WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump predicted Friday that “there will be others” indicted following a federal grand jury’s indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.
The jury indicted Comey on charges of giving false statements and obstruction of a congressional proceeding, prompting liberal media to accuse the president of retaliating against political opponents. On Friday morning, the president gaggled with reporters before boarding Marine One for a trip to the Ryder Cup in New York. He discussed the Comey news and stressed that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department had unfairly targeted him.
“I think there’ll be others,” Trump shared, pressed by a reporter to share who else could be next. “I mean, they’re corrupt. These were corrupt, radical Left Democrats, because Comey, essentially was, he was worse than a Democrat. I would say the Democrats are better than Comey. But no, there’ll be others … that’s my opinion.”
“They weaponized the Justice Department like nobody in history, what they’ve done is terrible,” the president added, saying, “I hope, frankly, there are others, because you can’t let this happen to a country.”
Comey lied, Trump said.
“He didn’t think he’d get caught.”
Trump and granddaughter Kai on the South Lawn of the White House (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Asked whether he has concerns that Democrats will target his FBI Director, Kash Patel, after he leaves office, Trump responded: “They did it with me for four years. They went after me. They went after me for four years. And that doesn’t even [include] the four great years that we had in the White House.”
Trump noted that he first began hearing rumors of Russia when he was first elected president.
“I said, What the hell do I have to do with Russia?” he asked. “Nothing. And then it got worse, and worse than some of the fake news picked it up … and they loved it. And we went through a long time with that. And despite that, we had a great first term.”
Trump told Fox News’ Peter Doocy: “This is 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,” he said. “And Comey. Comey was one of the people. He wasn’t the biggest, but he’s a dirty cop. He’s always been a dirty cop.”
“The only problem is, for him, he didn’t think it’d be caught, and he got caught,” Trump added. “He lied. He lied a lot, but this was a very important thing. This was he could have said ‘maybe’ or ‘I don’t remember,’ he didn’t say that. He gave a very specific answer, and then he verified it numerous times, and he got caught. The problem that Comey has is he got caught lying, and he was very strong. It’s not like, well maybe, or I don’t remember, he gave a very specific answer, because it was a very powerful question, a very important question, and when he gave the answer.”
“The only problem,” the president said again, “Is he got caught.”
The Comey indictment stemmed from statements the former FBI director made to Congress in September 2020, when he testified on how he handled the federal investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. The state of limitations would have expired on Comey’s claims made during that hearing on September 30. He is the first former senior administration official to be indicted in relation to the Russia collusion hoax.
