# AP: “Ex-FBI Director James Comey indicted on charges of lying to Congress and obstruction”

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-ex-fbi-director-james-comey-indicted-on-charges-of-lying-to-congress-and-obstruction/1023402/23 "2025-09-26T05:19:09Z")

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> [@bordelond](#):
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> According to Substacker Jay Kuo, **[this is already happening](https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-authoritarianism-stalled-tide-turning)**. See the section titled “ _Trump’s weaponization keeps running aground_” about 3/4 of the way down.

Perhaps. But I said in a different thread:

> [@The argument that Trump will do whatever he wants and no one can stop him is really fucking boring](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/1143):
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> On the one hand, we could view these as failures which show their incompetence and their willingness to waste their time on hopeless nonsense.
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> On the other hand — if their objective is to _delegitimize the courts entirely_ by stringing together a series of failures which “actually” show the courts are “corrupt” and “useless” in order to prepare the ground for some new anti-democratic atrocity, well, this is a pretty good approach.

“Can you _believe_ how these so-called ‘judges’ keep standing in the way as we attempt to take down these _terrible people_ who we _all know_ are enemies of America? We gotta _do_ something!”

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