Vanity Fair posted a partial list of people who have been threatened by Trump. It’s a partial list because Trump has threatened so many people that no one can name them all. He is truly at heart a Mafia Don.
Who, exactly, would be within their rights to be sweating buckets—or, more likely, shitting bricks—at the very real possibility of Trump and/or his government allies coming after them? The long list includes:
- Special counsel Jack Smith (Trump has said he should be “thrown out the country”)
- Joe Biden (Trump has vowed to appoint “a real special prosecutor to go after” the 46th president and his family)
- Kamala Harris (Trump has said she should be “prosecuted for her actions” concerning the border)
- Barack Obama (Trump wants the 44th president tried by “military tribunal”)
- Former GOP representative Liz Cheney(Trump circulated a post on social media calling her “guilty of treason” and arguing she should also be tried by a “military tribunal,” and separately, said she should have guns “trained on her face”)
- California senator-elect Adam Schiff(Trump has called the lawmaker the “enemy from within,” and suggested the military should be used against him)
- Nancy Pelosi (Trump has similarly dubbed the former House Speaker the “enemy from within” and called her “evil, sick, crazy,” and mouthed a word that “starts with a b”)
- General Mark Milley (Trump suggested last year that the retired Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman should be executed)
- New York attorney general Letitia James(Trump has called for James to be prosecuted, and one of his allies recently declared in an interview, “Listen here, sweetheart, we’re not messing around this time, and we will put your fat ass in prison for conspiracy against rights”)
- Justice Arthur Engoron (Trump has similarly called for Engoron, who presided over James’s case against the ex-president, to be prosecuted, and called him a “corrupt…political hack”)
- Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg(yes, Trump also wants Bragg, who brought the hush money case against him, prosecuted)
- “Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials” involved in the 2020 election (Trump has called for them to receive “long term prison sentences”)
- Mark Zuckerberg (Trump said during the 2024 race “we are watching him closely” and threatened the Meta founder, saying he could “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he broke any laws)
- Comcast (Trump has said the company, which owns NBC News and MSNBC, should be investigated for “treason”)
- ABC News (following his debate with Harris, Trump similarly declared the company should have its license taken away for fact-checking him)
- CBS News (Trump said the company should lose its license because he didn’t like the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Harris)
- Journalists (Trump has vowed to jail reporters who don’t reveal their sources on stories he believes concern national security, and “joked” that the threat of prison rape would get them to give up such information)
- “A sinister group of deep-state bureaucrats, Silicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists, and depraved corporate news media” (who Trump claimed comprise a “left-wing censorship regime” and that as president he would “order the Department of Justice to investigate” them and “to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified”)
- Representatives Jamie Raskin and Bennie Thompson, senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell,former representative Adam Kinzinger,and former vice president Mike Pence(Trump reshared a post calling for them to be jailed)
“He’s erratic and has the attention span of a seven-year-old,” Harry Litman, a former Clinton DOJ official, told the Times of Trump. “But his thirst for revenge against those he views as his current antagonists is very real, and there’s no reason to think he would be deterred by legal niceties.” (Trump’s office did not respond to the Times’ request for comment concerning whether he would make good on campaign revenge threats.)

Good morning Diane and everyone,
We have ways to fight back. We all now have to find ways that are meaningful to us to fight back. Do NOT have a defeatist attitude. Timothy Snyder in his book On Tyranny says, “Do not obey in advance.” No one can predict the situations that will arise – good and bad. Our system of government is different from countries where fascism has arisen previously and currently. When you think about it, our founding fathers were brilliant. Could they forsee everything that would happen? Of course not. But they gave us ideals and a framework. We are a country founded on rule of law, and that won’t go away in 2 minutes. It’s all hands on deck now. We have to start talking about ways to get involved – even if it seems small. Lawrence Tribe makes some good points here.
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/laurence-tribe-it-s-not-over-the-resistance-is-about-to-ignite-224025669597
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It’s true. Our government was designed to move slow with many checks and balances built in. Unfortunately, over the past 30-40 yrs, more checks and balances have been added (red tape/ by both sides) which makes it’s harder for anything meaningful to get accomplished quickly (or even slowly!). Operation Warp Speed was a great accomplishment for trump because it showed how quickly government “could” react to a situation when red tape is removed. trump never mentioned or took credit for that accomplishment when he was campaigning…..it’s something that he didn’t/doesn’t want anyone to remember….HMMM? trump might be able to cut red tape quickly, but there will still be the underlying checks and balances which will hold.
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i strenuously disagree that more checks and balances is a bad thing. The Construction was designed to thwart tyrants like Trump, and we need EVERY check and balance with him again on the horizon.
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Not often that I say this these days, TOW, but you are absolutely correct here.
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“Do not obey in advance”.
Okay, tell that to the Democrats who even now are working in lockstep with Republicans to strip tax exempt status from any nonprofit deemed to be “terrorist supporting.” Do you not see how that will be used??
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And that, would be, how the branches of the, U.S. government, become the, hitmen for, Trump, now that he and the, Republicans had, gained, complete control over, ALL three branches of, government, and, Trump will now, take out, all whom he, despises. The people in the U.S. will, soon know, how it is, to be, ENSLAVED, as the government will begin, stripping citizens of their, right to life, right to liberty, along will, ALL the rights, guaranteed to “we the people”.
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time for the preemptive pardons?
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All my life I have heard people complaining that this event or that event signaled the end of the American experiment in representative government. I always pointed out times in history when things looked or were dire. Settle down now, I said. Somehow I can’t say that now. This is different, new. Even when Andrew Jackson brought the spoils system to Washington, a system that made possible all the Guilded Age corruption, there was not the potential for the level of corruption we see now. Only now we face foreign corruption, promulgated by those in nations hostile to our long-stated values.
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Roy,
Corruption is facilitated by AI and social media
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could not agree more
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Fascism rose and fell in other countries. We can look to them for lessons. We can be inspired by all the people that Diane lists here. They knew what could happen if they spoke up. Think of others who have stood their ground and how people followed them. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you can’t do anything. You can do something even if you think it’s small. Find some way that is meaningful to you and do it. Others may follow. Don’t be defeated. We haven’t yet begun!
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The Story Behind the Iconic Photo of the Man who Defied Hitler & the Nazis by Refusing to Salute – The Free Thought Project
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Thanks for the link!
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Maria Ressa was just on Ali Velshi’s Saturday morning program (MSNBC). (Comcast is the parent of MSNBC and is on Trump’s hit list.)
Remember Ressa is the Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist from the Philippines who witnessed, and stood against, a fascist takeover of the government that had modeled itself on the U.S. Constitution, rights, laws, and other political and social institutions. She and her group underwent several arrests and jailings but somehow survived.
It’s probably too early to get a link to it, but if you can find the Velshi interview with her, it’s timely and enlightening. CBK
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A friend of mine whose father worked for Stalin told me this story: Stalin took the stage to speak, and everyone in the audience rose to clap. And clap and clap and clap and clap. This went on and on and on and on. Finally, one old man got tired and sat down. The next day, the NKVD arrested him.
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Have you heard of Stalin’s Road of Bones? Stalin’s purges weren’t meant to root out his enemies. Even when anyone who might have been anti-Stalin was gone, the purges continued.
They were meant to keep the people in perpetual fear that they might be next. Even the members on Stalin’s leadership council lived in fear they might be next. Including Khrushchev and Lavrentiy Beria.
https://phmuseum.com/projects/road-of-bones-1
Putin brought back Stalin as a hero and sane washed him. Today, younger Russians think the Stalin era was perfect.
Trump loves Putin and worships dictators like Hitler and Stalin.
Anyone who is a Never Trumper, who voted in 2016, 2020 and 2024, but didn’t vote for Trump, is on Trump’s enemies list.
What will history name Trump’s trail of bones?
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sane-washed not sand washed.
Typos and automatic spelling fixers are not a good fit.
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“If none of us is prepared to die for liberty, we will all die under tyranny.” From On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. Each one of us will have to decide what we are willing to do for the kind of country we want to live in.
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I think it would be prudent for everyone on this enemies list to stockpile antidotes for poisons used by Putin’s minions.
I am not joking. What he cannot do legally he will try by other means.
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No!
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Which underling will say to him, “Sir, you are the greatest and wisest man ever to serve as President, not to say the handsomest and the best golfer. But, sir, you really can’t do that.”
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