USA 2024: – 17, Trump plans to use the army against the ‘enemy within’.

The idea of using the National Guard or the army to fight ‘the enemy from within’, if there are riots after the 5 November elections, put forward by Donald Trump on numerous occasions and endorsed by his deputy JD Vance, raises alarm and attracts criticism from the Democratic side. ‘The enemy from within’, for Trump, are the “lunatic extremists of the radical left”.

The Republican candidate for the White House speculates that a victory for him could be challenged, even violently, by his opponents. Almost a paradox, given that it was he who, on 6 January 2021, stirred up his supporters to storm the Capitol in Washington to induce Congress to overturn the outcome of the vote.

Vance makes the idea his own: ‘Of course’, he says, it is justifiable to use the National Guard and the army ‘if rioting or looting breaks out’. In an analysis, the New York Times notes that, even in the wake of these statements, Democrats are less reluctant to openly call Trump a ‘fascist’. Vice-President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are harshly critical. Trump – Harris repeats, in different circumstances – ‘considers those who are not with him to be enemies of the country. He calls them ‘the enemy from within’. And he wants to use the military against them. We know who he will go after: journalists, election officials, judges. That is why a second term in office for him would be dangerous: he who tramples on our values and violates the Constitution cannot be president, he is unstable, unbalanced and in search of uncontrolled power…’.

Biden, for his part, while attending election events accuses Trump of wanting to ‘please Putin more than Americans’ and of having ‘racist’ rhetoric: ‘He has the same ideas about race as in the 1930s. As for the trials, ‘he ran so he wouldn’t go to jail…’. A Trump sortie yesterday seems to prove Biden right: in a podcast, he said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ‘should never have let the war with Russia begin’. The conflict broke out on 24 February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. Trump has not denied that he has maintained contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving the White House and has said in recent days that ‘Russia has never had such a respected president’.

President Biden, on the other hand, considers it normal for Harris to say that ‘she will do things differently’ than he would if elected to the White House: ‘Every president has to chart his own course… I did that myself: I was loyal to Barack Obama, but once I was president, I charted my own course… And so will Kamala, who has been loyal so far…’

Trump in New York, millionaire event

Donald Trump will campaign and fundraise in his city, New York, in what will be a ‘special evening’ at Madison Square Garden. The Republican candidate will be in the world’s most famous arena on 27 October: a VIP ticket costs almost a million dollars, 924,600 precise. Newsweek reports this, citing a post on X by New York Times journalist Teddy Schleifer. Newsweek finds the tycoon’s decision to hold a rally in New York City, where he lived until 2019 before moving to Florida, peculiar in light of the most recent polls, according to which Harris has almost 54% of the vote in the metropolis against less than 40% for Trump. There have also been numerous anti-Trump protests in the Big Apple in recent years, and he has been convicted in civil and criminal cases here.

Michelle for Kamala, ‘go vote’

Former first lady Michelle Obama will urge young people, blacks and those who have never gone to the polls to vote,

participating in Atlanta, Georgia, on 29 October at an event organised by ‘When We All Vote’, her civic engagement group founded in 2018 to mobilise people distant from politics and elections to vote.

Former Fox News star Geraldo Rivera backs Kamala Harris, calling her ‘former friend’ Donald Trump ‘a person who can’t lose’. The former conservative network host accuses the mogul on X of spreading a ‘big lie’ about the 2020 election: ‘Trump, he can’t be trusted to honour the Constitution. That’s why I’m voting for Harris…’.

The independent commission that analysed the mistakes made by the Secret Service during the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump on 13 July in Butler, Pennsylvania, denounces shortcomings in the organisation of the service and suggests replacing the command structure with people from the private sector.