From New York Times, I'm Michael Babarro. This is the Daily.

On Thursday night, a grand jury indicted the former director of the FBI, James Comey, in a case that Trump

has personally demanded that federal prosecutors pursue,

despite their own serious doubts about whether Comey committed a crime.

Today, my colleague, Devlin Barrett, on what's in the indictment,

and what it means for Trump's ongoing campaign of retribution.

It's Friday, September 26th.

Devil, and it's late at night, 9.15 on Thursday night, and I'm grateful for you making time for us.

Happy to be here.

This, Devalin, is an indictment that we're going to be talking about.

The President Trump has always wanted to bring against James Comey, his longtime nemesis.

But it's an indictment that almost every government prosecutor that

has looked at it has actually said, we don't want to bring it, because they didn't think

there was enough evidence to ever get to a conviction. And yet, here we are. Yeah, this is a huge

moment for the country. You have a former FBI director indicted, and it's huge for a bunch of reasons, but I think most importantly, it is the culmination. It is the result of a very public and incessant campaign of retribution by President Trump

to use the justice system that he resents,

that he distrusts, that went after him,

to instead use that system to pursue his enemies,

to use DOJ as a tool against the people

that he blames for his own legal problems.

And that makes for a frankly scary and tumultuous and uncertain moment at the entire Justice Department

because I don't think anyone who works in that space thinks Trump is going to stop with the indictment of Jim Comey.

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