by After campaigning on the theme of “retribution” and promising to be a “hero” and “justice” for those who were “betrayed” by the government, Donald Trump could soon prepare to seek revenge on the people he believes have wronged him.
President-elect Trump – who baselessly criticizes President Joe Biden’s administration for “arming” law enforcement and the court against him – will take office on January 20, 2025, with a range of executive powers at his fingertips.
Oliva Troye, a former Trump administration official who joined Republicans who spoke out against the former president at this year’s Democratic National Convention, told NBC News that a passenger on a plane told her “your days are numbered.”
“I’m worried that he will target me and a lot of people in his circle,” she said. “They really know who I am. And I worry about my family.”
Trump’s Republican allies in Congress have already launched investigations into President Joe Biden and his family, as well as the judges and prosecutors overseeing the criminal cases against the former president, prompting many of their attacks. threats to their offices, courtrooms and families.
Congressional Republicans are already preparing a legislative firestorm, including a measure that would give the Internal Revenue Service broad latitude to target ideological nonprofits.
Jack Smith, the special counsel leading investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, will “within two seconds” after Trump take office, he said. Trump also suggested that Smith should be “thrown out of the country.”
Billionaire Elon Musk, who poured tens of thousands of dollars into Trump’s campaign and worked closely with the president-elect as he prepared to take office, wrote that “the abuse of the justice system cannot be without punishment” by Smith.
Trump’s legal ally, Mike Davis, told Newsmax that Smith “should go to prison for engaging in a criminal conspiracy against President Trump.”
After her indictment in the classified documents case, 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, told CNN on Sunday that he “doesn’t believe any of that is going to happen because we are the party against political prosecution.”
“We are the party that is against your opponents using the law,” he said.
Vice President-elect JD Vance told Joe Rogan last month that the Trump administration would pull security clearances for 51 people who signed a letter before the 2020 election questioning the authenticity of material found on a laptop allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son Hunter .
“They all still have security clearances, I believe, which will change when we win,” he said.
Attorney Mark Zaid told NBC News that he advised several clients who worked under the first Trump administration or criticized the president-elect for leaving the country before he is sworn in until further notice. they prefer to do their administration against each other.
Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, urged the Supreme Court earlier this year to review Trump’s “abuse of power” claims in his first term in office, when Cohen was held in solitary confinement — allegedly at Trump’s direction – to reveal plans for news. memorial after Cohen was prosecuted for lying to Congress and tax violations related to the Trump campaign in 2016,
His testimony in Trump’s hush money trial, where he testified before his longtime former client for several days in a Manhattan courtroom, was crucial to prosecutors’ case that led to a 34-count jury guilty verdict.
“When Donald Trump tells you what he wants to do, what he intends to do, he knows he’s already done it and you should listen to what he’s saying because he intends to do it again,” he told MSNBC earlier this year.
Meanwhile, Trump has promised massive pardons to hundreds of criminal defendants he calls “hostages” and “patriots” after they were charged in connection with the January 6 Capitol attack.
Trump also accepted the Supreme Court’s decision that gives the office of the presidency broad “immunity” from criminal prosecution, which he saw as justification in his efforts to avoid multiple criminal trials and throw out his Manhattan conviction entirely.
