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    Trump Said He Would Use DOJ to Attack Rivals: Who Did He Threaten?

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    Top line

    President-elect Donald Trump suggested last year that he would use the FBI and Justice Department to attack his political rivals if he were granted a return to the White House, which could see him take on people like President Joe Biden, former Attorney General Bill Barr and the District of Manhattan. Attorney Alvin Bragg and Special Prosecutor Jack Smith.

    Key facts

    Months after he was indicted in four separate cases for corporate fraud, mishandling of classified documents and election interference. claimed without basis were orchestrated by President Joe Biden in an “attempt to rig and steal an election” – Trump suggested he could use federal agencies to go after his political rivals if he returned to power.

    In a interview Last November, in an interview with Spanish-language television station Univision, Trump said “it definitely could happen” and that his indictments “brought the genie out of the box.”

    He again claimed his indictments were part of a rigged election scheme and said, “If I’m president and I see someone who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I’ll give him say go charge him, most of the time he won’t have a chance. business. They would be outside.

    In an interview with Fox News in October, Trump suggested The armed forces could be used as a potential weapon against opponents and has repeatedly stated that he is concerned about the “enemy within”.

    Over the summer, Trump shared messages on his social media site, Truth Social, calling for “televised military courts» from political opponents, particularly former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who spoke out against him.

    Before his second term victory on Tuesday, Trump and his allies had drawn up plans for how to use the federal government to punish critics and opponents, The Washington Post reported, and Trump reportedly told advisers and friends that he wanted to go after former allies who had become critical of his tenure.

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    Who did Trump threaten to sue?

    Publicly, Trump has undertook to appoint a special prosecutor to “go after” Biden and “the entire Biden crime family” for corruption accusations Trump made without evidence. At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Trump made baseless calls to become vice president. Kamala Harris be indicted and prosecuted for his actions” in reference to illegal border crossing. He has accused former president Barack Obamaformer Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosiformer director of the FBI James Comey and the senator. Adam Schiff (California Democrat) of treason (there is no proof of these allegations). Trump announced he would lay off Jack Smiththe federal prosecutor who is leading the case against him for election interference and mishandling of documents, and also said Bragg, who led a grand jury to bring the first-ever criminal charges against a former president, “should be prosecuted or at a minimum, he should resign.” Trump threatened Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg with “life in prison” if he did “anything illegal” related to the election, and said he could ask the Justice Department for criminal prosecution investigate Google for promoting negative stories about him. Other potential targets among the retaliators are former Trump chief of staff John KellyWHO said he fit the definition of “fascist” and preferred a “dictatorial approach” to leadership; Barrwho vouched for the force of Trump’s accusations and compared Trump to a “rebellious 9-year-old”; former lawyer Ty CobbWHO said publicly Trump “stands for nothing but pure ambition”; and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley, WHO called the former president “fascist to the core”. Ahead of Tuesday’s election, Trump threat attorneys, donors, voters and election officials will be prosecuted if they are caught participating in “unscrupulous behavior” related to the election. Trump too said he wants to work with Congress to impose prison sentences on anyone who desecrates the American flag, comments that came after pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.

    Crucial quote

    “I will appoint a real special prosecutor to prosecute the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family,” Trump said. said in June after an indictment in Miami. “I will totally wipe out the deep state.”

    Key context

    Lawsuits against political rivals are a hallmark of authoritarian regimes, and a president imposing his control over the Justice Department would be a major shift from decades of past practice of agency independence. The Ministry of Justice was largely independent in the White House since a series of major reforms following the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974, but a second Trump term could change that. Two of Trump’s allies, Jeffrey Clark and Russell Vought of the right-wing Center for Renewing America, have pushed for an administration in which the Justice Department is treated no differently from any other cabinet position and where the president could direct individual investigations. New York Times reported. Clark, a key figure in an investigation into one of Trump’s 2020 election interference cases, will likely be appointed to the DOJ now that Trump has won. Vought said in a statement to Times that “conservatives are waking up to the fact that federal law enforcement is being used as a weapon against them and, therefore, are adopting paradigm-shifting policies to reverse this trend.” In an interview in April, Trump said he open to fire U.S. attorneys who refused his orders to prosecute someone.

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