President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised at times to use the vast powers of his office to seek revenge against politicians and officials who he contends have wronged him. Over the past several years, he has publicly named a range of those people and specified what he believes should happen to them.
“I am your warrior, I am your justice,” Mr. Trump told supporters in 2023. “And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”
Here are some of the officials who have been frequent targets of his ire.
Prosecutors and Judges
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Jack Smith, the Justice Department special counsel who oversaw two indictments of Mr. Trump, related to election interference and mishandling of classified documents
“Jack Smith should be considered mentally deranged, and he should be thrown out of the country,” Mr. Trump said in October 2024.
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Letitia James, the New York State attorney general who sued Mr. Trump over the valuation of his real estate properties, costing him hundreds of millions of dollars
Ms. James “should be prosecuted,” Mr. Trump said in November 2023.
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Arthur F. Engoron, the New York State Supreme Court judge who oversaw that case
Mr. Trump said at a campaign rally last January that both Judge Engoron and Letitia James “should be arrested and punished accordingly.”
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Alvin L. Bragg, Manhattan district attorney who led a prosecution against Mr. Trump that resulted in a felony conviction
“Alvin Bragg should be held accountable for the crime of ‘interference in a presidential election,’” Mr. Trump said in March 2023.
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Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney who indicted Mr. Trump in Georgia in an election interference case
Mr. Trump said Ms. Willis “should be impeached for many reasons,” August of 2023.
Jan 6. investigators
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Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chairman of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol
Ms. Cheney “should be prosecuted for what she has done to our country,” Mr. Trump said in a social media post last March, adding: “She should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee.”
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The other members of the committee — which included one other Republican, Adam Kinzinger, and seven Democrats
The whole Jan. 6 committee “should be prosecuted for their lies and, quite frankly, TREASON!” Mr. Trump wrote in March 2023.
First-term foes
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Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mr. Trump called General Milley a “woke train wreck” who committed a treasonous act for calls he made to his Chinese counterpart as Mr. Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election. “This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!” Mr. Trump said in September 2023.
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Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former lawyer, who pleaded guilty during Mr. Trump’s first term to paying to silence a woman who claimed she had sex with Mr. Trump