WASHINGTON (BN24) — President Donald Trump on Friday said he expects additional criminal charges to be brought against his political adversaries following the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, signaling that his administration’s campaign of retribution may expand further.
“It’s not a list, but I think there’ll be others,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for the Ryder Cup golf tournament. “I mean, they’re corrupt. They were corrupt radical left Democrats.”
The comments came a day after the Justice Department charged Comey with making false statements and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors allege he misled Congress in 2020 when he insisted under oath that he had never authorized FBI officials to leak information to the press. The indictment claims Comey directed Columbia law professor Dan Richman, who briefly served as a special government employee at the FBI, to share details of an investigation into Hillary Clinton with reporters.
Legal experts and even some officials inside the Justice Department viewed the evidence as thin. A memo outlining the weaknesses in the case had previously led Erik Siebert, then the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to decline charges. Trump ousted Siebert days later, replacing him with Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide with no prosecutorial background. Halligan pressed ahead, personally presenting the case to a grand jury in Alexandria.
Court filings show the grand jury narrowly approved the indictment, with 14 of 23 jurors voting to bring one of the charges — just over the threshold of 12 required. A third charge was rejected outright.
The unusual handling of Comey’s case has raised concerns about whether Trump’s appointees at the Justice Department and federal field offices could pursue similar charges against other political opponents. Trump has publicly urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought a civil fraud case against him last year, and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California, who led Trump’s first impeachment trial.
“Justice must be served, now!” Trump posted on Truth Social last weekend, grouping Comey, James, and Schiff together as targets.
The administration has already opened a criminal probe into former CIA Director John Brennan, who oversaw the intelligence community’s 2016 assessment of Russian election interference. In recent weeks, the FBI searched the home and office of John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, seizing documents with classification markings. Bolton’s lawyer said the materials had been declassified.
The Comey indictment marks one of the most significant moves in Trump’s broader effort to wield federal law enforcement against political rivals. Critics say it deepens concerns that prosecutorial power is being used for retribution rather than justice.
