A senior Democrat called for congressional leaders to denounce a Trump loyalist’s claim to have compiled a “deep state target list” of public figures to be detained if the former president returns to power next year.
“This is a deadly serious report,” Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland told Raw Story, regarding its extensive discoveries about Ivan Raiklin, a former US army reserve lieutenant colonel and US Defense Intelligence Agency employee the site said was seeking to enlist rightwing sheriffs while calling himself Donald Trump’s “future secretary of retribution”.