal politicians would get a grip in reality.

Where did Trump specify this?

 

[Vambram]

Where did Trump specify this?

It is in the context of the speech. Please stop cherry picking Trump's words out of context.

 

[Belk]

It is in the context of the speech. Please stop cherry picking Trump's words out of context.

Do you have a quote of the relevant section? My research shows this to be in response to a question about politicians limiting him and references Adam Schiff specifically.

 

[rambot]

If people in America are rioting and breaking the law with riotous protests as we have seen in 2024 and 2020, then it may be necessary to use the National Guard as we have done in the past. I was deployed in Missouri when the Ferguson riots happened in 2014. That is the kind of stuff that Trump is talking about. Using the National Guard in a way that the liberals are fearing that the Trump might do is simply illegal and it is impossible to occur in the manner that the progressive liberal media is pushing with their fear tactics. I really wish that the progressive liberal media and progressive liberal politicians would get a grip in reality.

Yes...and I recall 80-90% of charges levied against those rioters are getting dropped because there wasn't evidence they were actually doing anything wrong.

 

[Always in His Presence]

Do you have a quote of the relevant section? My research shows this to be in response to a question about politicians limiting him and references Adam Schiff specifically.

Isn't Adam Schiff the one who stood on the steps of the Supreme Court on National TV threatening specific justices that they would reap the whirlwind - and their homes were surrounded by angry mobs afterwards - that Adam Schiff?

 

[Vambram]

Yes...and I recall 80-90% of charges levied against those rioters are getting dropped because there wasn't evidence they were actually doing anything wrong.

Which incidents and rioters are you referring to?

 

[Vambram]

Isn't Adam Schiff the one who stood on the steps of the Supreme Court on National TV threatening specific justices that they would reap the whirlwind - and their homes were surrounded by angry mobs afterwards - that Adam Schiff?

I remember that it was Senator Chuck Schumer who said and did that. However, IMO, Congressman Adam Schiff is just as deplorable as is Senator Schumer.

 

[Always in His Presence]

I remember that it was Senator Chuck Schumer who said and did that. However, IMO, Congressman Adam Schiff is just as deplorable as is Senator Schumer.

Thanks -

 

[Belk]

Isn't Adam Schiff the one who stood on the steps of the Supreme Court on National TV threatening specific justices that they would reap the whirlwind - and their homes were surrounded by angry mobs afterwards - that Adam Schiff?

For someone who complains so much about about "whatabotism" you sure do engage in it as lot.

 

[KCfromNC]

Isn't Adam Schiff the one who stood on the steps of the Supreme Court on National TV threatening specific justices that they would reap the whirlwind - and their homes were surrounded by angry mobs afterwards - that Adam Schiff?

If it was one would think the responsible thing to do would be to present actual quotes of such a thing rather than innuendo.

 

[ViaCrucis]

Isn't Adam Schiff the one who stood on the steps of the Supreme Court on National TV threatening specific justices that they would reap the whirlwind - and their homes were surrounded by angry mobs afterwards - that Adam Schiff?

Should the US military be used against Adam Schiff and others who say things Donald Trump doesn't like?

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Always in His Presence]

Should the US military be used against Adam Schiff and others who say things Donald Trump doesn't like?

-CryptoLutheran

No

But Capitol police or some authority should have a conversation with Schumer for threatening justices for doing something he didn’t like

 

[ViaCrucis]

No

But Capitol police or some authority should have a conversation with Schumer for threatening justices for doing something he didn’t like

Would you say that a politician who says things that incite people to act violently should be held criminally liable?

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Always in His Presence]

Would you say that a politician who says things that incite people to act violently should be held criminally liable?

-CryptoLutheran

Like go peacefully?

Or you will reap the whirlwind?

 

[ViaCrucis]

Like go peacefully?

Or you will reap the whirlwind?

I'm thinking more like "If you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore"

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Always in His Presence]

I'm thinking more like "If you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore"

-CryptoLutheran

Oh like Biden saying to beat the hell out of them?

Something about people who live in glass houses.

There is no innocent person on either side.

 

[ViaCrucis]

Oh like Biden saying to beat the hell out of them?

Something about people who live in glass houses.

There is no innocent person on either side.

Then apply the same standard equally.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[essentialsaltes]

Donald Trump was criticized Sunday for referring to Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, both California Democrats, as examples of the “enemy from within.”

For the third time in a week, former president Donald Trump repeated his charge that Democrats allied against him are “the enemy from within” in an interview with Fox News during which he called the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “a beautiful thing.”

“There was a beauty to it and a love to it that I’ve never seen before,” he said.

“You call Americans who don’t support you ‘the enemy within.’ That’s a pretty ominous phrase to use about other Americans,” [Fox News interviewer Howard] Kurtz noted.

“I think that’s accurate,” Trump replied, before referencing Pelosi and Schiff, two outspoken Trump critics.

“These are bad people. We have a lot of bad people,” the former president said. “But when you look at shifty Schiff and some of the others, yeah, they are to me the enemy from within. I think Nancy Pelosi is an enemy from within.”