Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) declared that he has “no religion in Trump’s judicial system” following the administration’s indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.
Whereas showing on Sunday’s episode of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Schumer accused the president of morphing the judicial system into his “personal political fighter.”
“I’ve no religion in Donald Trump’s judicial system. He has turned this judicial system to be his personal political fighter, do what he desires politically, in order that he tells them to go after individuals he doesn’t like,” he advised host Kristen Welker. “He tells them to exonerate folks that he likes. So many individuals are getting pardoned, and this and that.”
Claiming that Trump has “turned this Justice Division into his personal political watchdog,” he added. “It’s horrible.”
Schumer then argued that “no president has achieved this,” including, “That is what autocrats do. That is when Trump says he desires to be king to do it.”
“When he says he doesn’t like Comey, look what occurred there,” Schumer mentioned of Comey, who was indicted final week on obstruction expenses for allegedly making a false assertion and obstruction of a congressional continuing.
Comey’s indictment got here shortly after Trump pushed the Justice Division to prosecute Comey. He additionally repeatedly referred to as on Lawyer Common Pam Bondi to examine a number of of his different political foes, together with New York Lawyer Common Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
“Nothing is being achieved. What about Comey, Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, and Leticia???” Trump wrote in a Sep. 20 Reality Social publish addressed to Bondi. “We are able to’t delay any longer, it’s killing our fame and credibility. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 occasions!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”
Schumer additionally slammed Trump for forcing out the prosecutor who resisted charging Comey and his political opponents. Former U.S. Lawyer Erik Siebert resigned earlier this month after resisting stress from the Trump administration to prosecute Comey and others.
Siebert was changed by Trump’s former private lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, whom he appointed to be U.S. lawyer for the Japanese District of Virginia. She sought an indictment towards Comey, a vocal critic of Trump, simply days after she was appointed.
“The prosecutor who he appointed mentioned, ‘There’s not sufficient proof to indict Comey.’ So he fired this prosecutor and put in somebody who’d do no matter he wished,” Schumer continued.
He added, “Trump’s achieved so many unhealthy issues to undermine our democracy, to undermine our norms. This is likely one of the very worst.”
Trump warned Friday that “there can be others” who can be prosecuted.
“It’s not a listing, however I feel there can be others,” Trump advised CNN’s Kevin Liptak. “I imply, they’re corrupt. These had been corrupt, radical left Democrats. … No, there can be others. That’s my opinion. They weaponized the Justice Division like no one in historical past.”
Trump continued: “What they’ve achieved is horrible, I hope, frankly, there are others as a result of you may’t let this occur to a rustic.”
In the meantime, Vice President JD Vance doubled down on Trump’s claims that others can be prosecuted whereas showing on “Fox Information Sunday.”
“There will definitely be extra indictments coming over the subsequent 3 1/2 years of the Trump administration, however we’re at all times going to let the regulation drive these items and the details of the case, and never political motivations,” Vance mentioned.
Vance denied that Comey’s indictment was “all political.”
“And to the individuals which can be saying that is all political, for those who have a look at our monitor document within the Trump administration, there have been individuals who have been prosecuted who’ve been political allies who agree with our politics,” he mentioned.
Watch Schumer’s look on NBC’s “Meet the Press” beneath.
