Yesterday, Raw Story reported that
#Ivan #Raiklin, Trump’s self-declared 👉“Secretary of Retribution”
has compiled a 💥“Deep State target list” 💥of 350 people he wants to see arrested and punished for “treason” if Trump is reelected.
The list includes Democratic and Republican elected officials,
journalists he considers to be Trump’s enemies,
U.S. Capitol Police officers,
and witnesses against Trump in his impeachment trials and the hearings concerning the events of January 6, 2021.
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told Raw Story:
“His hit list is a vigilante death warrant for hundreds of Americans
and a clear and present danger to the survival of American democracy and freedom.”
The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Raiklin said the list was just the beginning.
“This is the scratching of the surface of who is going to be criminalized for their treason, okay?”
Former president Donald Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, has tried to distance himself from the radical extremist blueprint outlined in #Project2025, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation.
Today, videos surfaced of Trump cheering the project on from the start.
At a Heritage Foundation dinner in 2022, Trump, slurring his words, said:
“Our country is going to hell…. This is a great group and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do...when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America. And that’s coming.”
On a right-wing podcast yesterday, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts said that Trump’s agenda and Project 2025 have “tremendous” overlap.
“There are some quibbles and differences of opinion here and there, which not only is okay, but it's actually good,” Roberts said.
“I mean, we're gonna be able to sort those out once the presidential administration declares what their priorities are.”
He said that 👉Trump’s attempt to distance himself from the project was “a political tactical decision.” 👈
Media Matters uncovered a video in which Project 2025 director Paul Dans said that
Trump is “very bought in with this.”
The Heritage Foundation, the key author of Project 2025, is a sponsor of the Republican National Convention.
Today the Heritage Foundation preemptively accused the Biden administration of cheating in the 2024 election and warned that Biden might try to hold the White House “by force.”
It said that Biden and his administration could “circumvent constitutional limits and disregard the will of the voters should they demand a new president.”
There is no indication that Biden, who has repeatedly said he will accept the election results, will try to launch a coup against the United States government.
In contrast, Trump, who has refused to say he will accept the election result unless he agrees with it,
has already done exactly what Heritage is trying to pin on Biden:
Trump tried to stay in office against the will of the voters in 2021.
Trump is currently under criminal indictment for that attempt,
although the Supreme Court’s eye-popping July 1 decision in Trump v. U.S. declaring that a president cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of a president’s “official duties”
means Trump can challenge those indictments.
Indeed, in the wake of that decision, Trump’s lawyers have filed a motion to vacate the jury’s conviction of Trump on 24 felony counts related to the falsification of business records in his attempt to skew the 2016 election, and to dismiss the indictment.
While the U.S. and our allies celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),
Erin Banco of Politico reported yesterday that Trump advisors have told foreign officials that
Trump plans to scale back U.S. cooperation and support for NATO,
including reducing the sharing of intelligence with NATO countries.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-11-2024
