Trump’s Latest Campaign Pledge: Revenge

For months now, Trump has vowed to rebuild the Justice Department top to bottom with a cabal of his allies and has suggested that he would install a special prosecutor to investigate Biden and his family.

“By weaponizing the DOJ against his Political Opponent, ME, Joe has opened a giant Pandora’s Box,” Trump said in a social media post in January.

The overtures have grown more frequent and specific in the aftermath of his guilty verdict, with the former president now repeatedly referring to himself as a “political prisoner.”

Earlier this week, on Tuesday, Trump said in an interview with conservative Newsmax that “it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them.”

Notably, the idea of political retribution sits at the heart of the presidential immunity case before the Supreme Court, which, among other things, wrestles with the idea of whether a president can be prosecuted for actions taken, publicly or privately, while they are command in chief.

The case is specifically related to the four-count criminal indictment of Trump, which accuses the presumed Republican presidential nominee of attempting to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss and undermine America’s democracy. The justices are set to decide the case in the coming weeks.