Then once in power he was magnanimous and spared Hilary Clinton any investigation or lawfare.

As a thanks for this, the Dems turned around and spent the last decade hounding Trump and his allies.

Including trying to disbar attorneys who worked for him!
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/597163-group-trying-to-disbar-lawyers-who-worked-on-trumps-post-election/
(A move beyond the pale IMO. The essence of a lwayer is that they should be available to the guilty.)

So at this point, no. This is no longer lawfare. This is the new game and they have established the rules. The Left needs to learn that you can’t go breaking the rule of law and then yell “time out” when the punch-back approaches. They need to learn and they need to learn hard or they will keep escalating their antics.

I have absolutely no sympathy for those who used lawfare against Trump for a decade who now find that particular gun turned around on them now. [Nonapod @3:49]

The left throws the word “retribution” around as if it means an unjustified vengeance. In fact, the definition is: a justly deserved penalty. So, IMO, the word actually justifies the resulting reaction. FAFO!

Mike Plaiss on August 25, 2025 at 2:34 pm: “Trump is the first to come along that has no interest at all in “winning them over.” That, if nothing else, has them on their heels.”
I gather Vance and DeSantis are learning (or have learned) this lesson. That attitude ought to be a prime factor in picking our R candidates going forward, given the Left’s success of co-opting the media, academia, etc. Haley, Lindsey Graham, and too many others still want to be liked in DC, but don’t want to get a dog.
Davemay at 8:16pm appears to be saying the same basic idea.

I am having some difficulty understanding why some former federal employees with clearances get to retain their clearance when they leave govt. service. Or that they could realistically believe they should have access to sensitive materials at that time, either.
Perhaps presidents and some others realistically need to retain their clearances for a period of time (90 to 180 days max?) to sort out what goes to their libraries or for other reasons, but they should never be allowed to move the classified material to personal homes, etc.
Also, deny clearances to folks doing “consulting” or lobbying unless needed for contracting, etc.
Get, and take, that big VP or CEO job after leaving the govt. because you demonstrated superior leadership, not because you have “contacts” in the govt.

And then AesopFan at 3:31 pm, and then Tom Grey at 3:48 pm, and then Nonapod at 3:49 pm, and then Geoffrey Britain at 5:53 pm. [If I omitted anyone, I do apologize.] Let the cascade continue!

I don’t give a rat’s patootie about anyone’s personal grudge or lust for revenge. It’s far past time for this sh!t to STOP.

I do give a rat’s patootie [more than just one, truth be told] about the right shoving it back at the left, “good and hard” (to quote Mencken*). It’s not Trump (or even some Trumpkins) versus some short list of leftie actors: it’s our values and norms versus those other guys’ values and norms, such as they are.

Cornhead summed it up very well, albeit in nicer terms than I’m using:

“If there is no punishment for the Left to stop the leaking and other criminal activity then it will just continue. Bolton, Comey, Brennan and the rest of them need to pay a price so that this stuff stops.”

It’s far beyond grudge or revenge, personal or otherwise. Enough is enough, d#mmit.

And I’m very grateful that people like Trump and Gabbard have the gargantuan cojones to make it happen and (we hope) make it *stick*.

* https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/51436-democracy-is-the-theory-that-the-common-people-know-what

Bingo with nothing less than lengthy terms in a Federal Prison.

Most #MeToo guilty men were Dem donors or supporters.

There should be two new offices in the DoJ, 1) against Republican crimes, and 2) against Democrat crimes. Filled by investigators & lawyers of the other party, whose job is to go after the criminal behavior of politicians.