Trump's "Retribution List" Includes "Hundreds of Americans"
There is an enemies list. It doesn't get more urgent than that.
Think it can’t happen here?
Fascist regimes need enemies.
Since he was ejected from the White House three years ago, the twice-impeached convicted felon former president has anointed himself his supporters’ “retribution”.
And a wanna-be authoritarian seeking retribution needs an enemies list.
Well, we just learned that enemies list is out there, and you could be on it. So could I. If we’re not yet, we may be in the not-so-distant future.
Trump’s so-called “Secretary of Retribution,” former military officer Ivan Raiklin, has reported he holds a hit list of 350 “deep state” individuals targeted for assassination should Donald Trump retake the White House in the fall.
Reporters for Raw Story, CNN, The Washington Post, and Reuters are being threatened with a tactic known as “swatting,” wherein police SWAT teams descend on people’s homes following erroneous reports about activities such bomb threats, hostage situations, or murder occurring at those addresses.
This harassment tactic has already resulted in several deaths, including a failed bill to outlaw it at the federal level, the “Interstate Swatting Hoax Act,” introduced by Congresswoman Katherine Clark in 2015.
Raiklin posted a video to X in which he states:
Expect to see live-streamed swatting raids of every single individual on that Deep State target list, because the precedence has already been set.
Look at my entire Deep State target list. That is the beginning. This is the scratching of the surface of who is going to be criminalized for their treason, okay?
Raiklin claims to be already recruiting “Constitutional sheriffs” to execute this plan (and the individuals implicated in it). He also plans to dox federal agents and their families.
Who’s on that list?
According to Raw Story investigative reporters Jordan Green and Mark Alesia:
[It] includes numerous Democratic and Republican elected officials; FBI and intelligence officials; members of the House Select January 6 Committee; U.S. Capitol Police officers and civilian employees; witnesses in Trump’s two impeachment trials and the Jan. 6 committee hearings; and journalists from publications ranging from CNN and the Washington Post to Reuters and Raw Story — all considered political enemies of Trump.
Ivan Raiklin explains in his X post that some members of Congress have the list, including “likely” House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the now-disbanded House Select January 6 Committee, warned Congressional members’ findings are “deadly serious,” explaining:
A retired U.S. military officer has drawn up a “Deep State target list” of public officials he considers traitors, along with our family members and staff. His hit list is a vigilante death warrant for hundreds of Americans and a clear and present danger to the survival of American democracy and freedom.
We could be among those “hundreds of Americans,” according to Raiklin:
Deep State target list is only the beginning. This is the scratching of the surface of who is going to be criminalized for their treason, okay?
Fascism is coming to America if we do not prevent it.
It’s up to us to repudiate it by voting for candidates who reflect policies dedicated to upholding the rule of law and perpetuating democratic ideals, not strongman autocracy.
If we fail, if Donald Trump regains the levers of power, and if we do not regain control of the House of Representatives and hold onto control of the Senate, we will be facing the creeping end of democracy.
This is not hyperbole.
Repeat: There is an enemies list.
It doesn’t get more urgent than that.