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Punkass Ivan Raiklin tries to start something with Michael Fanone: (Original Post)
Kingofalldems
Yesterday
OP
I've seen this guy sitting in the audience at several hearings in the past few years.
yellow dahlia
18 hrs ago
#9
Even if he wears a suit, he still looks like a prehistoric knuckle-dragger.
allegorical oracle
Yesterday
#4
There would be a world record set for the fastest time a GoFundMe goal was hit......
chiffondior
21 hrs ago
#8
Kid Berwyn
(23,347 posts)1. GOP has no shame, like the NAZIs they are.
Trumps Secretary of Retribution
A retired soldier turned election denier is keeping a list of the former presidents deep state enemies.
By Shane Harris
The Atlantic, November 4, 2026
Excerpt
Retribution is Raiklins watchword these days. He calls himself Trumps secretary of retribution, settling scores from the first term and ready to do the same in a potential second. His battles arent 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 Trumps election denialism.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-secretary-of-retribution-ivan-raiklin/680494/
A retired soldier turned election denier is keeping a list of the former presidents deep state enemies.
By Shane Harris
The Atlantic, November 4, 2026
Excerpt
Retribution is Raiklins watchword these days. He calls himself Trumps secretary of retribution, settling scores from the first term and ready to do the same in a potential second. His battles arent 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 Trumps election denialism.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-secretary-of-retribution-ivan-raiklin/680494/
Traildogbob
(12,653 posts)2. I wish Fanone and Dunn
Would have released 6 years of rage on his ass right there in the well.
Kid Berwyn
(23,347 posts)6. Me three. Raiklin would feint.
Playing possum often is NAZI.
yellow dahlia
(4,895 posts)9. I've seen this guy sitting in the audience at several hearings in the past few years.
He is often visible several rows back. It caught my eye. I thought he looked like a Russian spy or Bond villain. I didn't know who he was.
Creepy psycho. Yikes!
C_U_L8R
(49,025 posts)3. They are that desperate to change the headlines.
So pathetic, really.
allegorical oracle
(6,264 posts)4. Even if he wears a suit, he still looks like a prehistoric knuckle-dragger.
Kingofalldems
(40,073 posts)5. He was trying to get Fanone to punch him so they can whine on Fox news.
flvegan
(65,868 posts)7. The right wing WWE-esque grift machine is vast, and he wants a chunk of it.
This was his opportunity to get it. He'd get the retweets, the TikToks, the YouTubes. Disinformation and stupidity driven by a "smash that like button!" mentality.
chiffondior
(37 posts)8. There would be a world record set for the fastest time a GoFundMe goal was hit......
For his legal defense if Officer Fanone clobbered that little pissant!