“Trump’s latest vendetta case against James Comey”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Washington Dc, Msnbc, Politics, News, Government, Versant, Ms Now, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace covers the right-wing backlash against the second indictment against James Comey. Fox News regulars like Jonathan Turley and Andrew McCarthy call the charges against Comey an attack on free speech. Comey is charged with threatening Trump’s life over an Instagram post of seashell art on the beach.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. The reviews are in for Donald Trump's latest move, his latest vendetta case in the courts. And they are brutal. Even from notable MAGA corners and MAGA-friendly legal eagles, They are balking today the criminal charges that have been
0:22.7	levied against former director of the FBI, Jim Comey, over his beach shell art. And Republicans
0:29.5	already deeply, deeply concerned about being wiped out in the midterms and saddled with the
0:35.6	president whose approval ratings keep sinking lower and lower and lower now have fresh fears at voter backlash over a president
0:43.3	who seems completely disinterested in their economic concerns will continue to dig this hole
0:51.1	he's in as Trump's efforts to prosecute his critics and stamp out free speech
0:55.2	in America dominates the headlines coming from the Trump White House.
0:59.5	Jonathan Turley, of all people, he's a Fox News fixture. He is a loyal, avid defender of Donald
1:05.5	Trump. He actually testified for Donald Trump during the impeachment hearings in 2019.
1:10.8	He's even defended Trump's decision to go to war with Iran without consulting Congress first.
1:15.5	Now, today, he's saying this, quote, I would prefer to crawl into one of Comey's conversant shells and write a column supporting him.
1:23.4	However, here we are.
1:24.7	The fact is that I believe that this indictment is facially unconstitutional,
1:29.9	absent some unknown new facts. Turley goes on to say that it is unconstitutional because it
1:36.3	tramples on a right, we as Americans hold dear the right to free speech.
1:41.2	Jonathan Turley, adding this, quote, informing this more perfect union, we created the world's greatest protection of free speech. Jonathan Turley, adding this, quote, informing this more perfect union,
1:45.8	we created the world's greatest protection
1:47.8	to free speech in history.
1:49.7	It is arguably the most American contribution
1:52.2	to our Bill of Rights.
1:54.0	Great Britain did not and still does not
1:56.1	protect free speech as we do.
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