Sen. Chuck Schumer says he has ‘no faith in Trump’s judicial system’ after Comey indictment
The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., said on Sunday that he had “no confidence in Trump’s judicial system” and accused the president of having undermined democracy by going after the former director of the FBI James Comey and other political enemies.
Schumer said that on the “press meeting” of NBC News that President Donald Trump “transformed this judicial system to be his own political fighter, [to] Do what he wants, politically, so that he tells them to continue the people he does not like. He tells them to exempt the people he loves. »»
Schumer underlined Comey, who was charged last week to make a false declaration and obstruction of a congress procedure, only a few days after the president said that Attorney General Pam Bondi is expected to continue him. Trump also called on the Ministry of Justice to investigate other political enemies, including the Prosecutor General of New York Letitia James and Senator Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
“When he says he doesn’t like Comey, look at what happened there,” said Schumer, Kristen Welker, said Schumer.
“Trump did so many bad things to undermine our democracy, to undermine our standards. It is one of the worst,” added Schumer.
The minority chief also underlined the staff changes in the American prosecutor’s office in the Virginia Oriental District, where former American prosecutor Erik Siebert resigned earlier this month after pressing the Trump administration to continue Comey.
The American lawyer for the new interim Lindsey Halligan, who sat on Trump’s defense team in an unrelated case before taking office for a second term, asked for an indictment against Comey only a few days after his appointment. NBC News reported that Halligan had presented the case to a large jury only after career prosecutors in his office informed him that they thought that the probable cause did not exist to obtain an indictment against Comey.
Comey argued that he did nothing wrong, saying in a video published on Instagram after the indictment that “I am innocent, so let’s make a trial and keep the faith”.
Meanwhile, the president celebrated the news of the indictment last week, writing in an article on social social that the case was an example of “justice in America!”
“One of the worst human beings to which this country has ever been exposed is James Comey,” he added.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday”, vice-president JD Vance denied that Comey’s indictment was politically motivated.
“We will always let the law lead this kind of thing and the facts of the case and not political motivations,” said Vance.
He added later: “The idea that this is motivated by politics, I think, is absurd when you really read the details of the indictment and the obvious fact that James Comey was under oath to the congress several times.”
Vance also told Fox News that there would be “certainly more accusations to come in the next three and a half years of the Trump administration”.
Schumer also talked about Trump’s announcement on Sunday that he ordered the Ministry of Defense to send troops to Portland, calling for the “indefensible” move.
“What we have always had in America is when there are problems, domestic problems, in terms of security, in terms of violence, it is local police services, local sheriffs, state sheriffs dealing with the problem,” said the minority chief.
He said the former presidents would have chosen to call the Oregon Governor to provide help and support for crime problems, and Trump has moved away from previous standards.
“The Governor of Oregon said,” We don’t need you. ” And yet, it arrives and brings these troops.
