Some Trump critics fear they could be the president's next target for prosecution

Fear is spreading among some who’ve run afoul of President Donald Trump as he has called for indictments of some of his political enemies.

WASHINGTON — Fear is spreading among some who’ve run afoul of President Donald Trump.

A foreboding that grew out of Trump’s election victory last November has deepened, several people told NBC News, after the Justice Department secured indictments against two public figures who’ve long been in his crosshairs: New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey.

Some said they worry that the Trump administration will target them for prosecution, draining their life savings and potentially landing them in jail. In a time of heightened political violence, others said they fear that the president’s most zealous followers may try to do them harm.

Miles Taylor is bracing for both eventualities. He served as a senior official in the Department of Homeland Security in Trump’s first term and wrote two books that disparaged the president. In April, Trump signed an executive memorandum calling Taylor an "egregious leaker and disseminator of falsehoods." Trump stripped him of his security clearance and directed agencies to review his conduct as a government employee.

Within days of that memo, Taylor said he got a threat from a person living in the South. More recently, he said his wife received a message warning that she'd be forced to watch while a firing squad executed her husband. He described arriving home and seeing his wife "in tears and shaking" after she received the death threat.