A Disastrous Day in Court for Trump

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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A federal judge on Monday tossed out separate criminal charges against the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and New York’s attorney general, Letitia James. The manner in which the judge dismissed the Comey indictment could now lead to a legal fight over whether the government can try to refile the charges with another grand jury. Devlin Barrett, who covers the Justice Department and the F.B.I. for The New York Times, discusses President Trump’s campaign of retribution against his perceived enemies and walks us through the judge’s rulings

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.
0:03.8	This is the daily.
0:09.4	On Monday afternoon, a federal judge threw out the criminal charges that the Trump administration brought against two of the president's biggest enemies.
0:20.3	Today, the unexpected technicality that doomed the cases
0:25.1	and what the ruling will mean for Trump's ambitious second-term campaign of retribution.
0:35.5	It's Tuesday, November 25th.
0:43.7	Devlin, thank you for, as you always do, dropping everything and coming into the studio on a breaking news night.
0:51.9	Thanks for having me.
0:53.1	It's old hat for you at this point.
0:55.9	Always tired, never bored.
0:57.7	That's my life.
0:58.6	Amen.
0:59.5	So I think it's fair to say that nothing embodied the progress
1:05.6	that President Trump has been making
1:07.9	in his campaign of retribution against his enemies
1:10.7	so much as the indictments of
1:14.7	James Comey, the former FBI director, and Letitia James, the current Attorney General of New York.
1:22.4	And just a couple hours ago, a judge tossed out both of them in one fell swoop.
1:29.8	Right, because this retribution campaign by the president has delivered some incredible scalps for the president and what he wants.
1:39.1	But it did so in a very legally risky way, a very, I think a lot of people would say factually risky way.
1:48.3	And as important as these cases are and as alarming as it has been to some people to see the president publicly order prosecution of people he doesn't like, I think the unanswered question until
2:05.6	Monday was, would the court system go along with this? Would judges go along with this?
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