(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Trump Still Swears to Take REVENGE on Political Foes, Even After Lame Attempts to Walk it Back [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-07 The prospect of another four years of Donald Trump occupying the White House is a blood curdling notion that most Americans would find more nauseating than dinner with Hannibal Lector who, along with Jeffrey Epstein, has been making more frequent appearances in Trump's stump speeches at his cult rallies. Click here to Tweet this article In most presidential campaigns, the candidates focus on detailing their proposals for advancing the welfare of the citizenry whose votes they seek. Trump, however, has been a uniquely unconventional candidate. His pitch to voters is a promise to "be their retribution," He was even asked by Sean Hannity of Fox News whether he had "any plans whatsoever, if reelected president, to abuse power, to break the law, to use the government to go after people?" To which Trump replied that he would only be a dictator on "day one." That's comforting, isn't it? SEE THIS: Trump Cloddishly Dodges Hannity’s Softball Questions About Whether He Would Be a Dictator More recently, Trump and his MAGA media mouthpieces have been attempting to sanitize his most appalling campaign promises to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate his political enemies. To that end he sat for an interview with Dr. Phil McGraw who tried to give him an opening to soften his stance on vengeance, asking him specifically about his intentions to "make the people that have come after you pay." But Trump instead replied that "Sometimes revenge can be justified, I have to be honest." On Thursday Trump made it clear that he still intends to lock up his critics. He posted a comment on his floundering social media scam, Truth Social, wherein he maliciously and childishly attacked President Biden, the American justice system, and members of Congress... "It is a Total and Complete American Tragedy that the Crooked Joe Biden Department of Injustice is so desperate to jail Steve Bannon, and every other Republican, for that matter, for not SUBMITTING to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, made up of all Democrats, and two CRAZED FORMER REPUBLICAN LUNATICS, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, and Liz 'Out of Her Mind' Cheney." Although that was just the beginning of an elaborate rant that was typically comprised of flagrant falsehoods and culminated with a call to indict the members of the House Committee Investigating January 6th... "It has been irrefutably proven that it was the Unselects who committed actual crimes when they deleted and destroyed all material evidence, in a pathetic attempt to protect Crazy Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats from the TRUTH — THAT I DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG. The unAmerican Weaponization of our Law Enforcement has reached levels of Illegality never thought possible before. INDICT THE UNSELECT J6 COMMITTEE FOR ILLEGALLY DELETING AND DESTROYING ALL OF THEIR 'FINDINGS!' MAGA2024" First of all, Trump's assertion that crimes by the Committee were "irrefutably proven" have no basis in reality. There is no truth whatsoever that the Committee "deleted and destroyed all material evidence." That's a lie that Trump has floated before, and it has been thoroughly debunked. SEE THIS: Trump Demands Indictments Be Withdrawn After Fox News Falsely Reports on January 6th Committee Reality, however, has not deterred to Trump from calling for indictments and further persecution driven by his wholly fabricated allegations. And he has gotten support from his pals at Fox News. For instance, Jesse Watters did a segment in which he dismissed as a hoax accurate observations by Democrats that Trump "plans to jail opponents." Kellyanne Conway said that not having prosecuted Hillary Clinton is proof that Trump doesn’t want revenge. Except that he tried to, but failed because his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, couldn't find any crime. And Trump recently told Fox and Friends that he never said "Lock her up," about Clinton. Except that he definitely did... x Along with lies about his term in office, Trump tells Fox News that he never said "Lock her up," about Hillary Clinton. Except that he definitely did.pic.twitter.com/LIwaGfGDXgpic.twitter.com/56WQxEUuBw — News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) June 2, 2024 So regardless of what the Trump-fluffers on Fox News and other right-wing media say, Trump is clearly on a determined course to emulate his hero, Vladimir Putin, by eliminating his opponents by any means necessary. He says so. Believe him. And then be sure to vote for Biden and every Democrat on the ballot to make certain that Trump's nightmarish vision doesn't come true. RELATED STORIES: [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/7/2245407/-Trump-Still-Swears-to-Take-REVENGE-on-Political-Foes-Even-After-Lame-Attempts-to-Walk-it-Back?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/