Trump has vowed retribution and revenge against everyone who dared to question his motives and integrity. Let’s see how that goes. The felonious President-elect has former Special Counsel Jack Smith in his crosshairs, according to The Washington Post.
Smith, as you know, indicted Trump for hiding top-secret and confidential documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, stashed away in closets, storerooms, and a bathroom. When asked politely by the National Archives to return the documents, Trump said he didn’t have them. Then, he said he had them, but they belonged to him, citing the Presidential Records Act (which said no such thing). Then his case landed in the court of a judge appointed by Trump, who appointed a Special Master to review the documents. After her decision was overturned by an Appeals Court, Judge Aileen Cannon sat on the case and eventually threw it out, on grounds that the Special Counsel was illegally appointed.
Smith tried Trump in the DC federal courts for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, but Trump’s lawyers managed to stall the case (with the help of the U.S. Supreme Court, which sat on the appeal for months without a decision). The case was successfully killed by these delaying tactics. Trump never faced the accountability he deserved.
Now he will punish Jack Smith for daring to prosecute him.
And he will use the Justice Department to investigate the 2020 election. Will the investigators dare to tell Trump that it was not stolen?
President-elect Donald Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions against the former president, including career attorneys typically protected from political retribution, according to two individuals close to Trump’s transition.
Trump is also planning to assemble investigative teams within the Justice Department to hunt for evidence in battleground states that fraud tainted the 2020 election, one of the people said.
The proposals offer new evidence that Trump’s intention to dramatically shake up the status quo in Washington is likely to focus heavily on the Justice Department, the nation’s premier law enforcement agency, and that at least some of his agenda is fueled not by ideology or policy goals but personal grievance.
Trump still believes, it appears, that he won in 2020 , that he was right to send a mob to lay waste to the U.S. Capitol, and to hide top-secret documents in his home.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Why stop with firing the lawyers. If trump and his wrecking team really want to be change/chaos agents, forget about context; let them take the Shakespeare quote to heart: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
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”Career Justice Department lawyers say they intend to outlast 2nd Trump administration. The political passions of past attorneys general and presidents have proved to be fleeting storms. The deep state is the permanent government, which can be slow and frustrating but is also a bedrock. Democracy, as Yale historian Timothy Snyder has written, depends on laws implemented by civil servants. We might find bureaucracy annoying. It’s absence, though, is deadly.”
Report From Inside The Deep State. We’re NOT Going Anywhere Washington Post 11/27/24
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Trump is going to try to find grounds to dire these people. They will, however, have records of past performance appraisals.
No doubt Trump and his trained seals will do their ugly best to make life miserable for these people but he cannot simply fire federal employees.
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my fear is that he will replace thousands of competent people who professionally conduct business like census and fraud oversight. He will make the country safe for kleptocracy.
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I don’t think Trump believes he won the 2020 election; he said as much earlier this year in an unguarded moment. I just think his ego is so all-encompassing that he thinks he owns reality and so he can change it if he doesn’t like it–and everyone either will or should follow along.
And btw, don’t use Trump to grift for yourself, not unless you want to face moral outrage in the form of The Wrath of Eric. (Grift is the king’s prerogative, don’t you know).
We are dealing with a crazy man here, People. CBK
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Trump KNOWS he lost in 2020, and admitted it to a number of people with statements like “can you believe I lost to this guy?” but his ego is so fragile he needs to have people believe he didn’t, that it was stolen from him, and he has to keep that lie going or else he is afraid people will turn on him and then he cannot intimidate folks in House and Senate. He is already showing weakness – despite calling multiple Senators he found he could not get Gates through. He has a number of others that MIGHT get blocked in the Senate and/or be forced to withdraw. Once Senators realize they do NOT have to be afraid of him, it COULD start a wave of opposition. And he will not be getting legislation through. In House once those he is appointing to other position leave, he is down to 217-215, & it will only take a couple of folks to torpedo his radical proposals. That is why Johnson is talking with Thune because they cannot kill filibuster and only way they can get around it is via one reconciliation bill per session (year) and even that has to clear parliamentarian as to whether content of bill fits. Stay tuned. This could be a wild ride.
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Ken,
The House Republicans chosen by Trump are in safe districts. When will they be replaced?
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not until April, and that is true for Gaetz seat as well.
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Folks we are entering dangerous times. Dangerous times require extreme actions to protect all of us.
I can not comprehend why the DNC did not challenge any results in any of the swing states. The margins keep getting slimmer and slimmer. being 100% sure that the Orange Turd really won is essential for the first step of resistance.
Instead of the circular firing squad that the DNC has begun regarding why she lost, they need to focus on the task at hand. Getting rid of the Orange Turd and his puppet handlers.
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For all the complaints from Republicans about weaponizing the Justice Department, isn’t that EXACTLY what Trump is planning to do and has said so? And where are the protests about THAT?
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Trump insists that Biden weaponized the Justice Department against him. He believes he did nothing wrong. Stealing documents was not a crime, he believes. Inciting an insurrection was patriotic because the election was a crime. The J6 terrorists were patriots.
So having absolved himself of any criminal behavior, he feels free to do to Biden what was done to him.
Except for the fact that it was illegal to steal and refuse to return government records. And it was rimjnal to unleash a violent action against the Congress.
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And we should add that the Mar-a-Lago bathroom documents were available to any foreign guest (acquainted with Putin or no) who all of a sudden felt a need to “go.” Go where? is the question–and with what?
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I hope every instagram, news outlet, and whatever else runs a continuous loop and billboards everywhere with of Trump with hand on a Bible swearing to uphold the Constitution that begins, “We the People, In order to form a more perfect UNION…”
Then maybe a tally sheet for how many times a day he violates that Oath!
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