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Autumn

(45,940 posts)
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 12:18 PM 4 hrs ago

Trump vows to go after his enemies if elected. Meet two enforcers ready to carry that out

WASHINGTON
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.

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Trump vows to go after his enemies if elected. Meet two enforcers ready to carry that out (Original Post) Autumn 4 hrs ago OP
If Trump were to be elected, then not a single govt dollar should go to these crooks ck4829 3 hrs ago #1
If Trump is elected they will do whatever they want. There's NO ONE to stop them. Autumn 3 hrs ago #3
"Trump speaks only in generalities about his intentions"? Not really. Midnight Writer 3 hrs ago #2
I'm sure, just like Nixon robbob 3 hrs ago #6
Raiklin "Secretary of Retribution" underpants 3 hrs ago #4
Zero in Dan 3 hrs ago #5

ck4829

(35,679 posts)
1. If Trump were to be elected, then not a single govt dollar should go to these crooks
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 12:20 PM
3 hrs ago

The whole Trump White House should be defunded really.

Midnight Writer

(22,856 posts)
2. "Trump speaks only in generalities about his intentions"? Not really.
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 12:22 PM
3 hrs ago

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)
6. I'm sure, just like Nixon
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 12:38 PM
3 hrs ago

He’s “got a little list”. Actually, his enemies list is probably huge. He’s 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)
4. Raiklin "Secretary of Retribution"
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 12:24 PM
3 hrs ago

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

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