Richard Epstein analyzes James Comey's indictment as presidential vengeance using a potentially strong legal case. He argues Trump acts illegally in Venezuela to be feared, benefiting from lack of legal resistance.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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1913 WILSON OPENING DAY
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Financial Times, London reporting. |
| 0:38.6 | US charges ex-FBI chief James Comey, who investigated Donald Trump's alleged Russia ties, subhead. |
| 0:45.1 | Indictment comes just days after U.S. President called for a swift prosecution of his opponents. |
| 0:51.7 | I welcome my colleague, Professor Richard Epstein, teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago. |
| 0:55.8 | He's at the Civitas Institute, the University of Texas at Austin. |
| 0:58.2 | Richard, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:59.8 | Thanks for having me, John. |
| 1:04.6 | The advice from Machiavelli, I think that's a few centuries ago, |
| 1:08.5 | men ought either to be well-treated or crushed because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more |
| 1:13.1 | serious ones they cannot. Therefore, the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a |
| 1:19.1 | kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. I believe that's an Italian genius's way of saying, |
| 1:29.7 | when you strike it a king, you must kill him. |
| 1:33.1 | Yes, there's always one problem with that theory, |
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