President Donald Trump, who assumed the position in January with a promise to seek retribution Against his political enemies, he made it more clear than ever his desire to use the weight of the Department of Justice against his enemies perceived this week.
Asked by the journalists on Friday, which was the following on his list one day after the department of the Department of Cabo brought an accusation of two positions. Against the former FBI director James Comey, Trump said: “It’s not a list, but I think there will be others.”
Comey, who Trump shot his position in 2017, had been a Trump target since he supervised FBI’s investigation into the alleged Russian interference. in the 2016 elections.
“Justice in the United States! One of the worst human beings to whom this country has been exposed is James Comey,” Trump wrote on social networks after Thursday’s accusation. “It has been so bad for our country, for so long, and is now at the beginning of being considered responsible for its crimes against our nation.”
The former FBI chief has been accused of making a false statement to Congress and the obstruction of a research procedure before Congress, related to his testimony of Congress 2020 regarding Russia’s investigation of the FBI.
Comey, who said in a statement that he was innocent of the charges, said in an Instagram video: “My family and I know that there are costs to face Donald Trump, but we could not imagine living otherwise. We will not live on his knees and we should not.”
The charges were presented by the newly appointed US prosecutor for the Eastern district of Virginia, former White House assistant, Lindsey Halligan, who assumed the role after Trump expelled US Prosecutor EU. Erik Siebert After the sources say that Siebert expressed doubts internally about bringing a case against Comey.
President Donald Trump, with the granddaughter Kai Madison Trump, talks to the media when she leaves the White House to address Marine One, in Washington, on September 26, 2025.
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“What they did was so terrible and corrupt,” Trump told Fox News Digital on Thursday, referring to those involved in Russia’s investigation. “Comey placed a cloud over the whole nation.”
Trump, in the same interview, hinted that he potentially accuses the former CIA director, John Brennan, in relation to Russia’s investigation.
“We will have to see what happens. It depends on the Department of Justice, but I can tell him that it is a group of people who was very disappointing,” Trump said. “This makes Watergate look like peanuts.”
Comey’s accusation occurred a few days after the main federal prosecutors at the US Prosecutor’s Offices. In the bases of the open society, a group financed by the billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, for possible positions ranging from support for terrorism to the success, the sources told ABC News.
“This Department of Justice, together with our working and dedicated American lawyers, will always prioritize public security and investigate organizations that conspire to commit acts of violence or other federal violations of the law,” said a DOJ spokesman.
A spokesman for the bases of open society described the accusations “attacks with political motivation.”
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, disputed accusations that the probes of the Department of Justice were motivated by politics.
“Professional FBI agents, Intel analysts and staff directed research on Comey and others,” he published on Friday. “They called the balls and strikes and will continue to do so. The very false accusations that attack this FBI for the politicization of the application of the law come from the same means in bankruptcy that sold the world in Russia Gate, it is Hypocrisy on steroids “.
Democrats like Senator Peter Welch were not buying it.
“The accusation of President Trump and his Department of Justice of James Comey is a new minimum for our democracy. The reason for the accusation is clear: Comey is Trump’s political adversary,” Welch wrote in X.
Asked by journalists about Friday’s accusation, Trump said: “They harmonized the Department of Justice as nobody in history. What they have done is terrible. And so I hope, frankly, I hope there are others, because they cannot let this happen to a country.”
“This is justice, not revenge,” Trump said. “This is justice.”
Rachel Scott of ABC News contributed to this report.
