Donald Trump issued a grim election threat to “radical” leftists on Sunday, saying he could back US military force against Americans he described as the “enemy within” if they disrupted voting on next month.

“I think the biggest problem is the enemy within, not even the people who came in and destroyed our country,” Trump said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” referring to the American citizens as opposed to the migrants he criticizes for flooding into the country. the country.

“We have some very bad people, we have some sick, radical left crazy people. And I think it’s them – and it should be very easily handled, if necessary, by the National Guard or, if it’s really necessary, by the military National Guard,” Trump said. “Because they can’t let this happen.”

The former Republican president was responding to a question about what he hoped would happen on Election Day, after President Joe Biden said last week that while he thought the vote would be free and fair, he didn’t know not “whether it will be peaceful.”

Trump claimed in his remarks that his fellow Americans are “more dangerous than China, Russia and all those countries.”

The campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s Democratic rival in the presidential race, quickly pushed back on the Republican’s extraordinary remarks.

“I know people have become desensitized to Trump over the last decade, but this should come as a shock” to Americans, said Ian Sams, a Harris campaign spokesman.

“Donald Trump is implying that his fellow Americans are worse ‘enemies’ than foreign adversaries, and he says he would use the military against them,” Sams said.

“Considered by the Supreme Court’s decision to grant immunity to presidents (for their official actions as commander in chief), and by Trump’s vow to be a ‘dictator from day one,’ ready to allowing the ‘termination’ of the Constitution…Scary stuff,” he added on social media platform X.

Trump alleged widespread fraud following his loss to Biden in 2020 and continues to repeat the baseless and widely debunked claim that he did not lose.

Pro-Trump rioters, angered by his false claims, ransacked the U.S. Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021 in a vain attempt to prevent the certification of the election.

After two failed assassination attempts on Trump in as many months, the Republican reportedly requested the use of a military plane in the final weeks of the campaign.

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