‘WHEN I WIN’: Trump Vows Crackdown On ‘Unscrupulous Behavior’ With ‘Prison Sentences’ At ‘Levels Never Seen Before’

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Former President Donald Trump posted an ominous threat to Truth Social on Friday, promising prosecutions at “levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”

Trump has long pushed widely debunked claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election and has become to make similar claims about the 2024 election. He posted to his Truth platform a warning to his political opponents regarding the election, saying, “CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election. It was a Disgrace to our Nation!”

“Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again. We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T! Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country,” he added. Trump posted a near identical threat in late September.

Trump has long vowed “retribution” against those he views as having “rigged” the 2020 election, despite President Joe Biden’s significant victory.

NPR took a deep dive into Trump’s threats to jail Americans and found “Trump has made more than 100 threats to investigate, prosecute, imprison or otherwise punish his perceived opponents.”

“He’s reposted calls for former President Barack Obama, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney to face military tribunals. And then he’s also pushed for prosecutions and arrests of people involved in the criminal and civil cases against him – prosecutors, judges, even a courthouse staffer. And in one case, he floated the idea of prosecuting a member of the Georgia grand jury that indicted him for election interference,” noted NPR’s Tom Dreisbach, offering a few examples.