‘Dictator’ Trump Condemned After Threatening To Jail Opponents | EUROtoday
The Kamala Harris marketing campaign has warned Donald Trump will “rule like a dictator” if reelected after the GOP presidential nominee stated he would jail these “involved in unscrupulous behavior” throughout this yr’s election.
Just days earlier than his presidential debate with Harris, Trump went on his Truth Social web site Saturday to proceed his makes an attempt to undermine the integrity of this yr’s vote, having beforehand averted questions on whether or not he’d settle for the outcomes of November’s election.
In his posts, Trump baselessly accused Democrats of “rampant Cheating and Skullduggery” through the 2020 contest and warned the 2024 race “will be under the closest professional scrutiny.”
“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” Trump wrote.
“Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials,” he added. “Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”
On Monday, Harris-Walz marketing campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa responded to Trump’s feedback.
“As we head into the debate, an extreme and unhinged Donald Trump is further ratcheting up his dangerous threats of revenge and retribution,” Moussa stated in an announcement.
“Aided by his Supreme Court justices that gave him virtually unlimited immunity, and his Project 2025 allies who wrote the playbook to give Trump virtually limitless, unchecked power, Trump is openly laying out how he will try to rule as a dictator on day one to go after his political enemies.”
“Another thing is clear: For Donald Trump, it’s all about himself,” the assertion continued, including that Trump was on a “self-obsessed revenge tour.”
Even earlier than a vote has been counted, Trump has repeatedly tried to sow doubt concerning the outcomes later this yr, successfully working the identical playbook that adopted his 2020 election defeat to President Joe Biden, the place he insisted voter fraud marred the end result.
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In actuality, dozens of courts, Republican state officers and his personal administration have stated he misplaced pretty. Trump himself final week acknowledged he misplaced “by a whisker.”
Revenge has been an indicator of his 2024 marketing campaign.
“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution,” he stated on the Conservative Political Action Conference in March final yr at the beginning of his newest bid for the White House, in keeping with The Guardian.
Trump has additionally admitted he plans to behave like a “dictator” if reelected — however solely on “day one” of a brand new administration.
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