New York Intelligencer: Trump Threatens to Imprison Critics -- and Bondi Might Do It

[Dennis Donovan]

New York Intelligencer - (archived: https://archive.ph/bW1fB ) Trump Threatens to Imprison Critics — and Bondi Might Do It

April 11, 2025
By Elie Honig

Donald Trump’s presidential payback tour rages on, and now it’s personal. It’s one thing to target multibillion-dollar law firms, universities, and media outlets for organizational retribution; those efforts, aimed at stifling and punishing any criticism or dissent, are reprehensible in their own right. But now Trump is going after individual private citizens, using the might of the executive branch to potentially throw his detractors in prison.

In a pair of official proclamations — rendered no less unhinged by the use of official fonts and White House letterhead — Trump identifies two targets who worked in the federal government during his first tenure and dared to speak out publicly against him. First: Chris Krebs, who led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency from 2018 to 2020 and made headlines when he publicly contradicted Trump’s false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. For this act of heretical truth-telling, Trump labels Krebs “a significant bad-faith actor” — whatever the hell that means — who poses grave “risks” to the American public.

And then there’s Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official who publicly criticized the president in an anonymous book and various media appearances. Taylor, like Krebs, purportedly poses “risks” to the United States, is a “bad-faith actor” (though apparently not a significant one like Krebs), and “stoked dissension” with his public commentary.

Are you scared? Don’t you fear the “risks” posed by these two monsters?

True to the form he has displayed when going after disfavored law firms, Trump hits below the belt. The president ordered security clearances stripped not only from Krebs and Taylor but also from everyone who works with them (Krebs at a private cybersecurity firm, Taylor at the University of Pennsylvania). He’s punishing his targets — plus their employers and colleagues, First Amendment freedom of association be darned.

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[2naSalit]

1. No question...

That blonde ^*%R( would do it.

[Irish_Dem]

2. She is having the time of her life with unlimited power, hatred, revenge.

She is dangerous.

[2naSalit]

6. Very dangerous.

[Solly Mack]

3. Going after individual people and groups is the linear progression of attacking universities, law groups, and other

organizations, institutions, and agencies. The Trump Regime has made it plain they are attacking ideologies and beliefs they don't agree with, claiming those ideas and beliefs are a danger to America - you can't kill an idea. You simply can't. But you can kill the people who hold those ideas. You can imprison them, torture them, and disappear them.

And the whole in the name of preventing "antisemitism" scares the living shit out of me (Rubio). Because it's a lie - the Trump Regime doesn't give a rat's ass about Jewish people - and because all it is doing is directing blame at Jewish people as the cause for all the abuses the Trump Regime is engaged in.

To make it safe for Jewish students we must deport legal residents and others for their beliefs, send them to foreign prisons, forgoing due process/stripping them of their rights?

That's setting up Jewish Americans as the scapegoats for it all. That's directing anger at Jewish Americans.

It is wrong and it is dangerous - and it never ends well.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Shouldn't Bondi be facing disbarment proceedings by now ?

She seems not just willing, but zealously enthusiastic about violating every tenet of law in order to serve her orange overlord. She has to face a price for that, and it should be her career, at minimum.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Bondi is a glorified fluffer, nothing more.

[Dr. T]

7. But, but AG Barbie wears a Jesus cross

so she must be doing God's work.

I'm surprised she hasn't replaced her Jesus cross with a Trump bust.

[GiqueCee]

8. If you'll recall...

... John Roberts was an enthusiastic proponent of that diseased concept of Cheney and Rumsfeld's "Unitary Executive" bullshit even before he was appointed to the SCOTUS, and was likely, at least in part, why he was appointed. So you can pretty well bet that was top of mind when he and his scumbag buddies gave Trump legal cover to wreak havoc as he is doing now.
So, erase all your Facebook memes of Diaper Don, and pack a go-bag. this shit's gonna get ugly.

[twodogsbarking]

9. You suck out loud Trump. Come and get me.

[DFW]

10. If they are looking for Soviet-style self-censorship from us

They are six years too late. These two have made the rounds by now: