Trump previews ‘there’ll be others’ after Comey indictment
By Naomi Lim
September 26, 2025 12:12 pm
President Donald Trump previewed that more perceived political opponents may be pursued by the Justice Department after former FBI Director James Comey was indicted for allegedly lying to Congress.
“It’s not a list, but I think there’ll be others,” Trump told reporters Friday at the White House.
Trump contended that “corrupt radical-left Democrats” “weaponized the Justice Department like nobody in history,” but he described Comey, who was a registered Republican, as being “worse than a Democrat.”
“There’ll be others,” he repeated. “What they’ve done is terrible, and so I would, I hope there, frankly, I hope there are others because you can’t let this happen to a country.”
Comey was indicted late Thursday after a federal grand jury in Virginia charged him with lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding over testimony he provided in 2020, in which he denied he leaked information in 2016 to the Wall Street Journal regarding his investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The charges were brought by the new interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, after her predecessor Erik Siebert resigned amid a pressure campaign by Trump for the office to prosecute his critics. The charges themselves have been criticized by career prosecutors because they are not considered to have a good chance of success in a trial.
But Trump defended the indictment on Friday, arguing it was a “pretty easy case” because Comey, whom he also called a “dirty cop,” “lied” and “didn’t think he’d get caught.”
“They did it with me for four years,” he said. “Before I came to office, I started hearing rumors about Russia. … It’s about justice. Really, it’s not revenge. It’s also about the fact that you can’t let this go on. They are sick, radical-left people, and they can’t get away with it.”
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