Former President Donald Trump sat down with Univision for an interview in which he promised his second term would be all about going after his enemies list.
In a leaked transcript provided to Semafor, Trump justified his next campaign against his perceived enemies, saying he would pursue the same course he did in his first time but further.
“Yeah. If they do this, and they’ve already done it, but if they follow through on this, yeah, it could certainly happen in reverse,” he rambled, justifying his future retribution. “It could certainly happen in reverse. What they’ve done is they’ve released the genie out of the box.”
“They have done something that allows the next party — I mean, if somebody, 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.’ They’d be out of business, they’d be out of the election.”
During the 2016 election, brief Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) bragged to Fox’s Sean Hannity that Republicans were able to weaponize Congress to bring down Hillary Clinton's poll numbers.
"Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping," said McCarthy.
After being elected, Trump wanted to prosecute Clinton, The New York Times reported in Nov. 2018. He then sought to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey, who refused to give him the "loyalty" he sought.
It was then reported that former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe as well as Comey, were subjected to rare invasive IRS audits that found nothing. In fact, McCabe overpaid his taxes.
When it became clear Joe Biden was going to run for president in 2020, Rudy Giuliani went to Ukraine in an attempt to dig up "dirt" on the Biden family. A flood of conspiracies followed that continues today.
Trump went on to say that he would have prevented the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas by having a "deal" with Iran. Trump left the deal that was in place with Iran.