Now,
with Trump heading back to the highest office in America, it’s likely that his
political rivals are now wondering if such a list exists – and, more
importantly, if their names are on it. Here are some of the political rivals
and organizations that Trump has previously vowed to go after:
Jack
Smith
Special
Counsel Jack Smith was leading the two federal criminal cases against Trump —
one involving his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and the other
involving his alleged mishandling of classified documents. The latter case was dismissed
by a judge but now both look unlikely to proceed.
Before
he won the 2024 presidential election, Trump said he would “fire” Smith for investigating him
and ominously suggested that he should be forced to leave the country.
During
a rant about illegal immigration in October, he called for the deportation of
“killers, the murderers, and the mentally deranged” before he turned to Smith.
“We should throw Jack Smith out with them,” Trump said. “Jack Smith should be
considered mentally deranged. He should be thrown out of the country.”
Liz
Cheney
Trump
has called for Liz Cheney, who endorsed Harris, to be jailed multiple times this year.
In March, he called for the former Wisconsin lawmaker – and other members of Congress who investigated his actions surrounding the January 6 2021 Capitol riots – to be jailed on Truth Social. By July, he called for “televised military tribunals” of his political opponents, sharing a post in the summer that stated: “Elizabeth Lynne Cheney is guilty of treason.”
Days
before the election, Trump sparked outrage after he conjured up a violent fantasy about Cheney being shot at while
campaigning with Tucker Carlson.
Mark
Milley
Trump’s
former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley has been accused of
treason by Trump – with the Republican even suggesting he should be “executed.”
After
a book reported Milley had “secret” phone calls with China regarding concerns
about Trump following the January 6 riots, Trump posted on Truth Social:
“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have
been DEATH! A war between China and the United States could have been the
result of this treasonous act.”
Nancy
Pelosi
The
former Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a regular target of Trump’s. He has called her “evil”, and
“more dangerous” than China or Russia, and called for her to be “prosecuted.”
At
a rally the weekend before Election Day, Trump said that Pelosi “could have
gone to jail” for ripping up a copy of his 2020 State of the Union address.
Joe
Biden
Before the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that entitles the president to immunity for official acts committed in office, Trump said he would hire a “real special prosecutor” to go after Joe Biden. “If they said that a president doesn’t get immunity, then Biden, I am sure, will be prosecuted for all of his crimes,” Trump also said in an interview with Time.
And
when asked whether he would pardon Biden’s son Hunter, who was convicted of tax
and gun charges in separate cases this year, Trump replied: “I wouldn’t
take it off the books. … Hunter’s a bad boy, there’s no question about it. But
I happen to think it’s very bad for our country...I could’ve gotten Hillary
Clinton very easily... I could’ve had her put in jail.”
Trump,
however, did not carry out his threat against Clinton during his first term.
Letitia
James
New
York Attorney General Letitia James successfully brought a $454m civil fraud case against Trump and has felt his
ire ever since.
“The
only Fraud was committed by A.G. Letitia James in convincing the Judge that
Mar-a-Lago was only worth $18,000,000 (in order to make my “numbers” look bad),
when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount,” Trump vented on Truth Social
last November. “She campaigned on ‘getting Trump.’ She should be prosecuted!”
The
civil case now hangs in the balance after Trump came out as the
victor in the presidential race, as he could try to wield the power of the
presidency to pressure those who have sued him, Politico reported.
Kamala
Harris
At a Pennsylvania rally at the end of September, Trump called for the vice president to be “impeached and prosecuted” over the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policies. “She should be disqualified,” Trump said. “She should resign the vice presidency and go home to California. She should be impeached and prosecuted for her actions.”
Trump was impeached twice during his first term, though he
was acquitted on all counts by the Senate.
Adam
Schiff
The Democrat was the lead impeachment manager who urged senators to remove Trump from office and one of the people Trump referred to as “the enemy from within.”
“These are bad people. We have a lot of bad people. But when you look at ‘Shifty Schiff’ and some of the others, yeah, they are, to me, the enemy from within,” Trump said on Fox News last month.
The
TV networks and “Fake News”
It’s
not only political figures Trump has vowed to take revenge on. He has also
raged at the TV networks and the “Fake News” media.
“I
say up front, openly, and proudly, that when I WIN the Presidency of the United
States, they and others of the Lame-Stream Media will be thoroughly scrutinized
for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of people, things, and
events,” Trump fumed on Truth Social in September 2023.
The billionaire also threatened to go after Google and
claimed, without evidence, that the search engine “only” shared “bad stories”
about him and “good stories” about Harris. “I will request their prosecution,
at the maximum levels, when I win the Election,” he wrote on Truth Social in
September.
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