The indictment of James Comey for lying to Congress and obstruction of justice has caused a collective meltdown among the left. That includes nearly every reporter, anchor, and analyst within the mainstream press. Instead of having any introspection about how we arrived at this point in our country, they've climbed aboard their high horses to claim that this is the moment where the Department of Justice lost its independence.
It's as if the last decade of politicized prosecutions, including those of the current president, never happened. Democrats and their press allies want you to believe that history began on January 20th, 2025, with everything before that being completely above board.
Yet, in the midst of that laughable attempt at gaslighting, they keep admitting the obvious. Peter Baker of The New York Times was just one of many to fall into that trap.
"It’s not revenge," Trump insists of the prosecution of Comey that he personally demanded. But as he engages in a wide-ranging retribution campaign against his political opponents, his own words and actions suggest otherwise. @tylerpager https://t.co/S8ITgRoqTA
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 27, 2025
I'm not sure if these people don't own a dictionary, but the word "retribution" has a meaning, namely to seek vengeance for a wrong or criminal act. Every single time a Democrat accuses Trump of pursuing retribution, they are admitting he has something to seek retribution for. And to be clear, he certainly does.
We are talking about a president who faced four different indictments during the Biden administration, all of them stretching the law into absurdity. The only one that was successful happened in New York, where a left-wing judge did everything he could to ensure a conviction was delivered from a jury full of Democrats.
It's not just Trump, though. From the beginning of the current president's first term, the left used whatever power it had to weaponize the justice system against its political opponents. The prosecution of Mike Flynn, whatever you think about him personally, was an absolute joke, and once Biden took office, things kicked into overdrive. Dozens of people within Trump's orbit were charged on the most shaky of grounds, never mind the maliciousness of the January 6th prosecutions, which saw people who just stood around facing judges who were more than happy to rig the process against them.
So is Trump seeking retribution? I'd say it doesn't matter. Certainly, some part of what's happening is due to the fact that the president and his DOJ have no desire to let bygones be bygones, but so what? Did Comey lie to Congress or not? Did he obstruct justice or not? He'll get his day in court, and it looks like he'll have a left-wing judge in his corner, but it's telling that Democrats continue to avoid the issue amid all their gnashing of teeth.
We keep hearing about retribution without any discussion about what Trump is seeking retribution for. It's a weak sleight of hand that assumes the left can put the clown nose on when they are in power, going after their political opponents with the full force of the law, while snatching it off the moment they lose elections, demanding Republicans disengage lest it be "retribution."
Sorry, that's not how any of this works. Some of us spent years warning Democrats that if they went down the road of prosecuting their political opponents, they'd lose all benefit of the doubt when the shoe moved to the other foot. The 2024 election did that, and Republicans are not going to pretend like the last decade didn't happen. If that's "weaponization," then so be it. I'd call it necessary because if one side of the political aisle repeatedly gets to change the rules depending on who wins elections, then that will breed a limitless amount of future corruption.
Actions have consequences, and no one who follows politics was born yesterday.
