Scarborough on Comey Indictment: Not Since Watergate Have We Had Such an Abuse of Power

SCARBOROUGH: “And again, this is a standalone case, John Heilemann. As Danny said, never have we had, facts, certainly not in our political lifetime, certainly not since Watergate, have we had such an abuse of power coming not only from the White House, but also the Justice Department in a charge. And again, let’s just sum this up the way The New York Times did this morning, Maggie Haberman, Alan Feuer, and Jonah Bromwich: ‘An inexperienced prosecutor loyal to President Trump, in the job for less than a week, filed criminal charges against one of her boss’s most reviled opponents. She did not only do so at Mr. Trump’s direct command, but also against the urging of both her own subordinates and her predecessor, who had just been fired for raising concerns that there was insufficient evidence to indict.’ The other professionals, the other people who are probably very concerned about how, after Donald Trump’s first term ended, local bars, not the Democratic Party, but local bar associations and state bar associations actually started going after them for professional lapses, and some got disbarred. Others, unfortunately, ended up in front of judges. It’s, again, it’s chilling, what Donald Trump has done over the past week, especially regarding his orders to start going after his political enemies. But how remarkable that all the other lawyers moved to the side and said, ‘We’re not touching this.’ So you actually had somebody who had never been a prosecutor before having to take this dubious case in front of the grand jury alone.”