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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough slammed Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin Tuesday for attempting to downplay Donald Trump’s comments about using the military against his political opponents.
The former president spoke in a Fox News interview Sunday about potentially using the National Guard or the military to deal with “the enemy from within”—a group which Trump characterized as “sick people, radical left lunatics”—when asked about his expectations for Election Day. In an interview with CNN the day after, Youngkin insisted Trump wasn’t really saying what he appeared to be saying.
CNN’s Jake Tapper pointed out that Trump later specifically named Adam Schiff as one of the “lunatics”—as a congressman, Schiff led the first impeachment trial of Trump. Tapper became visibly frustrated as Youngkin continued to claim Trump was not talking about his political enemies, accusing Tapper of “misinterpreting and misrepresenting” the Republican nominee’s words.
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