MSNBC
“The Republicans’ plans: revenge.
using the federal government to punish critics and opponents”
“iF …I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say ‘Go down and indict them.’ They’d be out of business, they’d be out of the election.” [Trump’s dictatorship will be permanent!]
[Trump] “is practically bragging about his intentions — and not just in this week’s interview.”
Trump has been planning to lock up his political opponents since he first ran for office, “Lock her up!”
“The Republican’s weaponization efforts reached a truly amazing pinnacle less than a month before Election Day 2020, when Trump publicly called on federal prosecutors to go after Biden” …”The then-president added that his future successor shouldn’t be “allowed” to run against him.
“Trump’s former White House chief of staff, John Kelly, said the former president “regularly” wanted to use the Justice Department to retaliate against critics. Trump isn’t preparing a new retaliatory plan; Trump is instead preparing to pick up where he left off.
Nov. 10, 2023:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-offers-striking-candor-post-2024-weaponization-plans-rcna124581
The New Yorker
Trump, a man who is running on an explicit platform of revenge, retribution, and Constitution-termination.
Trump has already demanded that his aides make plans to target some former advisers who have become public critics, including his former chief of staff John Kelly, former Attorney General Bill Barr, and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley. Instead, Trump all but confirmed the story when he told the Spanish-language network that he would use the courts against his political rivals. “If I happen to be President and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say, ‘Go down and indict them,’ ” Trump told Univision. “They’d be out of business. They’d be out of the election.”
There should be no surprise in this, of course. When Trump ran in 2016, he promised to jail his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and laughed and cheered and egged on his crowds when they chanted, “Lock her up! Lock her up!”
In an appearance this week on “The View,” Clinton compared Trump to Adolf Hitler, who was, she noted, “duly elected” before he dismantled Germany’s democracy and turned himself into a dictator. Her main point—and it bears endless repetition between now and whatever awaits us next November—is that Trump has clearly spelled out exactly how he plans to go after core tenets of American democracy. There is no mystery here. “Trump is telling us what he intends to do,” Clinton said. “Take him at his word. The man means to throw people in jail who disagree with him, shut down legitimate press outlets, do what he can to literally undermine the rule of law and our country’s values.”
It’s worth noting that Clinton made those comments before Trump’s incendiary interview. He’s said it all before; he’ll say it all again. The question, with one year left on the clock, is: Who’s listening?
November 9, 2023
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/the-warnings-about-trump-in-2024-are-getting-louder
People’s World
IT is no joke!: * * * DICTATOR TRUMP * * * IN 2024
…”lawyers willing to toss out entirely the Constitution of the U.S. in order to turn Trump into a dictator.
Specifically, they are looking for legal justification for Trump to directly take over all the federal agencies, from the Justice Department on down, and to dismantle the entire civil service system. The government will become, essentially, an army of people dedicated to Trump …The Attorney General would become Trump’s personal lawyer and public television and radio would become Trump TV and radio.
[“Neutralizing the media’s power to expose his well-documented corruption would be a top priority.”-MSNBC]
Trump’s lawyers … told the court in a hearing last September that Trump had no responsibility for obeying the Constitution, despite his oath of office.
2023-11-03
Plans to install Trump as dictator in 2024 are out in the open
not only does the Republican party want to deny rights to abortion,
GOP House Speaker Johnson agreed to sponsor HR 431, which would ban birth control … It would ban IUDs and other forms of birth control.
https://www.rawstory.com/republican-congress-birth-control-ban/
Sept. 8, 2023
not only “has criminalizing abortion nationwide has been a core Republican goal for decades,
the GOP and its Christian right allies have spent years undermining access to contraception.
For decades, …They have relentlessly attacked Planned Parenthood
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/nikki-haley-abortion-contraception-republicans-rcna103909