Asked how the prison system could cope with an ex-president as a convict, Comey replied blithely: “Put him in a double wide [trailer home] somewhere out near the fences.”
The former FBI chief has been indicted on the flimsiest of charges – giving false statements and obstruction of Congress. Five years ago, Comey is alleged to have authorised a leak in one of the leakiest cities on earth, Washington DC, and lied about it at a congressional hearing.
The “we” is telling. The Trump administration has also gone after his beloved daughter, Maurene, who successfully prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking Jeffrey Epstein’s victims in 2021.
The Epstein affair continues to roil the Justice department. Its leader, Pam Bondi, is fighting to keep Trump’s favour in an unseemly battle with the Maga boys leading the FBI, Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino – megamouths far distant from the “G-men” (faceless agents) of yesteryear.
He was speedily replaced by Lindsey Halligan, a former Colorado beauty queen turned lawyer, who has almost no experience as a prosecutor but was willing to go after Comey before the five-year statute of limitations expires on Tuesday.
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He compared him to a mob boss and said: “He’s even nastier and more unmoored than he was… The idea of him as president, just bent on retribution and destroying the system, is chilling.”
His livelihood and that of his daughter, who is suing the Department of Justice for wrongful dismissal, is at threat. Comey’s son-in-law has also lost his job. He just resigned as a senior prosecutor in Virginia, citing loyalty to the constitution.
Looking back, it is hard to see what Trump’s beef is about. Hillary Clinton still blames Comey’s cack-handed decision to reopen an investigation into “her emails” on the eve of the 2016 election for her opponent’s shock victory.
After the 6 January riots in 2021, Trump appeared finished. But the blizzard of lawsuits against him for allegedly obstructing the 2020 election, his business dealings in New York and the defamation of E Jean Carroll – to whom he still owes $83m – did wonders to restore his reputation as a fighter and champion of the underdog. He roared back.
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The President is also coming after Letitia James, the New York attorney general who prosecuted him for business fraud in New York, and John Bolton, his former national security adviser and critic.
Americans don’t care as much as they should about abstract notions of saving democracy. But the President should know that sympathy for him during his own legal battles cuts both ways. He has become the bully – and it’s an ugly look.
Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting
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