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WASHINGTON − Steve Bannon, who has advised former President Donald Trump, just warned the last two ex-FBI directors to "Get your passport, get the hell out of the country because hey, we're coming, in a second Trump term.
The presumptive Republican nominee's threats about imprisoning his opponents have caused such concern among people in U.S. law enforcement and intelligence that some are talking about leaving the country to avoid unfair prosecution if Trump wins a second term, according to Andrew McCabe, the former head of the FBI.
And Bannon, who served as an advisor to Trump's 2016 campaign and in the White House during his first term, said on his "War Room" podcast Saturday that McCabe and his predecessor would be targeted by a Trump White House for having investigated Trump's alleged collusion with Russia and other activities.
We will hunt you down," Bannon said in reference to McCabe and his predecessor, James Comey.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/11/trump-threats-scare-agents/74039044007/
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Takket
(22,308 posts)3Hotdogs
(13,089 posts)that I am prepared to sue, I was warn to use the vague phrase, I will seek a legal remedy.
MOMFUDSKI
(7,080 posts)he on EVERYBODYS shitlist?
lastlib
(24,275 posts)If the actual Justice Dept. wanted to go after him, I'd be OK. But we need to stay within the law, and not be OK with tRumpnazi tactics.
tinrobot
(11,269 posts)This is supposed to be a civil society.
MOMFUDSKI
(7,080 posts)left the station. It was on January 6th.
jpak
(41,780 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 11, 2024, 07:35 AM - Edit history (1)
And have extensive firearms training.
And who are you going get to "hunt them down"? The FBI? Good luck with that lol.
I'd watch your fat ass if I were you.
sop
(11,078 posts)Just_Vote_Dem
(3,056 posts)Botany
(71,673 posts)
because you are going to prison for 4 months and if there is any justice for much
longer for your help pay for the wall scam. Btw. Bannon worked with Russia and
Cambridge Analytica to install Trump in 2016.
Btw isnt this a threat? Hello DoJ.
BumRushDaShow
(137,091 posts)His involvement in Cambridge Analytica which just popped up in the news again - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143254678) and Brexit meddling, as well as "We Build The Wall", the NY trial of which will happen in September (after being moved to that date because Judge Merchan was "tied up" with someone else on the original May 28, 2024 trial date ), is gonna keep him rather busy.
Botany
(71,673 posts)Not to worry the DoJ is busy with a 6 year old filling out a form wrong charge
on Hunter Biden.
BumRushDaShow
(137,091 posts)since 45 pardoned him for the "We Build The Wall" federal indictment. I wouldn't worry about DOJ at this juncture and let NY and Bragg nail his ass.
PatSeg
(49,515 posts)is the reason he is throwing threats out there now in the hopes of intimidating the prosecutors, the judge, and a potential jury. He seems to be getting more and more reckless all the time.
BumRushDaShow
(137,091 posts)If he actually finally reports to prison July 1st, they would have to pull him out temporarily to do that other trial.
3 bloviating mouthpieces will at least be silenced for awhile (him, Ghouliani, and Alex Jones).
PatSeg
(49,515 posts)Old Crank
(4,252 posts)shows his true colours.
We all knew already he is an ass.
maxrandb
(15,715 posts)How does a fucking piece of garbage, waiting to begin a fucking prison sentence, get away with threatening former heads of the FBI?
Someone in authority needs to grab him off the street and make his prison sentence begin TODAY!!
A HERETIC I AM
(24,486 posts)Fucking shoot the guy and be done with it.
twodogsbarking
(11,502 posts)KS Toronado
(18,595 posts)Asking for a friend.
onlyadream
(2,195 posts)Just fear mongering wishful thinking.
Joinfortmill
(15,681 posts)Had an entire spreadsheet with step by step for all contingencies I could think of. And I'm just an annonnymous old gal. So, yup, I get it.
Hotler
(11,771 posts)fight to save democracy. Thank you for your service. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
gordianot
(15,404 posts)Threats are never a good idea.
PatSeg
(49,515 posts)But he is drawing the attention of people who could put him in jail. People like Bannon seem incapable of keeping a low profile and lying low. He keeps poking the bear.
BComplex
(8,889 posts)I don't blame her, but it makes me so fucking angry that I won't have easy access to be able to hang with my friend if that happens.
Kid Berwyn
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British intel caught FBI spy chief secretly meeting a Russian in London
* An FBI spy chief's secret meeting with a Russian contact was detected by UK officials.
* Charles McGonigal, the ex-FBI official, is charged with taking money from Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska.
* McGonigal should have realized that the London meeting would be noticed, one source said.
Mattathias Schwartz
Insider, Feb 16, 2023, 5:00 AM
In 2018, Charles McGonigal, the FBI's former New York spy chief, traveled to London where he met with a Russian contact who was under surveillance by British authorities, two US intelligence sources told Insider.
The British were alarmed enough by the meeting to alert the FBI's legal attaché, who was stationed at the US Embassy. The FBI then used the surreptitious meeting as part of their basis to open an investigation into McGonigal, one of the two sources said.
The two sources, both former officials in the US intelligence community, did not specify the identity of the Russian who McGonigal met with.
McGonigal, the former head of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York, stands accused of taking money from Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch, in violation of US sanctions, in exchange for investigating one of Deripaska's Russian rivals. McGonigal "traveled to meet Deripaska and others at Deripaska's residence in London, and in Vienna," according to one of the federal indictments lodged last month. The indictments do not say precisely when those alleged meetings took place, or how prosecutors came to believe they occurred.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/british-uk-london-deripaska-charles-mcgonigal-fbi-meeting-russia-surveillance-2023-2
When it comes to the Judicial Branch, Bannon really is all over the place.
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"Two coats, Mr. Putin. Two coats!"
GreenWave
(8,384 posts)SWBTATTReg
(23,443 posts)money from those that invested funds in that fake wall along the southern border (and found guilty), go to jail and rot there, it won't take much more for you to rot, looking at you now. You look pretty disgusting.