Former US President Donald Trump has set off a social media firestorm by issuing an apparent threat against unidentified enemies just one day after he was indicted for the third time in four months.
“If you go after me, I’m coming after you,” Trump said on Friday in a post on his Truth Social platform. He offered no context or explanation for the statement, letting supporters and critics alike infer his meaning for themselves.
Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to the latest criminal charges against him, four felonies related to an alleged conspiracy to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. After leaving the federal courthouse in Washington, he claimed that politically motivated prosecutors were going after him because Biden couldn’t beat him in a 2024 election rematch.
“This is a very sad day for America,” Trump told reporters before boarding his plane. He added, “This was never supposed to happen in America. This is a persecution of the person that’s leading by very, very substantial numbers in the Republican primary and leading Biden by a lot, so if you can’t beat him, you persecute him. We can’t let this happen in America.”
Trump issued his cryptic threat on the same day that his campaign released a new ad alleging that Biden had assembled a “cast of unscrupulous accomplices to get Trump.” That group, which the ad called “the fraud squad,” includes Jack Smith, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel who’s handling the two federal cases against Trump, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who filed charges against Trump in April for allegedly making false claims in his New York business filings.
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While Trump supporters interpreted his latest message to mean “the gloves are off,” and that he will take revenge on his enemies when he’s elected president again in 2024, detractors suggested that he was trying to scare anyone who would try to punish him for his alleged crimes.
Magistrate Judge Moxila Updadhyaya warned Trump on Thursday that the most important condition of his release on bond was that he mustn’t commit “any new crimes” while awaiting trial, which could lead to him being jailed or sentenced more harshly if convicted. According to NPR, she told Trump that it’s a crime to “influence a juror or try to threaten or bribe a witness or retaliate against anyone connected to the case.”
Smith also filed dozens of felony charges related to Trump’s alleged mishandling of state secrets. On Friday, Trump waived his right to appear at an arraignment for the updated indictment in that case. Smith slapped Trump with three additional charges late last month for allegedly plotting to delete potentially incriminating security camera footage before FBI agents raided his home to gather evidence in the classified documents case. He pleaded not guilty in June to the 37 previously filed charges in that case. Friday’s filing said he will also plead not guilty to the new charges.
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Trump’s history with Hillary would suggest this is more hot air to rile up his base for the gulag.
The Fraud Squad? I would have named them: The Coon Goons.
How can a judge “warn” Trump that he musn’t “commit any more crimes” when Trump has yet to be convicted on any one of the multiple charges that have been filed against him? What happened to the presumption of innocence in judicial proceedings? This is judicial corruption and misconduct.
My thought as well.
Q was that statement planned to allow Trump to challenge the judge / court at a later date?
Everybody’s fishing. Me? I’m waiting for hunting season.
We all sense this ends like the 1860s instead of the 2020 election.
Worse is the unbroken pattern through history about all Democratic Republics ending in 250 years and becoming Military Dictatorships.
To quote Jerry Clower, “Just shoot up here amongst us! One of us has to have some relief!”
You have to remember the professional script writers are on strike.
k31
I see YOU’RE still working though.
Too many people prefer Moloch to Trump.
IT’S THE SAME FUCKING PICTURE!
Idle threats from impotent cucks have never been effective. They only lead to worse outcomes.
If you’re going to do something, do it. Don’t talk about it.
If you’re not going to do something, don’t be a liar.
Threats only cause the issuer problems…immediately or down the road…or both.
Threat also identify you as a potential suspect in whatever occurs.
Better to be an ostensibly uninvolved party.
That’s another way to look at it. It all comes down to the same truth. Threats are stupid in every circumstance. They telegraph your impotence.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Apparently we have 8 advocates of idle threats here. Why am I not surprised?
Similar to “I’ll sue you for everything you got”. Do it!
What a bunch of baloney Trump and every one of these political gutless wonder pigs wallowing in mud full of their own excrement. Living a life where the daily routine is , “I’ll sue”, “I’ll sue”, or whatever threat.
Looking forward to the day when all these slimy actors are dead from old age or in a home dribbling pablum because this is boring as fuk.
New ones will pop up like whack-a-moles.
Riser- At this point new assholes are welcome. Living in the doldrums with Bidet and Trump is like being stuck in a well with no way out. How many times can you beat a dead horse? When it comes to these worthless shills, the answer seems to be until they are dead or stroked out in a home.
I think we may end up with a AI entity like V’ger on Star Trek one day in lieu of putrid actor puppets but the controllers stay the same.
More likely we will end up with HAL.
No pun , I can tell you are very excited about the upcoming so called debates. SOS certainly comes to mind.
The nature of the beast. Learnt that in Junior College.
This is communism in action in America and although I don’t want Trump in 2024, I took an oath to support the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic ; and if the WDC, NYC and Atlanta DAs can have communist Show Trials against Trump, they can do it against any White Conservative; this is a Bill of Rights issue to fight about if necessary. The commie DAs are inadvertently doing God’s Will; good Americans are fed up with a dozen different serious rampant growing government crimes going unpunished, and Trump could become the spark that finally starts the Counter Revolution.
I’m curious and I’m not criticizing you, who do you think could replace Trump that the media and the entire establishment (of everything) wouldn’t do the exact same thing to? You say you don’t want Trump in ’24. Do you think someone in the current field would be more effective or possibly less ineffective as Trump has been? Trump is poking his finger into the chest of the largest most effective killing machine ever known to humanity. David and Goliath, anyone? I don’t think David is going to win this time around though but we’ll see.
It is going to take someone who will come right out and declare a week of National Strike on the steps of the Capitol and make DC use force to end it. Sides will be gathered. Then the tsunami begins.
But, but, but… then I wont be able to afford that new bass boat & flat screen to watch sport-ball that month.
So? Kill a fucking Commie and take HIS boat! This ain’t rocket surgery.
Commies dont have good bass boats, only little dinghys.
I’ll have to take your word on that account.
We’ll all find out for ourselves eventually.
Looking forward to testing your theory!
Happy hunting!
Good point. All the worldly stuff may be in jeopardy.
. . .and this time – we bring our guns.
Any implied comparison of Trump to David is equally as absurd as whacked out evangelicals that compared King Trump to King Cyrus.
“If you infringe one more time then we will really be big mad!”
Lololol
They masked the kids and most of you let them.
They told you to shut down your family business and most of you did it.
They stole multiple elections right out in the open. You took that beating like a servile dog and then lined up again for it in 2022.
The “communist show trails” have been ongoing for years at this point. There are already hundreds of J6ers rotting in jail precisely because of Orange Judas. So American heroes, like former green beret Jeremy Brown, being incarcerated for nearly a decade despite not waking into the Capitol, that isn’t enough to piss “patriots” off?
But your spray tanned idol allowing himself to be persecuted by continually ceding legitimacy to a patently corrupt process is the final straw?
Sure it is bud👌
Trump is not “ceding legitimacy” to anybody or anything.
Where do you get that idea?
He’s fighting back tooth and nail.
He’s fighting back “tooth and nail” by bending over Alvin Bragg? This entire charade is a patently illegal farce. By even going into the courtroom as a former executive, you are de facto consenting to the idea that they have a right to do this to you. Some judge issues a warrant for your arrest for crimes you never committed, in a state you don’t live in, and you show up why exactly?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-indicted-ron-desantis-extradition-florida/
DeScamtis offered Trump protection from these admittedly egregious legal persecutions. Since this is all scripted crap anyways, Trump didn’t take him up on the offer and instead went into court and pled not guilty to crimes that he never committed so we could have this whole martyrdom melodrama.
He could have pardoned himself and every J6’er in his way out the door. Unfortunately he was too busy pardoning crack dealers and Jared Kushner’s dad.
Why?
Even assuming he’s actually on our side and not participating in this legal kabuki theatre, then our supposed leader is so retarded he didn’t even exercise his legitimate powers to save himself from potentially rotting in jail for the rest of his life. Maybe you can rationalize a billionaire world leader being stupid enough to not use his powers in such a way. I refuse to make such excuses for a man who has shown he is worthy of none.
Honestly I blame it all on Trump’s mommy because she said little Donnie can do no wrong. Fact.
Its theatre, he isn’t fighting anything. Its all scripted shiny and keep the hopium alive. We’ll get them this time by voting moar harder. Oh wait, bobby is our man, msm hate him so he must be the threat, lets all support him. Send cash today.
Always milking the stooopids for their cash.
No doubt, politics is WWE for those who fancy themselves intellectuals. And masochists.
Orange Judas didn’t wipe out enough of our families for some of us to give a shit I guess. Let’s have Trump back for round two(three?) of the Genocide Olympics, see who can rack up the highest score I guess. Operation Kulak has got nothing on Operation Warp Speed baby.
You don’t hang out with Jeffrey Epstein and Roy Cohn’s protege Roger Stone for 20+ years without knowing what’s up. Period.
The real heroes get fed to the commies so they can assassinate, er I mean accidentally shoot down your plane (RIP Congressman Larry McDonald). If you are a real threat you get whacked way before you ever rise to a position like President.
It is all right here to get started. No need to re-invent the wheel as they say down this way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals
Another good read on how to get a party going is Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler was a lot of things but one thing for sure he understood the making of a political powerhouse. He wrote that he did not want really that many hard-core members, just supporters. And that was exactly what he did, a shadow government ready to replace the actual one.
Most claim to know all about the book, very few have read it, it is quite interesting.
Ginger–In the case of the USA, Hitler has been turned into your shadow government, aka the deep state.
Since Trump has ALL the ‘right enemies’, I ask everyone, is that a fake to fool US patriots into supporting Trump? Who should we support if not Trump?
SamFox
No Body. Would that be a hoot if No One showed up for the rigged elections? Then there would be absolutely no speculation about dead votes and other election abnormalities.
GVet, Glad to see Larry McDonald isn’t totally forgotten. He wanted to have the Bank of England’s ‘Federal’ Reserve investigated.
So, I ask those who dis Trump: What is YOUR answer regarding what POTUS we should vote for?
Lotta Trump critics, few to no alternatives offered.
Kennedy talks a lot of good stuff. If you look a little at him you will see he is a ‘climate change’ proponent.
Me, I will stick with Trump. Ya’ll can make up your own minds.
SamFox
https://search.brave.com/search?q=rfk+is+a+climate+change+activist&source=web
Personally I like President Trump, went to see him in Fayetteville,NC. But he picked so many losers like Milley (Milley was right there beside him in Fayetteville) and Pence and a load of so many others. He should have won but it was stolen by those very people.
He had his chance, the only chance now is somebody that would unite after the rebellion starts. There might even be a Mexican out there with the power to do it. I know of no rebublicans.
I swear its about like that song from Thunderdome “We Don’t Need Another Hero”.
My answer for certain is no man.
Larry McDonald killed it. Then they killed him.
Larry McDonald killed on flight KAL 007.
I once stumbled into an American Opinion Bookstore, owned by a local banker, in 1980. I had no idea at the time.
You can’t cede what you never fucking had.
I see you have an opinion…how refreshing.
If a Trump Selection again by WEF is God’s will it is God’s will. However, I cannot support anyone that is supportive of man on man sodomy or drag queens or anything associated with the LGBT agenda.
You took an oath to support the constitution…yet let me guess you support Trump’s attempted and unconstitutional attempted coup on Jan 6?
Moxila Updadhyaya Get Your Ya Yas doesn’t even pretend to know how the US justice system is supposed to work. “Don’t commit any more crimes?” Trump hasn’t been convicted of anything (yet).
Magistrate Judge Moxila Updadhyaya warned Trump on Thursday that the most important condition of his release on bond was that he mustn’t commit “any new crimes” while awaiting trial,
Sounds like the judge already convicted him-“any new crimes” indeed.
“And most of all you must stop beating your wife.”
Yeah,i hope to vote for Trump. However,i wouldn’t be his food taster for 20K a month tax free. Dead Man Walking.
Wow! I got goosebumps. That was one of the best trailers I have ever seen.
Rarely are sequels as good as the original but this next season will be the exception for sure.
(SPOILER ALERT. Click away now if you want to be surprised later)
Season 2, episode 2: Magaman slays the GOP primary pretenders.
Season 2, episode 5 Dark Brandon goes down in flames as Big Mike grabs center stage.
Season 2, episode 8: Immediately after the outer space aliens and Big Mike announce plans to end the global drought and stop high capacity assault rifle bullets from harming children, Vlad the Bad nukes the Zelenskerator in Ukraine causing Magaman to blame Ferris Mueller’s Operation Crossfire Hurricane!
Hold on to your hats folks! This deal is about to get seriously reality TV real where nothing is really real except the global civilizational consequences! Don’t miss it!
“If you go after me, I’m coming after you”…I like the way Trump thinks.
I think the way he thinks (sometimes), too, but not the way he says what he thinks. The DOJ is now trying to enjoin Trump’s team from releasing any info (from discovery) to those not directly involved in his trial. Their argument (now that he’s said “I’m coming after you”) is that Trump will sic his followers on witnesses to harm or intimidate them. Trump fucked up again.
There could be a LOT of evidence of the Deep State setting up Jan 6’er’s. Somebody gave Ray Epps his orders, for example. If Trump is prohibited from releasing any such evidence that his side uncovers, he won’t be able to expose Pelosi and the Deep State for having entrapped a bunch of MAGA grannies. And if Trump releases suck evidence despite being ordered not to, that’s just one more “crime” (contempt of court). The guy’s his own worst enemy.
All true, I wouldn’t emulate Trump’s approach…I merely identify with his sentiment.
Spastic fakestream media exaggerates again. How is Trump going to ‘attack’ those attacking him? Looks to me like he will sue them & expose their games, lies, conspiracies & the true insurrection.
One of the fascist dimm tactics is to rig elections. Part of their play in election rigging is the mailing out of thousands of blank ballots. They capture a LOT of those, fill out enough to give them the lead & stuff them in the ballot boxes.
Biden got enough BALLOTS to ‘win’ but he did not get enough real people votes. Thin left fascist fraud has been going on for years. The Repub/conservative ends the day way ahead, as did Trump. Then ‘miracle’ like, the dimm candidate wins in the early morning just hours after the polls close AND honest poll watchers are sent away or have gone home.
All the demon Smith & other persecutors charging Trump are in on what is the true insurrection, just like books Rules For Radicals & Strategy by Cloward & Piven call for. There is a LARGE selection of leftist books along these lines. The leftists are the ones obstructing elections, like they are doing as they put up fake charge after fake charge against Trump & lie to the rest of the country.
Their mail out ballots to capture & fake is only one of the dimm left’s tactics. The persecution of J6’rs, us patriots & Trump is another. Fake stream media carries their water as their propaganda arm.
OK. Many of you don’t like Trump. That’s your choice. So who do YOU want to vote for?
SamFox
Uh…I don’t want to vote for anyone. You got a problem with that, Sam?
It’s a Big Club, and you’ll NEVER be in it, so what is the difference?
Feeling “included” isn’t worth the price of my soul.
Sell yours cheap if it seems prudent to you. Who am I to judge?
Throw a monkey wrench in the whole freaking thing. No Body.
Tex- you can file all that mess under BAD entertainment for the mouth breathers. Join me in making your own reality . I’m listening to CCR “Bad Moon Rising” and I just don’t give two shits about any of it.
When you just let it all go like a bad habit, you start to breath and really live a life worth living. F’em….F’em all.