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Former President Donald Trump tells supporters he'll be their "retribution" if elected in November. He talks of turning the military and the National Guard on the "enemy within," or those who don't support him, including Democratic figures like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-vows-to-go-after-his-enemies-if-elected-meet-two-enforcers-ready-to-carry-that-out/ar-AA1sQ9QY?
Trump speaks only in generalities about his intentions. But for the past year, a former top Trump national security official likely to join him in a new administration has been crisscrossing America recruiting an army of volunteers to help carry out such a plan.
That's Michael Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general and Trump's first White House national security advisor. He's also a former convicted felon who was banished from what he calls the "Deep State" national security bureaucracy after rising to become head of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence
Agency. At Flynn's side is his longtime aide Ivan Raiklin, an intense former Green Beret, retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and former DIA employee who's also a conservative lawyer.
Flynn and Raiklin are among the most vocal of a cadre of Trump allies calling for prosecution and even violence against the former president's political enemies.
Raiklin, who calls himself Trump's "Secretary of Retribution," has gone so far as to compile a "Deep State Target List" of more than 350 people he says he'll go after in a second Trump administration. \
These fuckers are sick.
ck4829
(35,679 posts)The whole Trump White House should be defunded really.
Autumn
(45,940 posts)No one.
Midnight Writer
(22,856 posts)He's naming names, he's talking about mass detentions and mass deportations, he's talking about suspending the Constitution and granting police and military total legal immunity.
When he talks about purging the vermin poisoning the blood of our country is there anyone who doesn't know what that means?
I don't know how he can make his intentions any clearer.
robbob
(3,627 posts)Hes got a little list. Actually, his enemies list is probably huge. Hes basically got a grievance against anyone who disagrees with him, and the higher up and more powerful they are, the more danger they are in. How did it come to this?
underpants
(186,056 posts)2024 Presidential Election
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In the event of Trump winning a second term, the self-proclaimed "Secretary of Retribution" claims that he would use constitutional sheriffs from conservative, rural counties to conduct raids (preferably live-streamed) of Trump's enemies, of which he has a "Deep State Target List" of 350 people. The list has been in circulation in right-wing circles since January 2024.[10] The sheriffs would purportedly deputize some 75,000 military veterans whom he claims were forced out of service because they refused to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandates.[11][12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Raiklin