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Trump’s biggest critics are already bracing for retaliation from the president-elect
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Trump’s biggest critics are already bracing for retaliation from the president-elect

After campaigning on the theme of “revenge” and promising to be “warlike” and “justice” for those who were “betrayed” by the government, Donald Trump he may soon be preparing to seek revenge against those he believes have wronged him.

President-elect Trump — which baselessly accuses the President Joe Bidenlaw enforcement “armament” administration and the court against him — will take office on January 20, 2025, with a number of executive powers at his disposal.

Oliva Troye, a former Trump administration official who joined Republicans speaking out against the former president at this year’s Democratic National Convention, he told NBC News that a passenger on an airplane told him “your days are numbered.”

“I’m worried that I will be targeted by him and a lot of people in his circle,” she said. “They know a lot about who I am. And I’m worried about my family.”

Trump’s Republican allies in Congress have already launched investigations into President Joe Biden and his family, as well as judges and prosecutors overseeing criminal cases against the former president, whose attacks inspired a flood of threats to their offices, courtrooms and families.

Donald Trump may soon take unprecedented steps to exact his promised Donald Trump may soon take unprecedented steps to exact his promised

Donald Trump may soon take unprecedented steps to exact his promised “revenge” against his political enemies (via REUTERS)

Republicans in Congress are already preparing a legislative storm, including a measure that would give internal revenue status. wide latitude to target ideologically opposed nonprofits.

Jack Smithspecial counsel leading investigations into Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, will be fired “within two seconds” of Trump taking office, he said. Trump also suggested that Smith should be “kicked out of the country.”

Billionaire Elon Musk, who poured tens of millions of dollars into Trump’s campaign and worked closely with the president-elect as he prepares to take office, wrote that Smith’s “abuse of the justice system cannot go unpunished.”

Trump’s legal ally Mike Davis told Newsmax that Smith “should go to prison for engaging in a criminal conspiracy against President Trump.”

After his indictment in the classified documents dossier, Trump said he would “appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the United States of America: Joe Biden and the entire Biden crime family.”

Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, CNN said Sunday that he doesn’t think “any of this will happen because we are the party that is against political prosecution.”

“We are the party that is against going after your opponents using the law,” he said.

Trump has hinted that he will direct the Justice Department to investigate President Joe Biden and his family. (AFP via Getty Images)Trump has hinted that he will direct the Justice Department to investigate President Joe Biden and his family. (AFP via Getty Images)

Trump has hinted that he will direct the Justice Department to investigate President Joe Biden and his family. (AFP via Getty Images)

Vice President Elect JD Vance he told Joe Rogan last month that the Trump administration will revoke security clearances for 51 people who signed a letter before the 2020 election questioning the authenticity of content discovered on a laptop allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

“They all still have security clearances, I think, which will change when we win,” he said.

Attorney Mark Zaid told NBC News that he has advised several clients who worked under the first Trump administration or criticized the president-elect to leave the country before he is sworn in until they have a better idea of ​​whether his administration will retaliate against them.

Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen HAD urged the Supreme Court earlier this year to look into Trump’s retaliatory “abuse of power” in his first term in office, when Cohen was held in solitary confinement — allegedly at Trump’s direction — for revealing plans for a tell-all memo after Cohen was prosecuted for lying to Congress and tax violations involving Trump’s 2016 campaign,

His testimony in Trump’s hush money trial, in which he testified before his longtime former client in a Manhattan courtroom, was crucial to prosecutors’ case, which led to a the jury’s 34-count guilty verdict.

“When Donald Trump tells you what he wants to do, what he plans to do, you understand that he’s done it before and you should listen to what he’s saying because he plans to do it again,” he told MSNBC earlier this year .

Meanwhile, Trump has promised mass pardons for hundreds of defendants he calls “hostages” and “patriots” after they were charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Trump also adopted a Supreme Court decision that grants the presidency broad “immunity.” from prosecution, which he saw as justification in his attempts to avoid more criminal trials and to The condemnation of Manhattan was thrown out entirely.