The irony is that no one on earth, not even Donald Trump himself, is more responsible for Trump’s presidency — now in its second term — than Jim Comey. Personally, Comey would rather have been responsible for the plague, such is his loathing of Trump. Because the feeling is mutual, there is a chance the former FBI director could be indicted, as early as today.
Against the judgment of Erik Siebert, the detached, experienced prosecutor he first hand-picked then fired, Trump is demanding that the Justice Department indict his bête noire. This is vengeance — lawfare, not law enforcement. And to repeat what I argued in an essay in National Review magazine on Trump’s impeachable leveraging of the justice system against his political enemies, the main objective of lawfare is ruin, not criminal convictions or civil judgments: “Lawfare makes the process the punishment. Trump’s targets will be put through the wringer to which he was subjected: searches, audits, legal fees, and constant anxiety.”
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