Trump floats putting his opponents and Hillary in JAIL if he wins in 2024 as MAGA plots retribution for the hush money guilty verdicts
Former President Donald Trump is once again brandishing the threat of retribution against his political enemies – with a growing list that could include the Manhattan DA who secured a 34-count conviction.
Also back on Trump’s radar years after the first ‘lock her up’ chants at Trump rallies: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
After riding into office in 2016 by vowing to go after Clinton and his rivals, Trump is directing his ire at prosecutors and judges who his allies in Congress accuse of waging ‘lawfare’ against him.
‘So, you know, it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them,’ Trump told Newsmax while still raging interview in the aftermath of the Manhattan jury verdict.
‘Does that mean the next president president does it them? That’s really the question,’ Trump said – deploying inserting a measure of ambiguity.
It came in a wild interview where he said there was a ‘cabal’ of judges against him, naming Judge Arthur Engoron and Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over his New York fraud and Stormy Daniels trials.
Former President Donald Trump raged in a new interview about the 'lawfare' he and allies claim is being deployed against him, and suggested prosecutors and political rivals could themselves be prosecuted
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has his own targets in mind, and it includes Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who also prosecuted him and secured an indictment on money laundering and conspiracy charges for his ‘We Build the Wall’ scheme.
‘Of course [Bragg] should be — and will be — jailed,’ Bannon told Axios. He cited the Constitution’s Equal Protection and the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable search and seizures.
‘Plus scores of other laws, Bannon said.
Trump also brought back a veiled threat to prosecute Clinton, his 2016 election rival, in language that began with describing how wrong it would be to go after a former first lady.
'Wouldn’t it be terrible, to throw the president's wife, as a former secretary of state? Think of it, the former secretary of state, put the president's wife into jail. Wouldn’t that be a terrible thing,’ he told Newsmax.
Making a list: Former President Donald Trump said it would be 'terrible' to 'put the president's wife into jail'
Trump's 2016 rallies featured repeated calls to 'lock her up'
Trump and his allies have also identified Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg as a legal target
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‘It's a terrible, terrible, path that they're leading us to. And it's very possible that it's going to have to happen to them.
Trump evinced some regrets about now going after Clinton while he was in office, even after a tenure where he cycled through attorneys general and was accused of politicizing the agency.
'I could have done it. But I felt it would have been a terrible thing. And then this happened to me. And, so I may feel differently about it,' he told Fox & Friends Weekend, also dangling a potential threat – and suggesting that such prosecutorial direction could come from him personally.
It comes after he railed in a post-conviction press statement about the Stormy Daniels trial, and claimed it was directed by President Joe Biden. AG Merrick Garland pushed back that charges were brought by local authorities who achieved a grand jury indictment.
Trump's talk of retribution has garnering support from Republicans in Congress.
'President Biden should just be ready because on January 20 of next year when he’s former President Joe Biden, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander,' Texas GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson told Newsmax.
'I am going to encourage all of my colleagues and everybody that I have any influence over as a member of Congress to aggressively go after the president and his entire family, his entire crime family, for all of the misdeeds that are out there right now related to this family.'
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan has a plan to use the appropriations process to try to target 'lawfare.'
His latest proposal is a fiscal 2025 spending program with legislative language 'to eliminate federal funding for state prosecutors or state attorneys general involved in lawfare and to zero out federal funding for federal prosecutors engaged in such abuse,' Fox news reported.
Prison isn't penalty enough for some of Trump's allies. 'Not just jail, they should get the death penalty,' far right media personality and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer said in a podcast interview highlighted by the New York Times.
