After Trump’s rally this weekend in Butler, PA, ‘Morning Joe’ host Joe Scarborough said the words of Trump signaled that the “increasingly desperate” Republican nominee was “preparing for civil war.”
At the rally, Trump claimed that political opponents have sought to stop him from a second term ‘by any means necessary,’ hinting darkly: “Maybe even” by assassination attempts.”
He boasted that Russia and China are outside enemies that can be handled by a “smart” president like him, but that ‘the left’ is “much more dangerous.”
Trump reiterated the falsehoods about an ‘enemy within,’ which he called more dangerous than ruthless foreign adversaries.
‘You know, I always say there’s an enemy from within and there’s an outside enemy. And if you’re smart, the outside enemy is not going to be a problem. Russia, and China and North Korea, we’re not going to have a problem if you have a smart president. But we have an enemy from within which, I think is much more dangerous than the outside enemy.’
“The level of un-American activity that you just saw is stunning,” the MSNBC personality said. “That is un-American. They know they’re lying. Donald Trump knows that’s a lie. He will tell you that the Secret Service, he thought, did the best job they could do. The fact that JD Vance and Trump’s family would out and out say what they said takes the threat of violence, takes the threat beyond where it was even leading up to January the 6th. This is an increasingly desperate person, an increasingly desperate family, who is preparing for civil war. They just are.”