The list of revenge targets for Donald Trump’s second term is extremely long
Something you’ve probably realized over the past eight years or so is Donald Trump obsessed with revenge on the people, places, and things he believes have wronged him. For example, during his first run for office, he spent a lot of time pensive about imprisonment Hillary Clinton, and in his most recent run for the White House, he repeatedly vowed to crush “enemy within.”
While the targets of Trump’s ire may have spent the past few months placating themselves with the notion that it would be unthinkable for voters to re-elect someone who spoke out about Trump’s plans to go after fellow Americans, yourself, but that’s clearly not how things shake out. went out last week. Instead, Trump advance to a second term in office. And now, that’s not the point if The incoming president will make good on his threat of revenge, but When and resist Who. “Will Trump retaliate?” Gwenda Blair, who wrote a biography of the Trump family, request New York Times. “Of course. The only question is how much will be widely assessed and how much will be targeted.” That makes reported fear of those in Trump’s sights is extremely understandable!
Who exactly has the right to sweat buckets — or more likely, throw bricks — at the very real possibility that Trump and/or his government allies will go after them? The long list includes:
- Special lawyer Jack Smith (Trump has said he should “kicked out of the country”)
- Joe Biden (Trump has vowed to appoint “A real special prosecutor to pursue”46th president and family)
- Kamala Harris (Trump has said she should “prosecuted for his actions” regarding borders)
- Barack Obama (Trump wants a 44th president tried by a “military court”)
- Former Republican Party representative Liz Cheney (Trump made a social media post calling her “commit treason” and argued that she should also be tried by a “military court,” and separately that she should have been The gun “was pointed at her face”)
- California Senator-elect Adam Schiff (Trump called the lawmaker “enemies from within,” and suggested the army should be used against him)
- Nancy Pelosi (Trump also called the former House Speaker “enemies from within” and called her “evil, sick, crazy,” and mumbled a word “begins with one b”)
- Overview Mark Milley (Trump suggested last year that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff retire should be implemented)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (Trump called on James prosecutedand one of his allies recently declared in an interview, “Listen, honey, this time we’re not messing around and we’re going to throw your fat ass in jail for plotting against rights”)
- Justice Arthur Engoron (Trump made similar calls to Engoron, who presided over James’s lawsuit against the former president, prosecutedand called him “corruption…political hacking”)
- Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg (yes, Trump also wants Bragg, who brought the money lawsuit against him, prosecuted)
- “Attorneys, Political Activists, Donors, Illegal Voters, and Corrupt Election Officials” regarding the 2020 election (Trump has called them on “long prison sentence”)
- Mark Zuckerberg (Trump said in the 2024 race “we are watching him closely” and threatened the Meta founder, saying he could “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he violates any law)
- Comcast (Trump has said the company that owns NBC News and MSNBC should under investigation for “treason”)
- ABC News (after the debate with Harris, Trump similarly claimed that the company should license revoked to check the truth)
- CBS News (Trump said the company should lost license because he doesn’t like editing one 60 minutes interview with Harris)
- Journalists (Trump has announced the imprisonment of reporters who did not disclose sources on stories he believed related to national security and “joked” that the threat of prison rape would cause them to reveal such information)
- “A sinister cabal of deep state bureaucrats, Silicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists and corrupt corporate news media” (whom Trump claims includes a “ left-wing censorship” and that as president he would “order the Department of Justice to investigate” them and “vigorously prosecute all identified criminals”)
- represent Jamie Raskin And Bennie Thompson, senator Chuck Schumer And Mitch McConnell, former representative Adam Kinzinger, and former vice president Mike Pence (Trump reshared an article calling for their imprisonment)
“He is moody and has the attention span of a seven-year-old,” Harry Litman, a former Clinton DOJ official, told time by Trump. “But his desire for revenge against those he sees as his current rivals is very real, and there is no reason to think he will be deterred by legal niceties. ” (Trump’s office did not respond time‘ request for comment regarding whether he made good on threats of retaliation during the campaign.)