JD Vance Attempts To Whitewash Donald Trump’s 'Enemy Within' Threat

The Republican vice presidential nominee got fact-checked by CNN host Jake Tapper.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance insisted that Donald Trump’s threats to send the military after “the enemy within” were not directed at Democrats but rather “far-left people who commit acts of violence,” gliding over the GOP presidential nominee’s own words on the topic.

“Donald Trump never said Americans writ large. You keep on putting words in his mouth,” Vance said in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Jake Tapper.

“He’s said publicly that he wants to use the military to go after the enemy within, which is the American people,” Tapper replied.

Trump has made no efforts to qualify his “enemy within” comments. Earlier this month, he told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that “the bigger problem is the enemy from within” when asked if the American public should be worried about potential violence from “outside agitators” on Election Day.

“We have some very bad people, we have some sick people, radical left lunatics,” Trump told Bartiromo. “And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”