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    Trump threatened to sue his opponents and citizens: what you need to know

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    Let him revenge tour to start.

    During his campaign, the president-elect Donald Trump made it clear that he was prepared to go after anyone he perceived as an obstacle to his return to the White House. Now that he has secured his position, various groups – including political opponents, the tech industry and the media – are expressing concern that he will follow through on his threats.

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    “I am your warrior,” the former president said as he revived his bid for the presidency in 2023. “I am your justice, and to those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your punishment.”

    Last month, Trump told Fox News that these adversaries were “bad people.”

    “They are, for me, the enemy from within,” he said.

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    Political opponents

    Above all, Trump threatened legal action throughout his campaign, before attacking the president. Joe Bidenformer opponent Vice President Kamala Harrisand former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

    Last week, Trump told the Fox News host Tucker Carlson In Arizona this former Republican representative of the United States. Liz Cheneywho chaired the House Select Committee investigating January 6 riots, should stand in the line of sight.

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    “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her there with a nine-barreled shotgun shooting at her, okay? » Trump said. “Let’s see how she feels, you know, when the guns are pointed in her face.”

    In September 2023, Trump posted on Truth Social, calling Mark Milley, his former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a “woke train wreck” and claiming that his punishment for calling out China after the attack on January 6 was “an act so blatant that, once upon a time, the punishment would have been DEATH!”

    Judicial system

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    As the lawsuits against Trump intensified after this attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, so did his threats against prosecutors and judges handling the cases.

    In Georgia, Fani Willis, Fulton County Prosecutor The election racketeering case against Trump and 18 others remains constrained by controversy and legal challenges with no trial date set as four co-defendants have pleaded guilty.

    Trump and his legal team have repeatedly attempted to discredit Willis, including calling for his dismissal from the case over an apparently inappropriate romantic relationship with a special prosecutor assigned to the case.

    Last month, Trump said on a conservative radio show that Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, a U.S. citizen who is pursuing federal charges against Trump, should be expelled.

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    “We should throw Jack Smith in with the mentally deranged,” he said. “Jack Smith should be considered mentally disturbed and she should be removed from the country.”

    American citizens

    Trump had made his disdain for the media known from day one, attacking “fake news,” mocking journalists and discrediting organizations that reported information he deemed false or unfavorable to him.

    Days before the election, Trump, while complaining about the bulletproof glass surrounding him, told a crowd in Pennsylvania that “to get to me, someone would have to shoot through the fake news, and It doesn’t bother me that much.”

    He said earlier at the event: “The media is so bad it’s unbelievable.”

    Often at rallies, Trump makes these comments about the media, pointing to them where his supporters will boo.

    “ABC, ABC fake news, CBS, ABC, NBC,” he said. “These are seriously corrupt people.”

    Other targets of Trump’s threats include election workers, further sowing doubt about the integrity of the 2020 election, which he lost to Biden.

    “When I win, people who cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, which will include long prison sentences so that this depravity of justice never happens again,” Trump said on Truth Social in September.

    He added: “Please note that this legal exposure extends to lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters and corrupt election officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, arrested and prosecuted at levels, sadly, never seen before. our country.”

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