Democrats Accuse President Trump of Doing What They Just Did
Michael T. Flynn, LTG, US Army (RET)
October 28, 2024
The Democrats and their media buddies are working to create hysteria over President Trump’s comment that the Biden/Harris Administration might need to call out the National Guard to ensure a peaceful transition should he win. This is the most glaring incident of hypocrisy in perhaps the most hypocritical Democratic presidential campaign ever. And it had a purpose. It is a desperate attempt to deflect criticism as the American people are learning that late last month the Biden/Harris administration has acted to weaponize the military to use against Americans. The effort to make Trump look militaristic could be described as projection, or deflection, but it was neither honest nor accurate.
On Sunday, October 13, Maria Bartiromo asked President Trump about President Joe Biden’s threat that Election Day won’t be peaceful. The Fox News host first referenced “outside agitators ... 50,000 Chinese nationals in this country ... people on the terrorist watch list ... [and] 13,000 [illegal immigrant] murderers,” and then asked about a Trump victory: “What are you expecting? Joe Biden said he doesn’t think it's going to be a peaceful Election Day.” President Trump replied:
I think the bigger problem [than providing a peaceful Election Day] is the enemy from within — not even the people that have come in and destroyed our country.... But I don’t think they’re the problem in terms of Election Day. I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think ... it should be very easily handled by — if necessary, by [the] National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.
Within hours, the leftist media went into a frenzy.
$ CNN published a story with the headline “Trump suggests using military against ‘enemy from within’ on Election Day,”
$ The government’s own propaganda service, PBS News, headlined an AP article claiming: “Trump suggests he’ll use the military on ‘the enemy from within.’”
$ Newsweek asserted Trump “suggested that an ‘enemy from within’ could threaten Election Day security [and] ‘if necessary’ the National Guard or military may have to intervene.”
That Newsweek article included a response from Ian Sams, a spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign:
Donald Trump is suggesting that his fellow Americans are worse ‘enemies’ than foreign adversaries, and he is saying he would use the military against them....
The mainstream press tried to make the assassination attempt against President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania a one-day story, but this story “had legs.” The next day, the attacks intensified, with each story raising the rhetoric:
$ Vanity Fair claimed “Trump Wants the Military Used Against Americans Who Don’t Support Him on Election Day.”
$ MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show posted that “Trump suggests using the military to address ‘the enemy from within.’”
$ The Guardian accused Trump of “calling for army to handle enemies on election day.”
$ The Hill’s headline read “Trump’s threat to deploy military against ‘radical left.’”
The New York Times came totally unhinged, saying that Trump “openly suggested turning the military on Americans simply because they oppose his candidacy.”
These people really think that the intensity of their rhetoric can make us so fearful we will stop thinking, but let’s think this through. If President Trump wins the November 5 election, who would be President for all of November and December, and most of January? Well, that’s the Democrats’ own Joe Biden and his sidekick Kamala Harris. Trump’s statement “they can’t let that happen” clearly meant that the Biden administration would have a responsibility not to let its Radical Leftist supporters disrupt an election result because they didn’t like its outcome. What could President-elect Trump order the military to do? Exactly nothing! So, anyone with half a brain could see that President Trump was not threatening to deploy the military against anyone.
However, there is a threat here, but it is coming from Biden/Harris and their Defense Secretary, not from President Trump. And this threat is what the hysterical Democrat/media is trying to deflect attention away from. Here is what Biden/Harris don’t want you to know about.
On September 27, barely five weeks before the election, and just as the GOP-controlled House was leaving session to go home and campaign, the Biden/Harris Defense Department released its newly updated DoD Directive 5204.01. The language of the Directive is chilling. While it bans “assassination” by the military, it overtly authorizes lethal force, against Americans. It authorizes the military to provide:
Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force.... It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated.
Bobby Kennedy explained the move: “Under this directive, it will become legal for the U.S. military to shoot and kill Americans who engage in political protest because they disagree with policies in the White House.” Kennedy destroyed the Biden/Harris camp for their dishonesty and hypocrisy in trying to blame Trump for supposedly planning to do what they had already authorized. “This did not come from Donald Trump. It came from the Democratic Party, and that’s why I left the Democratic Party,” he said.
Former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) wrote, “Police State Update — Will We See U.S. troops, On U.S. Soil, Using Lethal Force Against Americans?” He warned the directive is “very, very dangerous.”
As these Biden/Harris Administration preparations to use the military on Americans are being exposed, it is little wonder that they, along with other Democrat candidates and their media enablers, are accusing President Trump of doing what they have already done.
This is the 2024 Democrat playbook to stoke fear in the voters. While that may work with those who Rush Limbaugh once called “low information voters,” it won’t work with most Americans now that we’ve been lied to by these people for too many years. We’re not buying anything they’re selling.
As they get closer and closer to the election, and the Democrats get more and more panicked at the prospect of losing the election, we should expect more of this. I would not be surprised if we see a Harris television ad like the famous “Daisy Ad” — with a little girl, a flower, and a mushroom cloud — the same way the Democrats tried to make people afraid of Barry Goldwater in 1964.
The real “threats to democracy” are already in power. And Americans must vote in droves, while they still can, to end this menace that threatens us all.