Mark Cuban says Trump campaign like 'new season of The Sopranos'
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban likened former President Trump's campaign rhetoric to a new season of "The Sopranos" in an interview Friday.
Cuban, who rallied with Vice President Harris earlier in the day, appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday evening alongside MSNBC's Joe Scarborough. The panelists were discussing Trump's recent threats to use the military against his political opponents.
"It’s a new season of The Sopranos," Cuban said. "It’s crazy. I mean, it really is."
Scarborough knocked the former president for suggesting he could use the National Guard or others on Election Day to combat what he described as potential chaos from "the enemy from within." That group, Trump said, includes the "radical left lunatics."
“I think the bigger problem are the people from within,” Trump said at the time. “We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics.”
“And I think it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen,” he added.
In Friday's panel, Scarborough and host Bill Maher also criticized the GOP presidential nominee for what he's labeled as "Trump Derangement Syndrome" — which the former president has also accused Maher of suffering from. The men said it's "not deranged" to fear Trump's rhetoric.
"But people and you know, you tell people this and they go, 'He didn’t say that.' You show them the clip and then they go, 'He doesn’t mean that,'" Scarborough said.
"And that’s when they say you have Trump derangement syndrome," Maher replied. "And I would just like to say to my Republican friends, it’s not deranged to fear this! It’s not deranged to find this alarming!"
With just a few weeks left in the race, Trump has upped the intensity of his rhetoric, even blasting his domestic rivals as "scum." His comments about deploying the military on his political enemies has worried more than just Democrats, putting some down ballot Republicans on defense.
The Hill has contacted the Trump campaign for comment.
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