Trump’s DOJ targets Comey
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
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🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:22.9 | The future of America's financial infrastructure depends on protecting those building it. |
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| 0:35.4 | Today on the Playbook podcast, federal prosecutors indict former FBI director James Comey on two counts. |
| 0:42.8 | Just days after President Donald Trump publicly implored his Justice Department to quickly seek indictments of his perceived foes. |
| 0:51.2 | What we know, what it means, and what comes next. |
| 0:56.1 | Hello, I'm Adam Wren. And I'm Maya Ward. It's Friday, September 26. And this is the |
| 1:01.9 | Playbook podcast. There's a lot of news, so let's get right to what's driving the day. Last |
| 1:07.3 | night, federal prosecutors in Virginia charged former FBI director James Comey with obstruction and making a false statement to Congress. |
| 1:16.6 | That comes, Maya, just days before the five-year statute of limitation runs out on this case. |
| 1:22.1 | And, of course, just days after the president took to true social to demand that Attorney General Pam Bondi more aggressively |
| 1:29.3 | pursue criminal charges against Comey and other political enemies. The charges on this stem from |
| 1:36.2 | Comey's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020 about the FBI's investigation |
| 1:41.6 | into links between Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. |
| 1:46.5 | Comey has denied the accusations, and a video posted last night proclaimed his innocence, |
| 1:52.9 | and he handed at a strategy for challenging the case against him as an act of political vengeance by Trump himself. |
| 2:00.2 | He said, quote, we will not live on our knees, and you shouldn't either, end quote. |
| 2:05.1 | Comey said, my heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the |
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