Republicans are threatening legal actions as payback for Trump's conviction

After a New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts of fraud in a hush-money case, several GOP voices started calling for revenge against Democrats.

The immediate calls for payback come from a notion, still unfunded by evidence that the legal cases against former President Trump are a Democrat-planned conspiracy.

Lawmakers, representatives of the Trump campaign, and former Government officials promoted the notion that the legal cases were constructed as a conspiracy to keep the former President away from the White House.

So, high GOP profiles like Marco Rubio, a potential VP candidate, Mike Johnson, the House Speaker, and Trump's former chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, suggested there must be legal avenues to prosecute Democrats.

Other Republicans of lower profile went as far as proposing Democrats should be jailed. Laura Loomer, a far-right and anti-Muslim activist who has met Donald Trump many times, asked for the "death penalty."

The violent rhetoric against the Manhattan prosecutor and judge who led Mr. Trump's case flooded social media, according to The New York Times. However, underneath the words, are there any natural avenues to prosecuting Democrats?

According to The Washington Post and The New York Times, very few voices calling for revenge recommended a specific approach to the task.

Mike Davis, a former Judiciary Committee lawyer, told The New York Times that Republican attorneys general in Georgia and Florida should open investigations against the prosecutors in Trump's hush money and election overturn cases.

The newspaper said it would be similar to the Republican President's unsuccessful special counsel investigation against top Obama officials who participated in the Russian election investigation during his term.

Jeff Clark, a former Trump Justice Department official, suggested a second option to The New York Times: he said district attorneys in conservative areas should file lawsuits against the prosecutors.

Clark said citizens could seek damages against government officials under federal laws for violating their constitutional rights through a conspiracy to prevent Trump from running.

Still, according to the newspaper, Mr. Clark never clarified how local criminal prosecutors could have legal standing to go into federal court even if they could prove such conspiracy.

According to The Washington Post, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey suggested that Biden could be prosecuted for trying to "buy votes" by forgiving student loans.

However, the Post also warned of a more dangerous approach, motivated by the belief that Democrats fabricated evidence against Trump. Some voices have called to do exactly that against Democrats.

The calls for revenge have taken over the party. According to the New York Times, Larry Hogan, the former governor of Maryland and contender for a Senate seat, received fierce backlash for calling on Republican voters to respect the verdict.

Official voices in the Trump campaign, including his daughter-in-law and head of the Republican National Committee, Lara Trump, reprehended Hogan despite being the party's best chance to regain control of the Senate.

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