Ivan Raiklin is an American political operative and former Army reservist. He is the progenitor of the

Pence card After Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, then-incumbent Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented effort to overturn the election, with support and assistance from his campaign, proxies, political allies, and many of ...

, which he tweeted to President Trump on December 16, 2020 (who in turn retweeted it), which outlined a novel legal theory to overturn the legitimate result of the

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. This tweet was the precursor of the

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. The Pence card was one of a series of attempts to overturn the election. In the event of Trump winning a second term the self-proclaimed "Secretary of Retribution" claims that he would use constitutional sheriffs from conservative, rural counties to conduct raids (preferably live-streamed) of Trump's enemies, of which he has a " Deep State Target List" of 350 people. Said list has been in circulation in right-wing circles since January 2024. The sheriffs would purportedly deputize some 75,000 military veterans whom he claims were forced out of service because they refused to comply with

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mandates. A long-time associate of

Michael Flynn Michael Thomas Flynn (born December 24, 1958) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and conspiracy theorist who was the 24th U.S. National Security Advisor for the first 22 days of the Trump administration. He resigned in light of ...

,https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/ Raiklin is a former Lt.-Col. Army reservist, having served as a Green Beret, and a former employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency. A registered Republican, he failed to gather enough signatures to qualify for the Republican primary of June 12, 2018 for the U.S. Senate to represent Virginia. He later sued both the party and the commonwealth over the ballot access denial; federal district judge John A. Gibney, Jr. denied the request inasmuch as the suit was brought too late. An

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press release, dated June 27, 2024, announced that Raiklin will serve on the board of directors for America’s Future, a

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established by Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.).https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-news-station-removes-press-release-praising-trumps-secretary-of-retribution/ar-BB1pP62j

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