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President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised at times to use the vast powers of his office to seek revenge against politicians and officials who he contends have wronged him. Over the past several years, he has publicly named a range of those people and specified what he believes should happen to them.

“I am your warrior, I am your justice,” Mr. Trump told supporters in 2023. “And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”

Here are some of the officials who have been frequent targets of his ire.

Prosecutors and Judges

“Jack Smith should be considered mentally deranged, and he should be thrown out of the country,” Mr. Trump said in October 2024.

Ms. James “should be prosecuted,” Mr. Trump said in November 2023.

Mr. Trump said at a campaign rally last January that both Judge Engoron and Letitia James “should be arrested and punished accordingly.”

“Alvin Bragg should be held accountable for the crime of ‘interference in a presidential election,’” Mr. Trump said in March 2023.

Mr. Trump said Ms. Willis “should be impeached for many reasons,” August of 2023.

Jan 6. investigators

Ms. Cheney “should be prosecuted for what she has done to our country,” Mr. Trump said in a social media post last March, adding: “She should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee.”

The whole Jan. 6 committee “should be prosecuted for their lies and, quite frankly, TREASON!” Mr. Trump wrote in March 2023.

First-term foes

Mr. Trump called General Milley a “woke train wreck” who committed a treasonous act for calls he made to his Chinese counterpart as Mr. Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election. “This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!” Mr. Trump said in September 2023.

“Cohen should be prosecuted for lying and all of the tumult and cost he put the D.A.’s Office through,” Mr. Trump said in March 2023.

“Washed up Creepster John Bolton is a lowlife who should be in jail, money seized, for disseminating, for profit, highly Classified information,” Mr. Trump said in 2020.

The ‘Deep State’

Mr. Trump repeatedly attacked Mr. Comey in public during his first term, including calling him a traitor and accusing him of breaking the law. “He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted,” Mr. Trump said in 2018.

Mr. Trump has suggested Mr. McCabe committed treason and broke the law. Most recently, on June 18, 2024, he posted an article in which Steve Bannon said, in regards to Mr. McCabe, “we’re going to come and get you.”

Mr. Trump has on multiple occasions accused Mr. Strzok of treason, including in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in 2018.

“They should be prosecuted for what they did,” Mr. Trump said last June.

“CBS gets a license,” Mr. Trump said on Oct. 11, 2024. “And the license is based on honesty. I think they have to take their license away.”

At a Nov. 7, 2022, rally, Mr. Trump discussed jailing reporters who refuse to give up their sources: “You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ and the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye. The reporter goes to jail,” Mr. Trump said.

“We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison,” Mr. Trump wrote in his latest coffee table book, “Save America,” released last September.

Since Mr. Trump won, Mr. Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, has donated $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inaugural fund, Mr. Zuckerberg has met with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago and he ended Meta’s fact-checking program, a move widely applauded by Mr. Trump’s supporters.

Politicians

“I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family,” Mr. Trump said in June 2023.

Mr. Trump accused Mr. Obama of “treason” in 2020 and reposted an image on Aug. 28, 2024 that called for a military tribunal for Mr. Obama.

Ms. Harris should be “impeached and prosecuted” for her handling of the southern border, Mr. Trump said at a campaign rally on Sept. 29, 2024.

“I could have put her in jail,” Mr. Trump said at a rally on Aug. 21, 2024. “Wouldn’t it be terrible to put the wife of the president of the United States in jail?”

“Schiff is a sleazebag and traitor, and should be prosecuted for the damage he has done to our Country!” Mr. Trump said in January 2023.

Mr. Trump said in September 2024 that Ms. Pelosi “should be prosecuted” for selling Visa stock before the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against the company. He also said Ms. Pelosi should be prosecuted for security lapses at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“I think Nancy Pelosi is an enemy from within,” Mr. Trump said in October 2024.

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January 19, 2025
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