Right-Wingers Are Already Promising Vengeance After The Trump Verdict

The ink wasn’t even dry on the jury sheet declaring former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felonies when his right-wing allies started vowing revenge.

“They’re the wolves with the bloody piece of meat in their mouths,” SiriusXM talk show host Megyn Kelly told viewers Thursday night. “That doesn’t stop the wolf from coming back for more. The only thing that will stop him is if he loses a limb of his own.”

Despite the gruesome imagery, Kelly stressed that she wasn’t “talking about violence.” Rather, she said, she was referring to a “tit-for-tat” in which Republican officials pass new laws to allow for the prosecution of old crimes that Democrats including Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton “surely committed.”

Kelly wasn’t alone in calling for retributional criminal charges against Democrats. Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) declared:“Time for Red State AGs and DAs to get busy.” And far-right commentator Matt Walsh called for Republicans to make listsof “which Democrats they will have arrested,” and for Trump specifically to “publish a list of ten high ranking Democrat criminals who he will have arrested when he takes office.” The first two names, Walsh said, ought to be Joe and Hunter Biden.

Charlie Kirk, the millionaire MAGA influencer and founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, fumed that “we must defeat these savages,” before calling on conservative prosecutors across America to seek revenge. “How many Republican DAs or AG’s have stones?” Kirk wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “We aren’t a serious political movement until we are ready to fight fire with fire. Indict the left, or lose America.”

Tucker Carlson, the Fox News alum, warned his nearly 13 million followers on X that Trump’s