Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey

President Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July and hit a fever pitch over the last week, culminating in the indictment of one of his foremost enemies.

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Trump’s Repeated Attacks May Undercut Case Against Comey

The president’s voluble vitriol could provide defense lawyers with an avenue to protect the very people he most wants to punish.

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Trump Predicts More Indictments and Claims It’s Not Revenge

The president has cast the indictment as “justice” rather than revenge, but his own words and actions cast doubt on that assertion.

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With Comey Indictment, Trump Gets Retribution but Shatters Norms

A prosecutor’s drive to indict James Comey trampled over the Justice Department’s long tradition of keeping a distance from politics and the White House, and raised the prospect of more arbitrary charges.

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U.S. Attorney Scrambles to Present Case Against James Comey

It remains to be seen whether a career prosecutor would be willing to present a case to a grand jury or whether jurors would bring an indictment.

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Despite Trump’s Pressure on Justice Dept., Certain Safeguards Are Beyond His Reach

The criminal justice system has protections that could ultimately give pause to some of President Trump’s moves for revenge.

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Four NY Prison Officers Plead Guilty to Manslaughter in Taped Beating

Robert Brooks, an inmate of Marcy prison, was forced onto an infirmary examination table and kicked and punched to death. Four officers who rejected plea deals will face trial beginning Oct. 6.

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Halligan, Trump’s Chosen Prosecutor, Takes Over Comey and James Cases

The president is pushing up against the statute of limitations in his pursuit of charges against a former F.B.I. director, and also wants the attorney general of New York and a California senator prosecuted.

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Fight Erupts Over Fate of U.S. Attorney Investigating Two Trump Foes

Trump officials told Erik S. Siebert that he was likely to be fired. He had hit roadblocks investigating New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.

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Fight Erupts Over Fate of U.S. Attorney Investigating Two Trump Foes

Trump officials told Erik S. Siebert that he was likely to be fired. He had hit roadblocks investigating New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.

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