The Media Research Center was practically gloating over the Trump administration’s indictment of former FBI director James Comey for committing the offense of investigating Trump, mocking the idea that some would question it:
- Easy, George! Stephanopoulos UNGLUED Over Comey Indictment, ‘Norms…Shattered’
- Comey Gets Indicted, PBS Wails About The ‘Erosion Of Our Democracy’
- ‘Shatter Norms And Carry On’: CBS Mourns Lack Of Pushback To Comey Indictment
- Scott Jennings SCHOOLS Panel Libs on Comey Indictment
- CNN’s Jake Tapper Tries to Trip Speaker Johnson on Comey Indictment, Gets WRECKED
- On PBS, Steve Hayes Taps Brakes on Liberal Hysteria Over Comey Indictment
- STUPID: MSNBC’s Ruhle Tries to Spin Comey Prosecution as Free Speech Assault
The main theme of the MRC’s reaction is that Comey deserves to be the target of Trump’s revenge because Trump was supposedly subjected to “lawfare” by the Biden administration. Jeffrey Lord used his Sept. 27 column to insist that previous presidents were just as legally vindictive as Trump:
The hard fact is that the Biden-run Department of Justice was anything but displaying “the Justice Department’s independence in political prosecutions.” And not only did the Biden-run Justice Department target Trump, but so too did Biden’s Democrat allies in the New York District Attorney’s Office and the office of the Fulton County Georgia’s District Attorney. Both targeted Trump, employing the full weight of their respective prosecutorial offices.
Which is to say, Biden and company staunchly worked against the very idea of a “deference to the agency’s tradition of independence.” Whether it was the federal Department of Justice or local Democrat-run prosecutor offices in New York and Georgia, systems of justice were corrupted outright. To suggest otherwise is a considerable fairy tale.
One could go on. Apparently The Post has forgotten that President Bill Clinton infamously became the very first president to fire all 93 U.S. Attorneys in the country. All, of course, were DOJ employees.
One could go on. But the central fact here is that The Washington Post – in its ongoing anti-Trump vendetta – has deliberately run a seriously wrong story about President Donald Trump’s predecessors having sought “to preserve the Justice Department’s independence in political prosecutions.”
Not so.
Not even close.
Jorge Bonilla spent a Sept. 28 post whining that writer David Remnick called out the blatant revenge motive:
One of the side effects that the Comey Indictment has wreaked upon the Acela Media is its inducement of a 180-degree turn on prosecutions perceived to be political. It’s (D)ifferent, you see, now that Resistance FBI Director James Comey is going to face trial.
[…]In the Year of Our Lord 2025, one might reasonably wonder why Remnick hasn’t yet been penetrated by the stream of facts leading to Comey’s indictment. But the fact is that there is a body of evidence, and there is an indictment handed down by a grand jury.
There was a whole lot of “extraordinary” leading up to this moment that Remnick cheered and celebrated. Now that the show is on the other foot, he reminds us that if it weren’t for double standards, the Acela Media would have none at all.
Bonilla, meanwhile, ignored the stream of facts that document Trump’s criminality.
Tim Graham summarized his employer’s narrative for his Sept. 30 podcast:
The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey caused wailing and gnashing of teeth in the liberal TV studios. The most ridiculous argument came from anyone arguing that suddenly the nonpartisanship of our government prosecutors has come to an unprecedented end, as if Biden didn’t weaponize the Justice Department, and Democrat prosecutors never sought to ruin Trump. Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and Senior Research Analyst Bill D’Agostino join the show to discuss Comey and Antifa.
On Meet the Press, New Yorker editor David Remnick warned about Comey’s indictment, demanded by Trump: “The first term was filled with impulses and the second term is efficient, ruthless and it’s happening every day. This movement toward authoritarianism is very distinct and needs to be taken seriously.”
In his 2010 book The Bridge, Remnick happily forwarded top Obama sycophant Valerie Jarrett claiming Barack Obama was so brilliant that “I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually….He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do.”
So when Remnick paints Trump as an ignorant tyrant, everyone should just know that’s another badly disguised Democrat trying to ruin the Republicans.
On State of the Union, CNN host Jake Tapper pressed House Speaker Mike Johnson to share his objection to Donald Trump over the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey: “Don’t you have any qualms about the — any president telling an attorney general, go after these three political opponents?” Johnson kept telling Tapper that Comey personified the weaponization of the Justice Department against Trump.
PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic moderator Jeffrey Goldberg mourned the Comey indictment by bizarrely claiming the Justice Department has always upheld “the dispassion and impartiality that we’ve always held up to the rest of the world as a gift,” Steve Hayes of the anti-Trump website The Dispatch actually made the conservative point that this is nothing new historically and that Democratic administrations have previously weaponized the Justice Department.
But if this “lawfare” was a bad thing under Democratic presidents, why is it suddenly cool when the president is a Republican? Graham doesn’t explain away this paradox.