It was a revealing moment for Donald Trump.
“When I say ‘the enemy from within,’ the other side goes crazy,” he said Sunday.
He’s right about that. I raised the subject in our Trump Tower interview last weekend, saying that phrase seemed ominous, and his response – that Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff are indeed enemies, not just opponents, was picked up across the media universe.
But driving the other side nuts is a Trump specialty. When he told the rally at Madison Square Garden that the media are “the real enemy, the enemy of the people,” there were loud cheers from a party that already despises and distrusts the press.
A slight digression: The argument that Trump shouldn’t have been at the Gardenbecause the Nazis held a rally there in 1939 is ludicrous. FDR held an event there two …