Bill Clinton jokes about Trump 'enemy from within' remarks: 'I want him to transfer me to Guantánamo'
Former President Clinton joked about former President Trump’s "enemy from within" comments, while at a rally with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in Durham, N.C., Thursday.
“I suppose that includes me,” Clinton said. “The oath says you promise to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And he said, ‘I think I'll start with domestic.’”
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Trump suggested using American armed forces to combat what he described as potential chaos from “the enemy from within,” including “radical left lunatics.” He doubled down on these comments in an interview this week.
“These people — they’re so sick, and they’re so evil. If they would spend their time trying to make America great again, it would be so easy to make this country great,” Trump said in the follow-up interview. “I’m not threatening anybody. They’re the ones doing the threatening. They do phony investigations.”
Vice President Harris condemned these comments, playing them at a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday.
In North Carolina, Clinton also referenced the Supreme Court decision that grants former presidents broad immunity.
“I’m not going to execute him, although I could under the Supreme Court ruling,” Clinton said of Trump. “I think I’ll just send him to Colorado Supermax for the rest of his life.”
He went on to joke that if Trump sent him to prison, he’d prefer a different location.
“I want him to transfer me to Guantánamo,” he said. “Because when you're 78, you're a lot more worried about it being too cold than being too hot.”
Clinton has been stumping for the Harris-Walz campaign in recent days, making an appearance Sunday in Georgia, a state that hadn’t gone blue before 2020 since Clinton won it in 1992.
Democrats haven’t won North Carolina since former President Obama’s run in 2008, but Trump barely won the Tar Heel state over President Biden in 2000, winning by about 75,000 votes.
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