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Newsweek -  A retired major general has warned that Donald Trump could use the National Guard as "his own personal police force," following the former president's comments about potentially using the military in a domestic scenario. Trump has spoken about what he calls the "enemies from within" multiple times during campaigning this year, including on Sunday, when he told Fox News that these "sick people" who are "radical left lunatics" should "be handled" by the National Guard.

The next day, during a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris played a clip of Trump making the comments, along with several similar ones. During CNN's coverage, Laura Coates interviewed Ret. Major General Randy Manner, who has endorsed Harris for president.

"If (Trump) was to be the commander-in-chief again, everything changes – the Supreme Court has given him immunity," Manner said. "And the threshold for turning the National Guard into his personal police force is quite low."

Manner went on: "As long as (Trump) has a consenting governor, he can authorize the funds to pay them as the commander-in-chief. And he can use the National Guard, almost in any way that he wants. And most Americans don't know how very easy it would be for an unhinged president to use the military against our own citizens."

When asked whether the military would comply with such an order, Manner pointed out that the country's president is responsible for promoting officers in the military—although they have to be approved by the Senate.

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Political Wire - “With just weeks left in the 2024 presidential contest, Donald Trump already has plans in place to aggressively challenge the election results if he fails to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris,” Rolling Stone reports. “According to four conservative attorneys and other sources who’ve spoken to the former president on this matter, Trump intends to declare — as soon as on Election Night — that the race is being ‘rigged’ or ‘stolen’ from him, by pointing to slow vote-counts of mail-in ballots in crucial battleground states as his evidence for supposed Democratic shenanigans afoot.”