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Kid Berwyn

(23,328 posts)
1. GOP has no shame, like the NAZIs they are.
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 02:57 PM
9 hrs ago
Trump’s ‘Secretary of Retribution’

A retired soldier turned election denier is keeping a list of the former president’s “deep state” enemies.

By Shane Harris
The Atlantic, November 4, 2026

Excerpt…

Retribution is Raiklin’s watchword these days. He calls himself Trump’s “secretary of retribution,” settling scores from the first term and ready to do the same in a potential second. His battles aren’t only with military leaders. After Trump lost the presidency in 2020, Raiklin suggested that Vice President Mike Pence could reject electors from the states that Joe Biden had won, on the grounds that they might be fraudulent. Those ideas were later taken up by John Eastman, a lawyer who has been indicted in Arizona for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results there. (He has pleaded not guilty.) Raiklin may be one of the intellectual founders of Trump’s election denialism.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-secretary-of-retribution-ivan-raiklin/680494/

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