Posted on 01/27/2025 3:40:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The president made good on promises to seek revenge against enemies during his first week back in power, signaling in the process that anyone who crosses him in the future could also suffer.
In his first week in office, President Trump made clear that his promises to exact revenge on his perceived enemies were not empty campaign pledges — and that his retribution is intended not just to impose punishment for the past but also to intimidate anyone who might cross him in the future.
By removing security protections from former officials facing credible death threats, he signaled that he was willing to impose potentially profound consequences on anyone he sees as having been insufficiently loyal. That included his former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who helped lead the pandemic response.
Mr. Trump’s decision to try to scale back civil service protections was aimed at culling federal employees he believes slowed or blocked his first-term agenda and replacing them with loyalists. That initiative, developed in Mr. Trump’s first term but never fully enacted, is intended to create a chilling effect so that career employees know they could be fired if they are not compliant, one senior aide said.
By ordering the Justice Department and intelligence agencies to begin scouring their ranks in a hunt for political bias, he started a process of dismissing or sidelining officials deemed to have participated in investigations he has sought to cast as “witch hunts” against him.
His decision to grant clemency to even the most violent Jan. 6 rioters and those convicted on sedition charges for plotting an assault on democracy freed top leaders of far-right groups. Shortly after being released, two of the most prominent of those leaders asserted, unrepentantly, that they...
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They keep repeating the lie
People being held accountable for their actions while in power, is Justice. It has nothing to do with “retribution”
kinda one sided view on what’s going on, and unfortunately, all those authors, none could see clearly to write truth of why Trump is doing much of what he is.
“People being held accountable for their actions while in power, is Justice. It has nothing to do with “retribution””
Precisely. These people played politics with the power of their office. They should be fired.
These LIB/lefty nitwits have no understanding of the idea of accountability for their crimes. I hope Justice finds each and every one of these creeps.
Be Afraid NYT. very Afraid.
This should be emphasized, it’s not REVENGE, it’s RETRIBUTION.
Of course you can be sure these pukes were all in on the lawfare of the Party of Satan. The weeping and wailing of these evil people is music to my ears.
No, they should be hanged or shot !!!
Coming from ones who worship the ideas of a pus ridden satan possessed manic, who believed in abolishing the past, and the future, this is rich.
bump
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