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Former President Donald Trump doubled down on his “enemy within” rhetoric during his highly anticipated sit-down this Friday with podcaster Joe Rogan.

This time he argued that the “enemy within” — meaning, presumably, the fascists in the United States who want to overturn the U.S. Constitution — are a greater threat to the United States than even North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

“We had no problem with him,” he said of the North Korean leader. “I say it to people, we have a bigger problem, in my opinion, with the enemy from within.”

“It drives them crazy when I use that term,” he continued, referring to the deranged left. “We have an enemy from within, we have people that are really bad people, that I really think want to make this country unsuccessful.”

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Trump’s previous “enemy within” rhetoric has triggered paranoid delusions from leftists convinced that he intends to lock them up in a prison camp if he wins the election next month.

The deep irony is that his “enemy within” rhetoric is virtually indistinguishable from the left’s rhetoric about him. If anything, it’s actually less heated, since the left likes to, one, call him Hitler, and two, call for his literal arrest.

Plus, as recently noted by Rep. Byron Donalds to leftist CNN stooge Jim Acosta, Trump has never called for action — like locking up these “enemies” — but only raised concerns about said “enemies,” like, for instance, former House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff.

“He said he was concerned,” Donalds said. “He said that, yes, you have somebody like Adam Schiff who would use his position as chairman of the Intel Committee, who has access to information that even members of Congress don’t have access to, and to leak that into the press. Remember what Adam Schiff did in 2016; he was laundering phony intelligence into our political system. He did that in 2016, 2017, 2018. That is very dangerous in my view.”

“It’s very dangerous to use your position as the chairman of intel to launder phony information into the body politic, saying that Donald Trump was a Russian plant. We all know that was a lie. It was a blatant lie. But Adam Schiff did that. You should have him on your program and ask him about it,” he added.

Donalds also stressed in his remarks to Acosta that, unlike the Biden-Harris administration, the Trump administration never weaponized the Department of Justice and prosecuted its ideological enemies.

“When he was president of the United States, did he weaponize the Justice Department against his political rivals?” he asked rhetorically. “No, he did not. When he was president of the United States, did he order the National Guard or Secret Service or the U.S. military to go after his, quote, unquote, ‘rivals.’ No, he did not.”

Dovetailing back to Trump’s Rogan interview, a couple additional soundbites have also gone viral.

For example, Trump at one point stressed that he seeks to “do” things because they’re right, not because they’ll make him popular.

“I do things that don’t necessarily make me so popular,” he said. “I just do what’s right. I understand what I’m doing. You make yourself a target, and it’s a very dangerous business. I never thought of that when I did it.”

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Trump also said that the barely failed assassination attempt on him in Butler months ago made him tougher.

“It zicked right there,” he said of the infamous shot that hit his right ear. “It’s not like some of the wrestlers, some of the UFC fighters… it was sort of like a top shot. The thing’s taken off a little bit, but it makes me a tougher guy.”

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