Speaking in an interview with Newsmax about the legal attacks launched against him and what he will do to stop such attacks if he is elected president in November, Trump suggested that retribution could be coming. Namely, he suggested that those who he sees as being behind his torment could face the same sort of legal attacks he has.
As background, there is much belief on the right that the Biden Administration, particularly the DOJ, was involved in the cases against Trump, such as the case brought against Trump by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Stephen Miller’s America First Legal has sued the DOJ, demanding, under the Freedom of Information Act, communications having to do with that situation.
He made that comment while describing the situation as a “terrible thing,” saying, “I got a lot of credit from a lot of people, and some people said I should have done it, but, you know, could have, would have been very easy to do it, but I thought it would be a terrible precedent for our country. Wouldn’t it be terrible to throw the Pres wife and the former Secretary of State into jail? Wouldn’t that be a terrible thing? But they wanna do it!”
Continuing, Trump returned to calling the situation and precedent “terrible,” adding that the real question is if he will go through with it and try to jail his enemies as he was attacked with so many lawfare attacks. Begining with the part about it being “terrible,” he said, “It’s a terrible, terrible, path that they’re leading us to.”
Then, he warned that the same thing could happen to the regime apparatchiks who tried to take him down with lawfare, saying, “it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them. It’s a very terrible thing. It’s a terrible precedent for our country. Does that mean the next president does it to them? That’s really the question.”
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The Biden Campaign, predictably, released a hysterical statement on Trump’s comments, saying, “Reeling and increasingly unhinged from his own felony convictions, Trump raising plans to jail his political opponents is just the latest proof that he will do anything to regain power, preserve his own freedom and seek revenge on anyone who opposes him.”
Continuing, the statement said, “Trump is pledging to rule as a dictator on ‘day one, punish his enemies, embrace violence done on his behalf, and warns of a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses. The warning signs are clear for all to see. Trump is a danger to our Constitution, a threat to our democracy, and so consumed by his own failed, diminished state he has gone off the deep end.”
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