"There was tremendous criminal activity," the president averred, urging unspecified charges against former Special Counsel Jack Smith, former FBI lawyer Andrew Weissmann, and former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.
The legal rationales for prosecuting James Comey, Adam Schiff, and Letitia James suggest the president is determined to punish them one way or another.
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The administration is pursuing a vendetta, but Comey and the FBI deserve scrutiny and reduced stature.
By demanding that the Justice Department punish the former FBI director for wronging him, the president provided evidence to support a claim of selective or vindictive prosecution.
The FBI director's portrayal of the case exemplifies the emptiness of his promise that there would be "no retributive actions" against the president's enemies.
There is ample evidence to suspect prosecutors are just doing President Trump's dirty work rather than following the facts of the case.
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The former FBI director's cringey Instagram photos are not an "exigent circumstance" that allows law enforcement to circumvent the Constitution.
A lot of conservatives are falling prey to the same snowflakery they criticize.
Total spending under Trump nearly doubled. New programs filled Washington with more bureaucrats.
Why trust an agency that conceals information from judges but prosecutes us for lying to it?
The problems revealed by the DOJ inspector general go far beyond "errors" and "sloppiness."
In an interview with Fox News, the former FBI director admitted mistakes with the FISA process but defended his team.
Republicans were wrong to side with the state on privacy issues, and the media was wrong to lionize anti-Trump G-men.
The government's surveillance of Carter Page might not have been improperly motivated, but it was still seriously flawed.
Partisans, to your battle stations!
Rosenstein was not happy with how Trump handled the James Comey firing.
It's time for this intrusive, politicized, and overly powerful agency to be dumped.
The president reverts to his original, highly implausible excuse for dismissing the FBI director.
The DOJ's inspector general concludes that James Comey acted wrongly but not politically and that an FBI agent said "we'll stop" Trump from winning but didn't act on it.
Conduct that does not meet the legal criteria for an obstruction charge could still be serious enough to justify impeachment.
