Trump’s Naughty List: A Critical Reckoning with Former Leaders

Donald Trump, much like Santa Claus who meticulously tracks who has been naughty or nice, possesses a special set of Grinch-like feelings toward certain individuals.

10.) Joe Biden: The former president’s “autopen administration” left President Trump with significant budget deficits, illegal immigration crises, crime waves, and national security challenges. Additionally, it weaponized the attorney general’s office and federal intelligence agencies to spy on his presidential campaign, raid his personal residence, and attempt to bankrupt, imprison, and criminally disqualify him for a 2020 re-election bid.

9.) Hillary Clinton: As the 2016 presidential opposition candidate, Clinton and her campaign sponsored the fabricated “Steele dossier”—a phony and salacious report alleging Russian espionage—to distract media attention from her deletion of over 30,000 emails, some containing classified information illegally stored on her personal server during her tenure as secretary of state. Democrats later used entirely fabricated “Trump-Russia collusion” charges to undermine his first term and support impeachment actions.

8.) James B. Comey: Former FBI Director Comey weaponized the agency to conduct a “Crossfire Hurricane” spy operation targeting Trump’s 2016 campaign advisors, including a criminal sting on General Michael Flynn. He leaked information about a Trump investigation to the media to discredit him and acted on behalf of then Attorney General Loretta Lynch to shield Hillary Clinton from criminal prosecution over her email national security breach. Although his agency had no criminal evidence against Trump, Comey signed three FISA court applications used to spy on General Flynn and campaign advisor Carter Page while omitting that he was a known CIA contact.

7.) Barack Obama: On January 5, 2017, during his presidency, former President Obama was fully briefed in a White House meeting attended by Vice President Biden, FBI Director Jim Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and intelligence chiefs Jim Clapper and John Brennan that the Crossfire Hurricane investigation found no evidence of Trump colluding with Russians or basis for FISA warrants on Carter Page or General Flynn.

6.) John Brennan: Former CIA Director Brennan previously briefed President Obama, Vice President Biden, Attorney General Lynch, National Intelligence Director Clapper, and FBI Director Comey in the Oval Office on July 28, 2016, regarding intelligence that Hillary’s campaign had fabricated Trump-Russia collusion claims as a distraction from her political email problem. Brennan was also a prominent lead signatory among the 51 “top intel officials” who claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop contained “classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election.

5.) Senator Adam Schiff, D-Calif.: As ranking member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence during his first impeachment trial in 2020, Schiff led Democrats’ Russia collusion inquiries against Trump. A recent whistleblower alleged that in 2017, Schiff authorized the leak of classified information derogatory about then-President Trump to support his indictment.

4.) John Bolton: Former national security adviser Bolton has turned on his former boss, alleging in his book The Room Where It Happened that Trump was unfit for office, motivated by personal gain rather than American interests, and prone to cozying up with foreign dictators—such as selling out allies like Taiwan in exchange for trade deals with China’s Xi Jinping. Bolton has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 18 charges of unlawful retention and transmission of national defense information.

3.) Merrick Garland: Former Biden attorney general Garland conducted an unprecedented armed raid on Trump’s personal Mar-a-Lago residence on August 8, 2002, in search of classified documents he was entitled to keep under the Presidential Records Act while ignoring 130 known classified documents found in Trump’s properties. Garland also oversaw federal charges against Trump alleging attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.

2.) Jack Smith: Former special counsel Smith, appointed by Attorney General Garland to lead prosecutions of federal cases against Trump, has been formally summoned by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about the Mar-a-Lago raid and an attempt to pressure defense counsel with promises of political patronage. The subpoena follows revelations that the FBI’s Arctic Frost probe secretly obtained phone records of over 400 Republican targets, including at least 10 lawmakers.

1.) Jerome Powell: Current Federal Reserve Chairman Powell faces criticism for allegedly keeping interest rates too high—a policy contributing to negative economic outcomes blamed on him rather than profligate spending by previous administrations that elevated home mortgage borrowing and living costs. Meanwhile, Powell’s $2.5 billion renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters receives favorable coverage from liberal media, while Trump’s $200 million donor-funded White House East Wing addition is criticized.