Despite attempts from allies to defend the former president’s comments, Donald Trump has doubled down on describing former speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrat Adam Schiff as “enemies from within”.
“These are bad people. We have a lot of bad people,” he tells Fox News’ MediaBuzz. “But when you look at shifty Schiff and some of the others, yeah, they are to me the enemy from within. I think Nancy Pelosi is an enemy from within.”
Trump allies have been scrambling for over a week to defend him, saying his remarks had been misinterpreted. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Sunday insisted the former president was referring to “marauding gangs” rather than his predecessor and the California senator.
Schiff dismissed his comments on X, while Pelosi’s spokesman Ian Krager said in a statement Trump was “showing himself to be increasingly unhinged and unstable”.
Source:bbc.com
