“Never before has a presidential nominee—let alone a former president—openly suggested turning the military on American citizens simply because they oppose his candidacy,” New York Times reporters Lisa Lerer and Michael Gold say in a “news analysis” published on Tuesday. They are referring to former President Donald Trump’s comments in a Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. Yet nowhere in that interview did Trump suggest that “the military” should be deployed against American citizens “simply because they oppose his candidacy.”
Bartiromo asked Trump whether he was “expecting chaos on Election Day” if “you win.” Elaborating on that possibility, she mentioned “outside agitators,” “50,000 Chinese nationals in this country,” “people on the terrorist watch list,” and “13,000 murderers”—alluding to the former president’s false claim about “convicted illegal alien murderers” who supposedly “are now on the loose.”
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