Former FBI chief Comey charged as Trump ramps up campaign against critics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Trump, who has pressured Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey and other critics, celebrated the news.
51% : " Trump and Comey have had an acrimonious relationship since the start of the president's first term.
30% : " Trump has threatened to imprison his political rivals since he first ran for president in 2015, but Thursday's indictment marks the first time his administration has succeeded in securing a grand jury indictment against one of them.
28% : Since Trump returned to office last January, his Justice Department has been examining Comey's 2020 testimony when he addressed Republican criticisms of the Russia investigation and denied that he had authorised disclosures of sensitive information to the news media.
19% : Trump faced federal charges of mishandling classified documents and trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
18% : Trump fired him as FBI director days after Comey publicly confirmed that the president was under investigation over his election campaign's connections to Russia.
17% : Trump repeatedly attacked the investigation as a "witch hunt."
14% : " Trump fired Comey in 2017, early in his first term in office.
14% : "Donald Trump has ordered the criminal prosecutions of political targets, and the Department of Justice is corruptly obeying," said Norm Eisen, a prominent former government ethics official under Democratic President Barack Obama and currently a fellow at the Brookings Institution.
14% : His second administration has sought to undermine conclusions by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in which Trump defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

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