Former FBI director Comey charged amid Trump retribution push

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Trump cheered the charges on his Truth Social network.
46% : The grand jury indictment was announced on Thursday by a US prosecutor handpicked by Trump to start her job this week after her predecessor resigned under pressure last week.
37% : At the time she said in a message to office colleagues that she "was summarily fired via memo from Main Justice that did not give a reason for my termination.
33% : " "My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way," he said.
32% : Since taking office in January, Trump has often discussed going after political opponents and other perceived enemies.
32% : Comey's prosecution will be led by Lindsey Halligan, who was named by Trump as the interim US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday.
30% : The Russia investigation was taken over by Special Counsel Robert Mueller after Comey left and haunted Trump for years before it was closed without any charges against him.
30% : Trump supporters have seized on testimony Comey gave to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020, alleging that he committed perjury.
23% : "He has been so bad for our Country, for so long, and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our Nation," Trump wrote on Thursday.
22% : Decision announced by a US prosecutor handpicked by Trump to start her job this week after her predecessor resigned under pressure last week Former FBI Director James Comey was charged with lying to Congress and obstruction related to testimony he gave in 2020, accelerating President Donald Trump's push for legal action against his perceived political enemies.
19% : " Comey served as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2013 until he was fired by Trump in 2017.
15% : Trump ousted Comey while he was overseeing an investigation into whether Trump or anyone associated with his presidential campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
15% : Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas asked Comey during the hearing if he ever authorised anyone to leak information about investigations into Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, or Trump.

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