{"id":31244,"date":"2024-01-23T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=31244"},"modified":"2024-01-23T11:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T19:08:10","slug":"every-awful-thing-trump-has-promised-to-do-in-a-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/23\/every-awful-thing-trump-has-promised-to-do-in-a-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

23 January 24 (RSN.org)<\/a><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"EveryDonald Trump. (photo: Intercept)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The former president has pushed a slew of terrifying proposals, both publicly and privately, that he plans to unleash on America should he take down Biden<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump reportedly did not expect to win the presidency in 2016, which isn\u2019t surprising considering how ill-prepared he and his team were to take control of the country. He appointed established conservatives to key positions before learning some had personal principles that extended beyond indulging the president\u2019s ego. Trump wreaked havoc on the United States for four years, but the damage might have been even greater if he wasn\u2019t battling career public servants who tried to check his impulses, or if he wasn\u2019t such a political neophyte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump will not be the dog that caught the car heading into his second term. He\u2019ll be ready and waiting to take the wheel and hit the gas. The former president has now had nearly a decade to burnish his understanding of how Washington, D.C., works, and to assemble a political machine laser-focused on exploiting a federal government full of loopholes to give him the power to enact an authoritarian agenda that could spell disaster for the economy, the environment, human rights, and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump still needs to win the Republican nomination, but his romp in the Iowa caucuses on Monday confirmed that he is in total control of the primary and will almost certainly be squaring off with Joe Biden in an election to determine the fate of the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what\u2019s at stake:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He will indict Biden and his other political enemies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has made abundantly clear that he will use a potential second term in office to take revenge on his enemies. He\u2019s planning to do so by helming the Justice Department with a loyal attorney general willing to appoint a slew of special prosecutors to go after everyone he feels has wronged him. These plans have been in the works since 2021, as Rolling Stone<\/em> reported<\/a> in August, and focus not just on Biden, whom Trump believes is the primary force behind his myriad legal woes, but also on Special Counsel Jack Smith, Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and plenty of others. \u201cThere are almost too many targets to keep track of,\u201d one Trump adviser familiar with the discussions says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s potential revenge tour has already been mapped out in detail. Rolling Stone<\/em> reported<\/a> last year, for example, that Trump\u2019s team has been exploring legal strategies to criminally charge Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg \u2014 who indicted the former president for paying porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair ahead of the 2016 election \u2014 including by using the DOJ\u2019s civil rights divisions to go after Bragg, who is Black, for \u201cracist law enforcement policies,\u201d as one source put it. The Washington Post <\/em>has also reported<\/a> on the specificity of Trump\u2019s plans to take down his haters, noting in November that he even wants to investigate former allies he believes have turned on him, including his former Attorney General William Barr and former chief of staff John Kelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plans for retribution are being hatched behind the scenes, but Trump has been fantasizing publicly about putting them into motion. \u201cThe precedent on doing what they did, with the weaponization, using the DOJ and the FBI to go after their political opponents, that is so bad,\u201d Trump told Lou Dobbs in January, referring to the idea that all of his indictments and all of the lawsuits he is facing are politically motivated. \u201cThat means I can do it too,\u201d he continued. \u201cPandora\u2019s Box is open and that means that I can do it too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump: \u201cDoing what they did – using the DOJ & FBI to go after their political opponent .. that means that I can do it too. In other words, the Pandora\u2019s box is open, and that means that I can do it too.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/FYafQE2Wc0<\/a><\/p>— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>