Trump calls Schiff and Pelosi enemies from within

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Donald Trump has called Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi enemies within, even as the former president's Republican allies try to argue that his previous comments calling political opponents such are being misconstrued.

They are bad people. We have a lot of bad people. But when you look at Shifty Schiff and some of the others, yes, they are, to me, the enemy within, Trump said in an interview on Fox News MediaBuzz that aired Sunday.

Fox News Howard Kurtz gave Trump the opportunity to clarify that he is a political opponent of yours, but is he an enemy? to which Trump responded: Of course, he's an enemy, he's an enemy.

Trump also called Pelosi the enemy from within, falsely claiming that the then-Speaker of the House of Representatives had the opportunity to protect the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

I think Nancy Pelosi is an enemy from within, he said. She was supposed to protect the Capitol. He also falsely claimed that he had offered him 10,000 National Guardsmen and that the California Democrat did not accept them.

The former president's claims about January 6 are false, CNN previously reported. The Speaker of the House is not responsible for Capitol security, which is the responsibility of the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the U.S. Capitol Police and approves requests for assistance from the National Guard.

Trump's former acting Defense Secretary, Chris Miller, also told lawmakers that Trump never gave him a formal order to have 10,000 troops ready to be sent to the Capitol on January 6. There was no direct order, there was no order from the president, Miller said. .

Trump, in a separate interview on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures last week, suggested using the military to deal with what he called the enemy within on Election Day. I think the biggest problem is the enemy within, not even the people who came to destroy our country.

We have very bad people. We have sick people. Crazy about the radical left, Trump told host Maria Bartiromo in this interview, later adding that I think this should be very easily handled, if necessary, by the National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military , because they can't let this happen.

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign relied on Trump's remarks by using the former president's own words and those of his former aides to portray him as dangerous and unstable. Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have highlighted the enemy within in their comments at rallies across the country, and the campaign released a new ad featuring the former's remarks president.

Since then, the former president's Republican allies have sought to argue that Trump was not actually talking about his political opponents and that his statement had been misinterpreted.

Earlier Sunday, for example, House Speaker Mike Johnson initially claimed the former president was referring to criminal or transnational gangs.

What he's talking about is marauding gangs, Johnson told Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union, when asked about Trump's suggestion of using the military against the enemy within.

But when Tapper countered, saying Trump was referring to Democrats like Schiff, Johnson said Trump wasn't talking about using the military against political opponents.

I didn't hear President Trump in this clip saying he was going to go after the military against Adam Schiff. That's not what he says. You have two different clips in two different contexts, Johnson said.

The Louisiana Republican later added: It's not Jake, no, it's not. No. He talks about using the National Guard and the military to keep the peace on our streets.

And Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin told Tapper last week: I guess what I just want to say very clearly is that I believe what former President Trump is talking about is the people who cross the border, who, in fact, are committing crimes, smuggling drugs, trafficking human beings and turning every state into a border state.

Tapper emphasized that Trump was not talking about migrants, but rather the radical left. Tapper also referenced Trump specifically naming Schiff later in last week's interview, with the former president saying that while he can handle foreign adversaries, what's harder to deal with are these crazy people that we have inside like Adam Schiff who is a real sleaze, who is going to be a senator. But I call it the enemy within.

This story and its headline have been updated with additional reporting.

CNN's Priscilla Alvarez, Eric Bradner, Ali Main, Daniel Dale and Zachary B. Wolf contributed to this report.

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