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President Donald Trump has, according to many legal experts, crossed the Rubicon. After years of

railing against his perceived enemies and publicly

threatening to use the government for his revenge, he's pressured the Justice Department to bring

charges against people he hates, despite warnings from top prosecutors of insufficient evidence.

Now, last week, the DOJ charged and a grand jury narrowly indicted former FBI director

James Comey on allegations that he lied to Congress in 2020.

Comey responded in a video message posted on social media.

My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal

judicial system, and I'm innocent. So let's have a trial.

The indictment followed a campaign by President Trump in public and in private, demanding the DOJ

go after his perceived political enemies, Comey included. President Trump last week pushed out the U.S.

attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia

who resisted bringing the case and replaced him with a White House aide who served as one of his

personal lawyers. She's never prosecuted a case before. This isn't Trump's first attack on the DOJ's

independence. There were mass pardons and clemencies for 1600 January 6 defendants,

even for rioters who attacked police and militia members convicted of seditious conspiracy.

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