Has Trump's lawfare blown up in his face?
The News Agents - USA
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🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The former FBI director James Comey has walked free after his indictment was thrown out by a judge who decided the presiding attorney was actually invalid. It’s a tricky moment for Donald Trump, who had pursued his enemies in the hope of putting behind bars people who he called “bad” - and led to accusations of “vindictive prosecution“ by the President.
But already, the administration's ire has turned to its next victims - former astronaut and Arizona senator Mark Kelly. A decorated, highly respected military man who finds himself facing a possible court martial for sedition after Pete Hegseth's latest outburst.
What effect are these arrests and investigations having on America's institutions? And after the resignation of outspoken congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, is Trump starting to lose his grip on his own base? We talk to the New York Times journalist Mark Landler.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | When I was a kid, my parents would wake us up for school every morning by snapping open the shades and saying, |
| 0:20.3 | time to rise and shine and show the world what |
| 0:22.9 | you're made of. |
| 0:24.9 | Well, it's that time, America. |
| 0:27.4 | It's time to stand up and show the fools who would frighten us, who would divide us, |
| 0:33.7 | that were made of stronger stuff, that we believe in the rule of law, that we believe in the |
| 0:39.2 | importance of doing things by the law. So stand tall, shine, and keep the faith. |
| 0:47.5 | That was James Comey, with his rallying cry to, you heard it, America, after a judge dismissed the case against him and said |
| 0:57.8 | that it couldn't stand. It was, in fact, illegal. And the same applied to the New York attorney, |
| 1:03.3 | Letitia James. That case also thrown out. So where does this leave Donald Trump's policy |
| 1:10.7 | of vengeance, of going after his enemies |
| 1:14.0 | and using the law against them? Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:20.5 | The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopal. It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:26.8 | And what happened yesterday, I mean, in some |
| 1:29.9 | ways could have been anticipated, but the case that had been brought with such fanfare and support of |
| 1:36.7 | Donald Trump to prosecute the former FBI director James Comey, who Trump fell out with spectacularly in the first term, and Letitia James, |
| 1:47.5 | who was the district attorney in New York, who brought the case against the Trump organization, |
| 1:54.0 | leading to fines of $40 million. Both cases thrown out by a judge who said, the acting attorney, and there's a lot of attorneys here, |
| 2:05.0 | the person who had been given the task of bringing the prosecution case against these two |
| 2:10.9 | had been appointed unlawfully and didn't have the authority to do what she did. In simple terms, it was a massive |
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