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riversedge

(73,100 posts)
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 06:06 AM Saturday

From Liz Cheney to Jack Smith to Mark Milley, Trump has a lengthy inventory of people he's pledged to punish.



Trump promised to get revenge. Here are his targets.

From Liz Cheney to Jack Smith to Mark Milley, Trump has a lengthy inventory of people he’s pledged to punish
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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/06/trump-retribution-enemy-list-00187725


Donald Trump ran a campaign based on retribution. Now he is perfectly positioned to carry it out.

For years, Trump has peppered his speeches and social media posts with vengeful calls for his political opponents, his critics and members of the media to be prosecuted, locked up, deported and even executed. In the waning weeks of the 2024 campaign, he escalated those promises of retaliation to a fever pitch.

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Members of the Jan. 6 select committee

While singling out Cheney for particular scorn, Trump has also blasted the other eight members of the Jan. 6 committee and repeatedly urged that they face criminal charges. “The Unselect Committee of political Hacks & Thugs has been totally discredited,” Trump wrote on Truth Social last year. “They should be tried for Fraud and Treason, and those imprisoned and being persecuted should be exonerated and released, NOW!”
Unspecified people engaged in election fraud

Despite few examples of verified election fraud, Trump has threatened severe criminal consequences for anyone who engages in such behavior, and he’s muddied the waters by suggesting such tampering went on during the 2020 race — and was bound to occur in 2024, too.


“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” Trump said on Truth Social in September. “Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”


POLITICO reporters, editors and publisher


Trump has also called for stern measures — including imprisonment — for journalists who refuse to identify their sources. He specifically seized on POLITICO’s exclusive report in May 2022 about a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court announced in January 2023 that an investigation it conducted had failed to conclusively identify any individuals who disclosed the draft, but Trump has told his supporters that more aggressive tactics could quickly ascertain the source.......................
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From Liz Cheney to Jack Smith to Mark Milley, Trump has a lengthy inventory of people he's pledged to punish. (Original Post) riversedge Saturday OP
Think he was ever spanked??? elleng Saturday #1
Only by Stormy. tetedur Saturday #3
Sounds like he will be going after himself if the crime is election fraud. tetedur Saturday #2

tetedur

(1,078 posts)
2. Sounds like he will be going after himself if the crime is election fraud.
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 06:17 AM
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He might prosecute some of the Supreme Court justices if the crime is leaking a draft opinion. Who knows? Maybe he could waterboard Alito and find out who leaked.

As for the Select Committee crimes, they are going to have to retroactively pass some new laws to prosecute them. Okay, we'll wait and see. Procede sir.

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