America Isn’t Supposed to Have Political Prosecutions

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Trump Is Barely Pretending About Comey Anymore The vindictive and meritless plot against the former FBI director is being orchestrated almost entirely in public view.

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by @jonathanbchait.bsky.social "The current charge against Comey, in short, relies on a tendentious interpretation of an innocuous term combined with a disregard for the First Amendment in order to gin up charges against a man Trump has been targeting openly for nearly a decade"

Advocating violence against a public official is protected speech as long as it isn’t specific. That is one reason that Trump’s January 6, 2021, speech urging an angry and armed crowd to “fight like hell” to overturn the election result could not be prosecuted. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump Is Barely Pretending About Comey Anymore The vindictive and meritless plot against the former FBI director is being orchestrated almost entirely in public view. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

BLUF: Trump’s incompetence is also unsettling. Future plots to imprison a critic of the MAGA movement might not be undermined by a loudmouth president who can’t help but give away the scheme.

"Not for the first time, the president’s clumsiness is likely to negate his malevolence, though not without considerable cost, in time and money, to Comey." The latest from @jonathanbchait.bsky.social...

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"Trump showed Blanche the man, and Blanche found the crime." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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#Gift Trump sends goons after critics despite the critics not having broken any laws. This is #autocracy & #evil. "During his second term, however, Trump has sought to bring criminal charges against apparently anybody who defies or displeases him." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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"The difference between security agencies in democracies and secret-police forces is that the former have to obey laws and not just follow the whims of the head of state" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Yet here we are!

"Future plots to imprison a critic of the MAGA movement might not be undermined by a loudmouth president who can’t help but give away the scheme." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Impeachable offense no. one zillion: 👇 " #ThatAsshole showed #Blanche the man, and Blanche found the crime." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Trump Is Barely Pretending About Comey Anymore The vindictive and meritless plot against the former FBI director is being orchestrated almost entirely in public view. By Jonathan Chait 🎁 article www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump Is Barely Pretending About Comey Anymore - The vindictive and meritless plot against the former FBI director is being orchestrated almost entirely in public view www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“Legal filings submitted by James Comey this week argue that the Trump administration has subjected the former FBI director to a vindictive and meritless prosecution. What stands out is how little effort the president put into pretending this is not the case.”

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"The current charge against Comey, in short, relies on a tendentious interpretation of an innocuous term combined with a disregard for the First Amendment in order to gin up charges against a man Trump has been targeting openly for nearly a decade"

Heartwarming story about a man and his dog (pictured here). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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