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Miles Archer

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Fri Sep 26, 2025, 12:29 PM Friday

Trump, up to his EYEBALLS in "WEAPONIZING THE JUSTICE DEPT," VOWS to "go after others" who...

"weaponized the Justice Dept."

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP, FOLKS.

Trump told reporters he expects other political opponents to be prosecuted after the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.

“It’s not a list, but I think there will be others,” Trump told CNN’s Kevin Liptak on Friday as he departed the White House for the Ryder Cup in New York.

Trump added, “I mean, they’re corrupt. These were corrupt, radical left Democrats. … No, there will be others. That’s my opinion. They weaponized the Justice Department like nobody in history. What they’ve done is terrible, I hope, frankly, there are others because you can’t let this happen to a country.”

The Justice Department on Thursday indicted Comey just days after Trump urged it to prosecute him and forced out the prosecutor who resisted charging the president’s political foes. It marked a stunning effort to target and punish his perceived political enemies.

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LetMyPeopleVote

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2. MaddowBlog-'There will be others': Trump eyes additional targets after securing Comey indictment
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 01:01 PM
Friday

After orchestrating the charges against the former FBI director, does the president expect to prosecute other foes? Of course he does.

After orchestrating the charges against James Comey, does Trump expect to prosecute other political enemies? Of course he does.

“There will be others,” he boasted. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-26T16:11:05.312Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/-will-others-trump-eyes-additional-targets-securing-comey-indictment-rcna233920

Now, the president has successfully orchestrated the indictment of one of his political enemies, former FBI Director James Comey, in an unusually brazen example of corrupting the criminal justice system. What are the odds that the Republican will feel satiated and curtail his revenge campaign?

Roughly zero. NBC News reported:

As he departed the White House for the Ryder Cup tournament, Trump was asked by a reporter who ‘the next person on your list in this retribution’ will be now that Comey has been indicted. ‘It’s not a list. I think there will be others. I mean they’re corrupt,’ Trump said. ‘These were corrupt radical left Democrats because Comey was essentially a — he’s worse than a Democrat.’


Obviously, this was largely gibberish. Neither the president nor those around him have ever presented credible evidence of his Democratic foes being “corrupt.” On the contrary, those looking for evidence of actual corruption should look no further than Trump’s charges against Comey.

Q: Now that Comey has been indicted, who is the next person on your list?

TRUMP: It's not a list, but I think they'll be others. I mean, they're corrupt. These were corrupt radical left Democrats.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-26T14:11:40.748Z

.......The prosecution is advancing anyway because Trump fired the prosecutor who insisted on following the law, ignored the career prosecutors who did their job, dismissed the concerns of his sycophantic attorney general and used an unqualified loyalist, just days into her tenure, to exact revenge against a former ally who dared to cross him.

MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian reported that within the Justice Department, many insiders believe this is “among the worst abuses” in the history of the institution.

“There will be others” suggests that we ought to append a caveat: this is among the worst abuses so far. Because Comey is hardly the only, or the last, person on Trump’s enemies list.
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