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A Trump Executive Order Sets Out What Could Be a Road Map for Retribution
The order is titled “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” but it asserts that the Biden administration might have acted illegally and directs agencies to seek evidence.
Since his election victory, President Trump has said he would not seek retribution against his perceived enemies. “I’m not looking to go into the past,” he said last month on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Retribution will be through success.”
But in an executive order he signed on Monday night, Mr. Trump made clear that he has every intention to seek out and possibly punish government officials in the Justice Department and America’s intelligence agencies as a way to “correct past misconduct” against him and his supporters.
It would be justice, the order said, against officials from the Biden administration who carried out an “unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process.”
This is what retribution could look like during the second Trump presidency: payback dressed up in the language of victimhood.
“It looks like the beginning of a retribution campaign because it’s backward looking,” Mr. Kupperman said. “He’s still grappling with the past four years, and this is not the right outlet for him to play this out. It plays to his MAGA base, but it’s not the right one for the country.”
A Trump Executive Order Sets Out What Could Be a Road Map for Retribution
It's going to be worse than I thought. That's saying a lot.
trump supporters will say this is what they voted for. Unwittingly admitting they are the problem.
Don claims to ending the DoJ's weaponization even as he starts it in earnest. The name of the EO is as Orwellian as it gets.
The order is titled “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” but it asserts that the Biden administration might have acted illegally and directs agencies to seek evidence.
Since his election victory, President Trump has said he would not seek retribution against his perceived enemies. “I’m not looking to go into the past,” he said last month on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Retribution will be through success.”
But in an executive order he signed on Monday night, Mr. Trump made clear that he has every intention to seek out and possibly punish government officials in the Justice Department and America’s intelligence agencies as a way to “correct past misconduct” against him and his supporters.
It would be justice, the order said, against officials from the Biden administration who carried out an “unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process.”
This is what retribution could look like during the second Trump presidency: payback dressed up in the language of victimhood.
“It looks like the beginning of a retribution campaign because it’s backward looking,” Mr. Kupperman said. “He’s still grappling with the past four years, and this is not the right outlet for him to play this out. It plays to his MAGA base, but it’s not the right one for the country.”
A Trump Executive Order Sets Out What Could Be a Road Map for Retribution
It's going to be worse than I thought. That's saying a lot.
trump supporters will say this is what they voted for. Unwittingly admitting they are the problem.
Don claims to ending the DoJ's weaponization even as he starts it in earnest. The name of the EO is as Orwellian as it gets.