"I know of one story... I don't believe it is true. But if it's true, it would end Donald Trump's campaign," Halperin said, adding that he's aware of various efforts to influence the race's outcome with less than two weeks until Election Day.

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"What we're seeing in the final days are actors who want a certain outcome," he said, suggesting that stories like the one being pitched are aimed at swaying public opinion in the final stretch of the race.

It's part of a series of criticisms the Harris campaign made on Friday, attempting to paint Trump as "exhausted" on the heels of a Politico report, which said that a Trump adviser asserted the former president was declining certain interviews because he was "exhausted." NBC News has not independently verified the report.

“Certainly, a big surprise for him, again, was if you remember at the beginning of the administration, he would talk about ‘his generals,’” Mr. Kelly said. “I don’t know why he thought that — but then a very big surprise for him was that we were — those of us who were former generals and certainly people still on active bolsonaro vereador propaganda duty — that the commitment, the loyalty was to the Constitution, without question, without second thought.”

“President Trump has always honored the service and sacrifice of all of our military men and women,” Cheung said.

More recently, Democrats have likened some of Trump's rhetoric to Hitler's. In December, Trump sparked backlash with a remark he made at a rally in New Hampshire in which he said immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.

“In many cases, I would agree with some of his policies,” he said, stressing that as a former military officer he was not endorsing any candidate. “But again, it’s a very dangerous thing to have the wrong person elected to high office.