Donald Trump has long openly admired the world's dictators and three weeks before the US presidential election he's taking a page from the authoritarian playbook with escalating threats against the "enemy from within."
One of Trump's hallmarks as president was his constant use of the phrase "enemy of the people" to describe the media -- or at least the media which didn't paint him in a good light.
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