"The indictment of Comey, he said, was tough day for people who believe in the rule of law, who believe in the political norms and the constitutional norms that have shaped this country. The host, who previously served as a GOP congressman, had a pointed warning for his former party colleagues as he warned them against cheering the dangerous new precedent: Republicans must understand that what goes around comes around."
"They must understand that if there's a billionaire independent who decides to be president of the United States, gets elected and then decides to start going after Republicans, Republican senators, Republican House members, Republican judges, Republican political operatives, all that independent will have to do is just pick up the phone, call his or her attorney general and say: Arrest Republican senator A, arrest Republican political opponent B."
A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted former FBI Director James Comey on two felony counts tied to his September 2020 congressional testimony about the bureau's investigation into alleged links between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia. Reactions in Washington were sharply divided, with critics on the left calling the prosecution a dangerous breach of norms and some on the right celebrating what they viewed as accountability. A warning was directed to Republicans that cheering such charges risks normalizing the weaponization of government and enabling future executives to direct prosecutions against political rivals and organizations, undermining constitutional and political norms.
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