Friday, 26 September 2025

Trump's revenge against his personal enemies

James Comey, former FBI director, is the first but certainly not the last. Donald Trump always said he would take revenge against the people he believed inspired against him during his four years in office and now he has started. James Comey didn't stand a chance because he was the one who was in charge of the investigation into whether Trump was secretly aligned with Moscow to get elected in 2016, and then wrote a book attacking Trump. The evidence against him, in terms of a real criminal offence, would appear to be flimsy at best. The grand jury returned an indictment against Comey after a lawyer appointed by Trump only days ealier was part of the prosecution team and then turned out to be the one voice supporting the indictment. The other prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to convict. It's all a bit disturbing. Comey's mistake was to make a point of digging himself in vis a vis Trump by publicly criticising him. Had he been a bit wiser he would have gone into retirement quietly. But I guess he thought there was no chance of Trump being reelected, seeing as how he was facing so many criminal charges himself. But, then, he didn't predict Joe Biden deteriorating in health and resigning three months before election day. Kamala Harris was on a hiding to nothing and when Trump won easily, Comey was on a countdown to an indictment.

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