Washington –
The language sounds like something out of an authoritarian state or the American anti-communist purges of the 1950s, but Donald Trump is increasingly focused on one target: “the enemy within.”
The 77-year-old Republican has stepped up his rhetoric against a host of domestic opponents in recent months and appears set to go even further following his historic conviction in a criminal trial that he claims — without evidence — was orchestrated by his political rival. , President Joe Biden.
That has raised fears of a forthright crackdown on anything the former president sees as dissent if he wins a second term in the White House, which he has promised will focus on “retaliation.”
