There is an open clash between the two presidential tickets over the use of military force suggested by Donald Trump against possible riots on election day on November 5thafter Joe Biden confided that he is “not at all sure” that there will be a peaceful transfer of power.
The proposal, launched in an interview with Fox News, caused discussion not only for the idea of using the army against civilians but also for the fact that Trump claimed that the internal enemies, identified as the “madmen of the radical left », are «more dangerous than China, Russia and all those countries». In his blacklist the tycoon pointed the finger in particular at the former deputy and now Democratic senator candidate Adam Schiff, guilty of having evoked the collusion of his campaign with Russia and censured for this by the Republican majority House. It is not the first time that Trump has thought of the army against street protests: as president he wanted to mobilize it to face the demonstrations that had set the country on fire after the killing of the African American George Floyd at the hands of the police. In apparent difficulty after the end of her honeymoon with voters, in trouble with blacks and Latinos, and now also accused of plagiarism for one of her 2009 books, Kamala went on the offensive and attacked her opponent, calling him “unstable”, “unbalanced” and looking for “uncontrolled power”. “Look at his rallies. Listen to his words. He tells us what he would do if he were elected president.” Pennsylvania, making the public listen to an audio of the tycoon’s proposal, Trump accused, «he considers everyone who is not with him to be enemies of the country. He has called them enemies from within. And he has said that he will use them against them We know who he will blame: journalists, electoral officials and judges. This is why I believe that his second term would be dangerous.”
Shortly before Harris spoke, his running mate had come down even harder, saying that the idea that a president could use troops against Americans made him “nauseous.” And recalling a judgment from the former head of state Joint Major Mark Milley, according to whom Trump is a “fascist to the core”, as reported in Bob Woodward’s new book ‘War’. The former president, who flew to the swing state of Georgia where early in-person voting begins, did not back down, while his deputy JD Vance defended him: «It is a justifiable use if they are rioting, looting and burning cities until they razed to the ground.” Harris, who landed in Detroit in the crucial Michigan, reinforced the attacks on her rival’s psychophysical health also with irony. “I hope he’s okay,” he wrote on A reference to the surreal town hall last night in Pennsylvania where, after two participants fell ill, the tycoon stopped answering questions from the public and asked his staff to play the campaign playlist, starting to dance and sing on stage for over half an hour. The video of the former president shaking his fists to the rhythm of ‘Ymcà by the Village People or swinging to a song by Elvis Presley has already gone viral on social media. The Donald felt the need to justify the extravagance by explaining on Truth that «the questions and answers were almost over when people started to faint from the excitement and the heat. We started listening to music while we waited (for her to be rescued, ed.) and we continued to do so. It was so different, but in the end it was a great night!