{"id":2491604,"date":"2025-09-26T14:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retribution-isnt-a-dirty-word-its-imperative\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:43:09","slug":"retribution-isnt-a-dirty-word-its-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retribution-isnt-a-dirty-word-its-imperative\/","title":{"rendered":"Retribution Isn&#8217;t A Dirty Word. It&#8217;s Imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fretribution-isnt-a-dirty-word-its-imperative%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2491604&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-issues-multiple-corrections-for-article-falsely-claiming-900000-u-s-children-have-been-hospitalized-for-covid-19-during-pandemic\/\" title=\"New ... Issues Multiple Corrections For Article Falsely Claiming 900,000 U.S. Children Have Been Hospitalized For COVID-19 During Pandemic\">article discusses<\/a> how the term &#8220;retribution&#8221; is often mischaracterized by Democrats and much of the media when referring to former President Trump&#8217;s intentions. It clarifies the definition of retribution as a justified repayment for wrongdoing. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >piece highlights recent developments<\/a>, such as the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey-who was fired by Trump-on charges related to lying to Congress, framing these events as examples of rightful retribution. The author argues that Trump and his supporters have been unfairly targeted by political opponents and the media thru investigations and scandals, and that Trump&#8217;s efforts to hold these individuals accountable represent a legitimate response. Trump&#8217;s declaration, &#8220;I am your retribution,&#8221; is portrayed as a promise to the voters who feel wronged by election controversies and political attacks. Ultimately, the article contends that what is happening now is an opportunity for justice and setting things right for Trump&#8217;s base.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uscoastguardacademy\/30382710211\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Brahm\/U.S. Coast Guard Academy\/Flickr<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/26\/retribution-isnt-a-dirty-word-its-imperative\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Retribution%20Isn%E2%80%99t%20A%20Dirty%20Word.%20It%E2%80%99s%20Imperative&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/26\/retribution-isnt-a-dirty-word-its-imperative\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Retribution%20Isn%E2%80%99t%20A%20Dirty%20Word.%20It%E2%80%99s%20Imperative&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/26\/retribution-isnt-a-dirty-word-its-imperative\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/26\/retribution-isnt-a-dirty-word-its-imperative\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Retribution%20Isn%E2%80%99t%20A%20Dirty%20Word.%20It%E2%80%99s%20Imperative&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/26\/retribution-isnt-a-dirty-word-its-imperative\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s always been weird the way Democrats and the dying news media refer to President Trump&rsquo;s plans for &ldquo;retribution,&rdquo; both before and after he was elected. It&rsquo;s like they never bothered to look up the word.<\/p>\n<p>Merriam-Webster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/thesaurus\/retribution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defines<\/a> it as &ldquo;the act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury.&rdquo; More fittingly, Dictionary.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/retribution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has it as<\/a> &ldquo;requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.&rdquo; In other words, repayment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1183256474\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After news broke Thursday that former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by Trump in his first term, was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/26\/after-harming-the-country-with-russiagate-comeys-indictment-is-well-deserved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicted on charges<\/a> related to lying to Congress under oath, the &ldquo;retribution&rdquo; line was back on repeat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/25\/us\/politics\/trump-retribution-comey-indictment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a>: &ldquo;Trump Gets the Retribution He Sought &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-retribution-comey-e5700c9f8dff30d358d9d5f39501c16c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>: &ldquo;Trump escalates retribution campaign &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/trump-pushes-bondi-to-pursue-cases-against-his-foes-as-he-ramps-up-retribution-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PBS<\/a>: &ldquo;&hellip; as he ramps up retribution campaign.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-sidney-powell-releases-statement-to-we-the-people-on-her-trump-election-legal-efforts-it-will-be-epic\/\" title=\"New: Sidney Powell Releases Statement to &quot;We the People&quot; on Her Trump Election Legal Efforts (&quot;It Will Be Epic&quot;)\">news article<\/a> and cable news segment on the topic is naturally accompanied by a Democrat who ominously declares Trump an &ldquo;authoritarian&rdquo; who has &ldquo;weaponized the Justice Department.&rdquo; (Imagine a president using the Justice Department to prosecute his opponents.) <\/p>\n<p>Sure thing. But what the president&rsquo;s supporters should have to say about &ldquo;retribution&rdquo; is &mdash;&nbsp;you&rsquo;re damn right. Comey, a proud Taylor Swift fangirl, is a proven liar who maliciously manipulated the public by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/08\/29\/inspector-general-eviscerates-fired-former-fbi-director-james-comey-in-formal-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">making classified leaks<\/a> to the media in order to make Trump, his former boss, look bad. Criminal, even.<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that the president is guided by anything personal in his administration holding criminals and otherwise corrupt individuals to account, whatever. Those people endlessly investigated him over fake accusations he was a Russian agent, had him impeached, almost bankrupted him, tried to put him in prison, and, ultimately, got him shot. I&rsquo;d say he&rsquo;s earned the right, and not just because voters granted him the power to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the voters, Trump told them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/clip\/campaign-2024\/former-pres-trump-i-am-your-justicei-am-your-retribution\/5060238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in advance<\/a>, &ldquo;I am your retribution.&rdquo; And they elected him. There should be no mistake that the scores to settle are not his alone. They are for the millions of people who supported him and who almost saw the third election in a row stolen from them.<\/p>\n<p>The first one was effectively stolen after 2016, when the entire Washington bureaucracy worked to thwart the agenda Trump was elected to enact, by way of character assassination and then an attempt to remove him from office. The second one was hijacked by Covid hysteria, with Democrats and the dying media laying every single death caused by a highly contagious, airborne virus at one man&rsquo;s feet, plus violent race riots threatening to burn down entire cities if Democrats didn&rsquo;t get their way. The third one &mdash; well, you saw what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Now Trump&rsquo;s voters finally have a chance to see things set right. This is what it looks like.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party&rsquo;s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/associated-press\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Associated Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/classified-information\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">classified information<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/james-comey\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">James Comey<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/justice\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">justice<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/justice-department\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Justice Department<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/leaks\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Leaks<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/media\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/new-york-times\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/pbs\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">PBS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit Richard Brahm\/U.S. Coast Guard Academy\/Flickr Share It&#8217;s always odd how Democrats and the fading media label Trump&#8217;s &#8220;retribution&#8221; 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