Lara Trump Threatens ‘Four Years of Scorched Earth’ If Trump Retakes Power

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  1. What does she know of scorched earth? She seems rather privileged to me.

  2. That it’s even a possibility at this point that Trump regains power is insanity.

  3. > Presidential candidates usually promise that everybody will be happy if they win. One of the historically unusual aspects of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is that he is promising to punish his political enemies in the event he gains power. **“I am your warrior, I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution,” he vowed last year.**
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    > Trump has been persuaded to turn down the volume on the threats of vengeance, but his allies are continuing to advance this message. Lara Trump, the candidate’s daughter-in-law whom he installed as co-chair of the Republican National Committee because the incumbent merely cast doubt on the 2020 election without going so far as to conclusively say Trump won, unleashed this terrifying promise:

    > > He showed us a whole lot that we didn’t know was going on — within the media, within Washington, D.C. He exposed a lot of people. So they have to do everything they can to keep him out of that White House ’cause they know Donald Trump gets in for four more years, the jig is up for them. The gloves are off. There are no holds barred here. He is going full-throttle. He’s not worried about winning another election. It’s four years of scorched earth when Donald Trump retakes the White House.

    > […]

    > As a candidate, **he’s promising pardons for the violent offenders who assaulted police officers** in a coup attempt and **manically insisting presidents should be given “total immunity” to commit crimes while in office.** (He’s made five posts on this theme Friday morning alone.)
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    > Trump’s conservative apologists either ignore all this or wave it away by pointing to his first term, when Trump’s attempts to weaponize government against his enemies proved ineffectual or were thwarted by uncooperative appointees.
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    > But this isn’t some obstacle Trump is unaware of. The candidate and his inner circle are deeply aware of his inability to crush his enemies during his first term. They are engaged in serious planning efforts to make sure that doesn’t happen again. Now, it’s possible they will fail. **But to ignore their plain intention to turn the government into a weapon of vengeance against a slew of enemies, ranging from political figures to media, is to gamble with the future of the republic.**

  6. Who reads this as an undecided and says to themselves, sign me up?

  7. The GOP as a formal party has absolutely abandoned democracy.

  8. hey Lara, your music sucks. Stop trying to make it happen, Taylor Grift over here, thinking anybody gives a shit.

  9. So that’s the selling point? Elect Trump because he’ll go scorched earth for 4 years? That’s what his voters want? Insanity

  13. I’m sorry but anyone who hears what these fucking assholes are saying and still thinks to themselves that voting for Trump sounds like a good idea is a fucking idiot.

  14. Boy, nothing gets me up in the morning and ready to go than someone saying “we are going to destroy your country ’cause we can’t own it”.

    Hades calling. Your spot in hell is waiting.

  15. Four? Try twenty. We know damn well he and his Mafia family aren’t going to give up power until it’s taken from them by force. 

  18. Imagine if the left made statements like that ?? Haha gop is so lost . What are you doing to help people??

  21. Conservative voters get more joy out of seeing others hurt and unhappy than seeing their own lives improved.

    But to be fair, destroying other people’s lives is one thing the government can accomplish. It cannot seem to pass any bills that directly improve people’s lives.

  22. Trump’s one and only policy – destroy The Enemy, even if The Enemy looks like your family, friends, and neighbors. 

  23. The best part of this: it will be the conservatives that will suffer the most.

    His follower put it best; “He is not hurting the right people.”

    Yeah, no shit.

    He is too fucking stupid to figure out how to do that. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were LAUGHING in his face, on live TV, when the government shutdown. He openly declared he was taking responsibility. And both Nancy and Chuck were like “Wait.. what… lol? Ok!”

    Idiot with idiot followers and idiot conservatives that will vote for this idiot.

    You are going to suffer – the rest of us are going to handle Trump and your dumb asses like we did since 2016.

  24. I wonder if she had to bang Trump too. I know she’s married to his son but you can’t tell me he doesn’t have a “I’ll do her first, then you can have her” mindset

  25. It’s like conservatives are on a downhill slide to the ravine…

  26. As an American and a veteran, I am so disheartened that there are people there cheering when she said that. Literal cheering. So broken.

  28. People need to wake up; you can’t have a president who’s gonna step into office and start changing things via executive order to impose his will. Then use the DOJ and the Media to target his political opponents. We’re really a step removed from a dictatorship.

  29. Yeah, but that’s not anything close to what presidents should do or something someone who is running for president should be concerned with.

    A president should be concerned with making the lives better for all Americans, not being a petty immature asshole who is in the highest administrative position he could be in to get revenge on who he identifies as his enemies.

  30. Why are open calls for the authoritarian destruction of American not taken more seriously? This crap should be grounds for arrest. Sorry, but our “free speech” rules are way way too lenient when you can constantly advocate the violent overthrow of the government and violent attacks on people.

  31. Trump supporters – *Oh, relax. That’s just his way of saying he’ll own the Libs.*

    They spin everything he says to rationalize their support for him.

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