Trump Threats to Jail Foes Take Darker Turn amid Damning New DOJ Leaks

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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President Trump’s efforts to prosecute his enemies are suddenly looking even more lawless. Leaks to ABC News just revealed that Justice Department insiders doubt the validity of the prosecution of former FBI director James Comey. This comes after inside sources told MSNBC that a senior prosecutor is resisting indicting New York attorney general Letitia James because the case against her is so weak. Trump is demanding prosecutions of both, and the bucking of his pressure reveals just how corrupt his directives truly are. Meanwhile, Trump just called for the jailing of the governor of Illinois. We talked about all this with former federal prosecutor Kristy Parker, counsel at Protect Democracy. She explains why Trump’s prosecutions are so baseless, what we can read into the resistance inside DOJ, and how it might slow our slide into lawlessness. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. President Trump's lawlessness has just gotten worse on many fronts at once. We just
0:47.1	learned that the Justice Department's prosecution of former FBI director James Comey has been
0:52.3	undercut by a key witness, making it look even more corrupt.
0:56.9	Meanwhile, Trump just called for the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago to be thrown in prison.
1:03.1	And when Mike Johnson was asked about Trump's call for their jailing, the speaker evaded and dodged.
1:09.4	It's becoming jarringly clear that there's very little in the way of defenses standing in the way of Trump's escalating authoritarianism.
1:17.9	And yet at the same time, there is resistance developing inside places like DOJ.
1:23.8	And that matters, even if it doesn't seem like it at this fraught moment.
1:28.3	How do we make sense of all these conflicting signals?
1:31.2	We're trying to dig through all of it today with Christy Parker, who knows DOJ from the inside as a former federal prosecutor and is now counsel at the group Protect Democracy.
1:41.2	Hey, Christy, thanks for coming on.
1:43.1	Hi, Greg. Thanks for having me.
1:45.2	So let's start with Trump's deranged attack on Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago
1:50.4	Mayor Brandon Johnson. Here's what Trump's tweet said, quote, Chicago mayor should be in jail for
1:57.3	failing to protect ICE officers. Governor Pritzker also, close quote.
2:03.0	Christy, this comes after the Illinois governor Pritzker has resisted Trump's corrupt efforts to
2:08.9	send the National Guard into Chicago. Trump is now in effect threatening to jail them for not
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