A senior military leader told lawmakers that he had not been given orders to target “the enemy within,” a reference to language President Donald Trump used earlier this year.

Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander of U.S. Northern Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee he has “not been tasked to do anything” against whom Trump described in a late September address to senior military officers as “the enemy within.”

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