Trump hints he'll raid Clinton and Obama if he retakes the White House

Trump hints he’ll raid Clinton and Obama if he retakes the White House, shares post calling the FBI ‘fascist’ and an op-ed saying the Mar-a-Lago raid will get him re-elected after victorious night in Wyoming

• Former president shared an op-ed predicting ‘he would be even more unrestrained as the 47th president than he was as the 45th’
• It warns of the ‘boomerang’ of history
• Suggests future Republican AG may raid homes of Biden, Obama, Clinton, and Comey 
• Trump also tweeted an article in the American Spector that referenced the ‘Fascist Bureau of Investigation’ 
• ‘The Payback for Mar-a-Lago Will Be Brutal’

Former President Donald Trump signaled that he intends to capitalize on the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid – sharing an op-ed that predicting Republicans might exact vengeance by using law enforcement to go after Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  

Trump shared without comment an op-ed by loyalist and conservative columnist Kimberly Strassel in the Wall Street Journal, whose work he has frequently promoted in the past.

The writer describes a ‘boomerang history of unleashed governmental powers,’ observing that Republicans used a post-watergate independent counsel statute to go after President Bill Clinton in a warning to the party that currently has unified control of government.

In an email from his Save America PAC, Trump tweeted the article’s headline: ‘The Payback for Mar-a-Lago Will Be Brutal.’ 

Former President Donald Trump shared a column that referenced ‘payback’ in forthcoming investigations should Republicans gain power

She posits that the Trump probe, which she brands as political and breaking norms on ‘sensitive’ investigations close to an election, could come back at Democrats if Republicans take charge.      

‘Mr. Garland’s raid has made even the highest political figures fair prosecutorial game, and the media’s new standard is that the department can’t be questioned as it goes about ensuring ‘no one is above the law,” she writes about AG Merrick Garland.

‘Let’s see how that holds when a future Republican Justice Department starts raiding the homes of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, James Comey, and John Brennan,’ she writes, referencing Obama’s former attorney general, the FBI director Trump fired, and former CIA director who has gone after Trump on Twitter.

She also wrote that the FBI’s raid could redound to Trump’s benefit, following polls showing an uptick against potential GOP rivals.

‘If anything, a perceived political persecution of Mr. Trump could help him to a second term. And he would be even more unrestrained as the 47th president than he was as the 45th. A second Trump administration wouldn’t have the caliber of grown-ups who signed up for the first tour. 

Strassel predicts other forms of ‘payback,’ referencing Trump’s first impeachment, after he asked Ukraine for dirt on Joe and Hunter Biden during the 2016 campaign.

She also referenced a Hunter Biden probe, which Republicans have already threatened to launch if they take power. Senate Republicans have already produced reports on the president’s son, but only with minority powers. 

‘Payback could come even sooner. Democrats set a new low with their Ukrainian impeachment circus, and a GOP House next year might be up for a reprise. Get ready for a few more select committees—perhaps excluding the minority party, as the Democrats effectively did with the Jan. 6 committee—to investigate Mr. Garland’s politicized department or Hunter Biden ‘s finances.’

Trump posted on the FBI’s raid of his home at Mar-a-Lago

‘Let’s see how that holds when a future Republican Justice Department starts raiding the homes of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, James Comey, and John Brennan,’ wrote Kimberly Strassel in the Wall Street Journal, following the raid on Mar-a-Lago in search of classified materials after Trump’s office returned 15 boxes of items

Trump, who blasted the FBI throughout his term, shared an article about the ‘Fascist Bureau of Investigation’

Trump tweeted an article in the American Spector that referenced the ‘Fascist Bureau of Invstigation’

She also referenced the clash over composing the Jan. 6th Committee. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and the GOP boycotted after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi nixed his proposed panel members. 

‘Watch them subpoena sitting Democratic representatives, as the Jan. 6 committee did to Republicans. Reps. Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar and Eric Swalwell may find themselves on the back bench with a new Republican majority eager to follow Mrs. Pelosi’s example and strip the opposing team’s members of committee assignments,’ Strassel wrote.

Trump also used his Truth Social site to link to an article headlined ‘The Fascist Bureau of Investigation.’ It was penned by Jeffrey Lord, a conservative commentator and former pro-Trump commentator.

Lord was fired by the network in 2017 after posting ‘Sieg Heil!’ in a comment he said was meant to mock a critic rather than promote the Nazi slogan. 

Trump regularly spoke about locking up Clinton during the 2016 campaign. He fired Comey over his role in the Russia probe, which Trump branded a ‘witch hunt.’

Trump also went after Clinton immediately after the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, pointing to her email scandal and home server, amid reporters he had stored highly classified material at his Florida home.

‘Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 emails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress,’ Trump wrote. ‘Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable.’

Comey found in July 2016 that Clinton and aides had been ‘extremely careless’ with classified material , but concluded no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case. 

The attacks came on a day when former Vice President Mike Pence said Republicans should hold the FBI and DOJ accountable ‘without attacking the rank-and-file law enforcement personnel.’

‘Our party stands with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line at the federal and state and local level, and these attacks on the FBI must stop,’ he said. 

Those comments came on a day when former House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney lost her Wyoming primary after voting to impeach Trump after the Capitol riot. 

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