Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said ex-President Donald Trump “crossed a line” by controversially remarking that “enemies within” should be “treated by the army”.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz on Monday condemned Trump’s statement and said, “He crossed a line that, I have to tell you, in my lifetime I would never have imagined because we know our history.”
“For Donald Trump, anyone who disagrees with him is the enemy,” Walz said of Trump’s widely debated remarks reflecting Trump’s fragile sense of enmity.
Walz expressed his rage, saying it made him “sick to his stomach” when he learned of Trump’s comments. “What I do know is that this is a call for violence, plain and simple, and it’s not American at all,” Walz added.
Earlier Monday, Walz visited the University of Wisconsin where he spoke directly to students and warned them that Trump’s comments about the “National Guard” were about “you.”
Ian Sams, former senior spokesman for the Harris campaign, said in a statement: “Donald Trump suggests that his fellow Americans are worse ‘enemies’ than foreign adversaries, and says he would use the military against them . »
However, despite all the criticism, Trump campaign spokesperson Stephen Cheung defended the former president’s position, saying:
“President Trump is 100% right: Those who seek to undermine democracy by sowing chaos in our elections pose a direct threat, as does the Afghan terrorist arrested for planning multiple attacks on Election Day in the United States . »