Steve Bannon reveals Trump plans to prosecute his enemies one by one

Donald Trump frequently muses about prosecuting his enemies at rallies, during interviews and in social media posts, and his former chief strategist Steve Bannon revealed his allies are scheming to carry out those threats.

If the recently convicted ex-president wins re-election, his top supporters will urge him to target Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg and his other perceived political enemies for prosecution, and Bannon told Axios that Trump's allies are cooking up legal justification for those investigations.

"Of course [Bragg] should be — and will be — jailed," Bannon said.

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Bragg, who won Trump's conviction last week on all 34 felony counts against him, could be targeted under the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause or the Fourth Amendment, which forbids unreasonable searches and seizures, Bannon said, adding the Department of Justice could also target him for "scores of other" alleged violations of the law.

"The evolution of any war... They only get nastier over time," Bannon said.

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Bannon told the New York Times that Republican prosecutors should make a name for themselves by prosecuting Trump's enemies ahead of his potential return to the White House.

“There are dozens of ambitious backbencher state attorneys general and district attorneys who need to ‘seize the day’ and own this moment in history,” Bannon said.

Bragg is also prosecuting Bannon for alleged money laundering and conspiracy in connection with the "Build the Wall" group, in a case scheduled to go to trial in September, and while the district attorney is a state official who operates independently of the federal government, House Republicans intend to punish him and other prosecutors who have investigated Trump.

"We have seen rogue prosecutors abuse the rules of professional conduct and their duty to do justice in service of politicized ends," wrote House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH). "We recommend that the Appropriations Committee, with appropriate consultation from leadership, include language to eliminate federal funding for state prosecutors or state attorneys general involved in lawfare and to zero out federal funding for federal prosecutors engaged in such abuse."

Jordan has called on Bragg and one of his courtroom prosecutors, Matthew Colangelo to testify June 13 on his select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government about Trump's prosecution, and House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said that hearing was the first step toward rolling up other cases against the quadruple-indicted ex-president.

"We're going to look at special counsel Jack Smith," Johnson said. "We have the funding streams. We have mechanisms to try to get control of that."

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