Highlights: Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.

In private, Trump has told advisers and friends in recent months that he wants the Justice Department to investigate onetime officials and allies who have become critical of his time in office, including his former chief of staff, John Kelly, and former attorney general William P. Barr, as well as his ex-attorney Ty Cobb and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley, according to people who have talked to him, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Trump has also talked of prosecuting officials at the FBI and Justice Department, a person familiar with the matter said.

  • @PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    411 year ago

    Okay, I’m wrestling between him whining and having fantasies of revenge against people because he’s a toddler, and his people actually trying to say he won and try and take it to SCOTUS while deploying all these plans while there’s disarray. As another article says, he and his evil minions know our weaknesses. I can’t believe that America hinged on Pence doing the right thing and he did, that was the only thing that kept this shit from deploying the last time. I hope there are serious plans in place to stop the disarray.

    • Natanael
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      131 year ago

      If he wins there’s literally only one thing left, and that’s the military choosing to reject his authority. If they don’t then your country is done for

      • @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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        61 year ago

        If they don’t, the left will be forced to put the second amendment to the test and I pray to every single fucking god and goddess in existence that they reject gun control and arm themselves before that happens.