Trump steps up threats to imprison those he sees as foes - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Because we win -- without voter fraud, we win so easily," Trump said.
60% : "Trump at times has also seemed to invite vigilantism as another form of coercive force.
58% : "You get the information very easily," Trump said at a November 2022 rally.
51% : The following year, Trump expressed admiration for how the Chinese Communist Party had used its military and "the power of strength" to crush the pro-democracy protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
46% : In his latest book, "Save America," Trump threatened Zuckerberg, who in 2020 donated, with his wife, more than $400 million to nonpartisan groups that helped local election agencies deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, such as by expanding access to mail-in balloting.
46% : "Trump has exhibited a lifelong view of the criminal justice system and the exercise of state coercive force as an instrument of power to be used to impose order, not as a system in which innocence is presumed or restraint is the ideal.
37% : And Trump has made clear he plans to direct Justice Department investigations if he gets another term, starting with a vow to direct a prosecutor to "go after" Biden and his family.
37% : Attacking the Black prosecutors who investigated him in New York and Georgia, Trump has said he would "direct a completely overhauled" Department of Justice "to investigate every radical, out-of-control prosecutor in America for their illegal, racist-in-reverse enforcement of the law."
33% : Those who may face criminal scrutiny for purported efforts at election fraud, Trump has declared, will include election workers, a tech giant, political operatives, lawyers and donors working for his opponent.
32% : While some of what Trump has called for could be discounted as his usual hyperbolic, norm-busting rhetoric, his record in office suggests that other parts of what he is saying cannot be treated as unserious or figurative.
32% : Since Trump left office, several allies who have stayed on good terms with him -- including Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 election -- have developed a blueprint to make the department in a second Trump term more systematically subject to direct White House control, erasing the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department investigative independence.
32% : Many police unions have endorsed Trump, and in a speech before the Fraternal Order of Police on Friday, he called on local law enforcement officers to send an intimidating message to voters in order to prevent supposed cheating by Democrats.
31% : ""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," Trump wrote on his website Truth Social on Saturday.
28% : Trump has posed for photos with police officers who are guarding his motorcade during campaign stops, including one while he was in New York City for his criminal trial; his aides have posted those images on social media, appearing to signal that those forces approve of him.
27% : When federal prosecutors last year sought a gag order barring Trump from vilifying people related to the election subversion case, they cited a series of threats and other harassment endured by election workers and others he has attacked, saying he "knows that when he publicly attacks individuals and institutions, he inspires others to perpetrate threats and harassment against his targets.
26% : As president, Trump repeatedly pressured the Justice Department to prosecute his political adversaries, including Clinton.
20% : "Trump often likes to say people should be prosecuted as a way of disparaging them, sometimes with no obvious connection to any law.
19% : "We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison" Trump wrote.
18% : Trump has also spoken of turning both federal law enforcement power and the fear of extrajudicial violence upon members of the news media, which he has long maligned as the "enemy of the people."
6% : Trump has falsely portrayed that effort as an illegal contribution to the 2020 Biden campaign.

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