A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid Harry Mason ReidThe Supreme Court vacancy — yet another congressional food fight Trump seeks to turn around campaign with Supreme Court fight On The Trail: Battle over Ginsburg replacement threatens to break Senate MORE (D-Nev.) said Sunday that all Americans should fear President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE's threats of legal action against his critics.

“It only took five days for President-elect Trump to try to silence his critics with the threat of legal action. This should shock and concern all Americans," Reid's deputy chief of staff, Adam Jentleson, said in a statement.

Damning statement from Harry Reid's spokesman, after Trump aide hints at legal action against Reid for criticizing Trump pic.twitter.com/DMyT3SUPW7 — Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) November 13, 2016

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“Trump has always used threats and intimidation to silence his critics. Now he wants to silence a discussion of the acts of hate and threats of violence being committed in his name across the country. Silencing this discussion normalizes hate and intimates the victims," Jentleson added.

On Friday, Reid criticized Trump, calling him "a sexual predator who lost the popular vote."

Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, told "Fox News Sunday" that Reid's comments were "beyond the pale."

"And he should be very careful about characterizing somebody in a legal sense. He thinks he's just being some kind of political pundit there, but i would say be very careful about the way you characterize it," Conway said.

Conway denied that she was suggesting Trump would sue the outgoing Senate minority leader over the comments, but said she hoped President Obama would tell Reid to halt the attacks.

"I'm calling for responsibility and maturity and decency for somebody who has held one of the highest positions in our government in a country of more than 300 million people," she said. "I hope President Obama calls Harry Reid today and says 'cut it out.'"

In the statement, Jentleson slammed Trump for having the support of the Ku Klux Klan, arguing that the white supremacist group views "Trump as their champion."

“But instead of rising to the responsibility of his office, Trump is hiding behind his Twitter account and sending his staff on TV to threaten his critics," Reid's spokesman said.