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Kid Berwyn

(23,347 posts)
1. GOP has no shame, like the NAZIs they are.
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 02:57 PM
Yesterday
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/

Traildogbob

(12,653 posts)
2. I wish Fanone and Dunn
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 03:09 PM
Yesterday

Would have released 6 years of rage on his ass right there in the well.

yellow dahlia

(4,895 posts)
9. I've seen this guy sitting in the audience at several hearings in the past few years.
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 11:18 PM
18 hrs ago

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!

flvegan

(65,868 posts)
7. The right wing WWE-esque grift machine is vast, and he wants a chunk of it.
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 04:48 PM
Yesterday

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......
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 07:45 PM
21 hrs ago

For his legal defense if Officer Fanone clobbered that little pissant!

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