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In response to JD Vance defending Donald Trump\u2019s attacks on Americans he called \u201cthe enemy from within\u201d as \u201ctotally reasonable,\u201d <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump chose JD Vance as his running mate because he will do what Trump\u2019s last VP wouldn\u2019t \u2013 throw the American people and our democracy under the bus at Trump\u2019s whim. Trump\u2019s alarming and vile attacks against American citizens are indefensible, and voters are not falling for Vance\u2019s pathetic spin to cover for Trump\u2019s unhinged rants about sending the military after his political opponents. The American people know there is nothing ‘totally reasonable\u2019 about threatening your fellow Americans and calling them \u2018the enemy from within\u2019 \u2013 and they\u2019ll make that clear to Vance and Trump in November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: JD Vance defended Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cenemy from within\u201d comments as \u201ctotally reasonable.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill Hemmer, Fox News<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve read all of it, I\u2019ve listened to all of it, it\u2019s hard for me to know what he really means about it. But, that\u2019s not my question. My question is, why is it necessary?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance: \u201cWell, Bill, first of all, Donald Trump is unfiltered […] When people ask him questions, he speaks from the heart.\u201d […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hemmer: \u201cIn this case\u2013 he mentioned Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi by name, in this case over the weekend.\u201d<\/strong> […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance: \u201cI think it\u2019s totally reasonable<\/strong> for the president to point out that yes, we\u2019ve got the strongest country in the world, but we do have some broken leaders in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has threatened to weaponize the National Guard and military against American citizens to destroy the \u201cenemy from within.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI think the bigger problem is the enemy from within\u2026 totally destroying our country<\/strong>\u2026 [I]n terms of Election Day, I think the bigger problem are the people from within. <\/strong>We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they\u2019re the big \u2013 and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by [the] National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can\u2019t let that happen.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, Trump again said January 6 \u201cwas actually a beautiful thing,\u201d and doubled down on calling Americans \u201cthe enemy within.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howard Kurtz, Fox News<\/a>: \u201cJanuary 6, the other day you called it \u2018a day of love,\u2019 that sparked a lot of reaction given that many police officers were attacked and there were mobs shouting \u2018hang Mike Pence.\u2019 Can you understand why many Americans can view it as a dark and tragic day in our history?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump: \u201cThe crowd I spoke before, which you rarely see. I have pictures of it, massive but nobody wants to put it in. It was the biggest crowd I\u2019ve ever spoken to and I\u2019ve spoken to the biggest crowds. I\u2019ve never seen that many people. A small group of them. And, you know, peacefully and patriotically, which nobody uses my words with peacefully and patriotically. A small group went down to the Capitol, but they came, they came because they thought it was a rigged election. This was a protest against a rigged election. And I can\u2019t say exactly the number, but I\u2019ve had massive crowds, and this was by far the biggest crowd \u2014 I\u2019ve spoken to the crowd at the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial, on the Fourth of July, this crowd was bigger. And I\u2019ll tell you, there was a beauty to it and there was a love to it that I\u2019ve never seen before […] A small group of people went down to the Capitol, and then a lot of strange things happened […] I\u2019m saying that when I saw that tremendous crowd, the largest group I\u2019ve ever spoken to, in front of these beautiful monuments. I thought it was actually a beautiful thing.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurtz<\/a>: \u201cI want to drill down on this question of retribution against your political opponents, because you\u2019ve had opportunities to walk that back. And my question is this: are you prepared to say now that you will not use law enforcement to punish or prosecute your political opponents?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump: \u201cExcuse me, that’s what they\u2019re using on me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurtz: \u201cYou talk about the enemy within. There\u2019s America\u2019s enemies outside, \u2018the enemy within\u2019 is a pretty ominous phrase if you\u2019re talking about other Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump: \u201cI think it\u2019s accurate. I mean, I think it\u2019s accurate.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurtz: \u201cWho are you talking about because the enemy \u2013\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump: \u201cBut what they\u2019ve done is so terrible. Who\u2019s ever heard of anything like this? Adam shifty Schiff. He\u2019s a crooked guy. He\u2019s a crooked politician. 100% he\u2019s going to be a senator now, can you believe it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurtz: \u201cBut again, he\u2019s a political opponent of yours, is he the enemy?\u201d

Trump: \u201cNo, he\u2019s a well, he\u2019s, of course, he\u2019s an enemy. He\u2019s an enemy [\u2026] These are bad people. We have a lot of bad people, 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.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to JD Vance defending Donald Trump\u2019s attacks on Americans he called \u201cthe enemy from within\u201d as \u201ctotally reasonable,\u201d DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cDonald Trump chose JD Vance as his running mate because he will do what Trump\u2019s last VP wouldn\u2019t \u2013 throw the American people and our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJD Vance: \u201cTotally Reasonable\u201d for Trump to Attack American Citizens as \u201cEnemy From Within\u201d - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/jd-vance-totally-reasonable-for-trump-to-attack-american-citizens-as-enemy-from-within\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-21T19:39:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-21T19:39:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/jd-vance-totally-reasonable-for-trump-to-attack-american-citizens-as-enemy-from-within\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/jd-vance-totally-reasonable-for-trump-to-attack-american-citizens-as-enemy-from-within\/\",\"name\":\"JD Vance: \u201cTotally Reasonable\u201d for Trump to Attack American Citizens as \u201cEnemy From Within\u201d - 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