In response to Donald Trump’s closing message of threats of violence and unhinged attacks against his fellow Americans, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: 

“Donald Trump’s closing message is doubling down on revenge and retribution, attacking his political opponents as the ‘enemy from within,’ and threatening violence against American citizens – including just last night when he suggested that former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney should have ‘nine barrels shooting at her’ and guns ‘trained on her face.’ The people who know Trump best know that this is who Trump is – and that he’s completely unfit to lead. In just a few short days, the American people will make it clear they feel the same.”

TRUMP-VANCE TICKET’S CLOSING MESSAGE: dangerous, violent rhetoric and attacks on American citizens:

• Donald Trump said that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney should have guns “trained on her face” and be fired upon, which the Congresswoman said was akin to a death threat.
  
  
• Trump threatened to weaponize the National Guard and military against American citizens to destroy the “enemy from within.”
  
  
• JD Vance attempted to lie and cover for Trump’s “enemy from within” comments, before confirming he does “agree with” Trump and attacking American citizens as a bigger threat than any “foreign adversary.”

• Vance said “of course” Trump’s plan to put American citizens before a war tribunal doesn’t sound “fascistic” to him.

• Vance repeatedly dismissed reports of John Kelly calling Trump a “fascist” and revealing Trump’s praise for Hitler’s generals, saying people should “shut the hell up about what happened four years ago.”