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Mon Aug 25, 2025, 02:16 PM Aug 2025

Trump's so obsessed with his revenge that he's openly using it to justify future DOJ raids on political rivals & critics

Acyn @Acyn 22m
Reporter: Are more raids coming like the one on John Bolton's house?

Trump: I don't know. You have to ask the DOJ. They did a raid on my house. They took away everything that was not pinned down, and they took away some of that too. They started that.


...consider that this is in retaliation for his own arrest and prosecution for his theft of national security documents; the whereabouts of several files never publicly determined; and recall Kash Patel's 'Enemies List' published in his book:

Who Is on Kash Patel 'Enemies List'?

Michael Atkinson – Former Inspector General of the Intelligence Community
Lloyd Austin – Secretary of Defense under President Biden
Brian Auten – Supervisory Intelligence Analyst, FBI
James Baker – Former FBI General Counsel and Twitter Deputy General Counsel
Bill Barr – Former Attorney General under Trump
John Bolton – Former National Security Adviser under Trump
Stephen Boyd – Former Chief of Legislative Affairs, FBI
Joe Biden – President of the United States
John Brennan – Former CIA Director under Obama
John Carlin – Former DOJ National Security Division Head under Trump
Eric Ciaramella – Former National Security Council Staffer
Pat Cipollone – Former White House Counsel under Trump
James Clapper – Former Director of National Intelligence under Obama
Hillary Clinton – Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate
James Comey – Former FBI Director
Elizabeth Dibble – Former Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, London
Mark Esper – Former Secretary of Defense under Trump
Alyssa Farah – Former Trump Director of Strategic Communications
Evelyn Farkas – Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under Obama
Sarah Isgur Flores – Former DOJ Communications Head under Trump
Merrick Garland – Attorney General under Biden
Stephanie Grisham – Former Trump Press Secretary
Kamala Harris – Vice President under Biden
Gina Haspel – CIA Director under Trump
Fiona Hill – Former National Security Council Staffer
Curtis Heide – FBI Agent
Eric Holder – Former Attorney General under Obama
Robert Hur – Special Counsel for Biden classified documents investigation
Cassidy Hutchinson – Former Aide to Trump's Chief of Staff
Nina Jankowicz – Former Director of the Disinformation Governance Board under Biden
Lois Lerner – Former IRS Director under Obama
Loretta Lynch – Former Attorney General under Obama
Charles Kupperman – Former Trump Deputy National Security Adviser
Gen. Kenneth Mackenzie – Former CENTCOM Commander
Andrew McCabe – Former FBI Deputy Director
Ryan McCarthy – Former Secretary of the Army under Trump
Mary McCord – Former DOJ National Security Official under Obama
Denis McDonough – Barack Obama's one-time Chief of Staff
Gen. Mark Milley – Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Lisa Monaco – Deputy Attorney General under Biden
Sally Moyer – Former Supervisory Lawyer at the FBI.
Robert Mueller – Former FBI Director and Special Counsel
Bruce Ohr – Former Associate Deputy Attorney General
Nellie Ohr – Former CIA employee
Lisa Page – Former FBI Counsel
Pat Philbin – Former Trump Deputy White House Counsel
John Podesta – Former Counselor to Obama and Biden Climate Adviser
Samantha Power – Former Ambassador to the U.N. under Obama
Bill Priestap – Former FBI Counterintelligence Official
Susan Rice – Former National Security Adviser under Obama
Rod Rosenstein – Former Deputy Attorney General under Trump
Peter Strzok – Former FBI Official
Jake Sullivan – National Security Adviser under Biden
Michael Sussmann – Former Lawyer for the Democratic National Committee
Miles Taylor – Former DHS Official under Trump
Timothy Thibault – Former FBI Agent
Andrew Weissmann – Former Mueller Investigation Deputy
Alexander Vindman – Former National Security Council Director
Christopher Wray – FBI Director under Trump and Biden
Sally Yates – Former Acting Attorney General



...I think we're going to finally find out what the actual import of presidential statements' is, anticipating filings pointing to Trump's undue influence in lawsuits, and defenses citing these amazing confessions from Trump, along with other similar attacks he's made against people in the past as his transparently compromised DOJ, ostensibly directed and directly influenced by him to prosecute, minions like Bondi and Patel dutifully bringing the weight of the federal government down against these private citizens on his behalf.
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