A Trump Executive Order Sets Out What Could Be a Road Map for Retribution

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-22 00:13:09 | Updated at 2025-01-24 12:55:36 2 days ago

A Trump Executive Order Sets Out What Could Be a Road Map for Retribution
The New York Times ^ | Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti | Jan. 21, 2025, 5:29 p.m. ET

Posted on 01/21/2025 3:53:29 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Since his election victory, President Trump has said he would not seek retribution against his perceived enemies. “I’m not looking to go into the past,” he said last month on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Retribution will be through success.”

But in an executive order he signed on Monday night, Mr. Trump made clear that he has every intention to seek out and possibly punish government officials in the Justice Department and America’s intelligence agencies as a way to “correct past misconduct” against him and his supporters.

It would be justice, the order said, against officials from the Biden administration who carried out an “unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process.”

This is what retribution could look like during the second Trump presidency: payback dressed up in the language of victimhood.

That executive order, titled “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” came amid a blizzard of other actions on Monday evening.

They included a highly unusual separate order that stripped the security clearances of dozens of former intelligence officials whom Mr. Trump has viewed as his political enemies. Another order gave the White House authority to grant immediate top-secret security clearance to any official for up to six months, circumventing the traditional background process managed by the F.B.I. and the intelligence community.

Taken together, these actions reveal the beginnings of a far more methodical approach by Mr. Trump to root out his perceived enemies within the government compared with his first term. Mr. Trump even used his Inaugural Address to raise the issue, saying that the scales of justice would be “rebalanced” after “the vicious, violent and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government.”

Charles Kupperman, a deputy national security adviser to Mr. Trump during his first term, said he viewed the executive order as the...

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: newyorkslimes; weaponization

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If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.

You haven't done anything wrong, have you?

To: E. Pluribus Unum

2 posted on 01/21/2025 3:54:54 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possiWe neve hear of gambling paying off $billioble.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Funny how the NY Slimes, and the rest of the Democrat lie machine ran around screaming, “If he didn’t do anything wrong he has nothing to be afraid of” and “No one is above the law” when Trump was the target.

3 posted on 01/21/2025 3:55:31 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Slimes is really starting to get on my nerves by referring to President Trump, as Mr. Trump.

4 posted on 01/21/2025 3:59:05 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

When so many people were hurt, killed and deprived of liberty, you can believe there will be retribution.

And the Slimes is on the hit list.

5 posted on 01/21/2025 4:00:42 PM PST by Salvavida (NS)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

When so many people were hurt, killed and deprived of liberty, you can believe there will be retribution.

And the Slimes is on the hit list.

6 posted on 01/21/2025 4:00:42 PM PST by Salvavida (NS)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Media takes any effort to clean up Government by a Conservative as “retribution” for what they did to Trump. But President Biden’s actions are just cleaning up government from people do not think the same. That cleaning action requires the use of the governmental sledgehammer to beat your opponents into submission! Because all that do not have their mind straight according to liberals, must be beaten into submission….

This also begs the question, if there were no illegal attacks on Donald Trump, then how can you call something retribution?

7 posted on 01/21/2025 4:02:34 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

The NYT says this like it’s a bad thing.

8 posted on 01/21/2025 4:02:53 PM PST by oldplayer

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Getting the career slime out of positions of influence is NOT punishment or retribution. It’s the right thing to do. Where was the media when Obama and the Biden administration (but I repeat myself) went after officers in the military they didn’t like?

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Every headline I see posted here (not sure why) from the Slimes makes me laugh.

10 posted on 01/21/2025 4:10:51 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)

To: ifinnegan

Every headline I see posted here (not sure why) from the Slimes makes me laugh.

That's why I post them under the topic "humor."

11 posted on 01/21/2025 4:11:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)

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