{"id":257129,"date":"2025-09-26T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257129\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:14:10","slug":"live-updates-trump-expects-others-to-face-charges-after-comey-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257129\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump expects others to face charges after Comey indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/james-comey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Comey<\/a> was charged Thursday with lying to Congress in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute the former FBI director and other perceived political enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment makes Comey the first former senior government official involved in one of Trump\u2019s chief grievances, the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-america-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-russia-48f9d5132d7a4e2d823edad8fc407979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-concluded investigation into Russian interference<\/a> in the 2016 election, to face prosecution. Trump has for years derided that investigation as a \u201choax\u201d and a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d despite multiple government reviews showing Moscow interfered on behalf of the Republican\u2019s campaign, and has made clear his desire for retribution.<\/p>\n<p>Comey, in a video he posted after his indictment, said: \u201cMy heart is broken for the Department of Justice but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I\u2019m innocent. So let\u2019s have a trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Other news we\u2019re following:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" id=\"rte-d23d3452-9a6b-11f0-a822-e5a561c66097\">\n<li><b>New import taxes: <\/b>Trump said Thursday that <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tariffs-taxes-furniture-imports-trucks-cabinets-30e0ca1409747e92f374b436e9fef64d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he will put import taxes<\/a> of 100% on pharmaceutical drugs, 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25% on heavy trucks starting on Oct. 1. While he did not provide a legal justification, he said that the taxes were needed \u201cfor National Security and other reasons.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><b>Trump orders crackdown on \u2018domestic terrorists\u2019: <\/b>Trump is directing his administration <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-executive-order-domestic-networks-democrats-9dfc1257ee12cbd376fd53c3ad084327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to crack down on backers of what it described as \u201cleft-wing terrorism,\u201d<\/a> naming two top Democratic donors as he alleged without evidence a vast conspiracy to finance violent protests against the government.<\/li>\n<li><b>Chair of House committee on China demands briefing on TikTok deal: <\/b><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tiktok-trump-select-committee-moolenaar-5ec54fe7c0b4bbad12ede1fb85044457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a statement released Friday<\/a>, Rep. John Moolenaar, the chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, praised the proposed deal as \u201can important step\u201d in transitioning ownership of the TikTok platform to American hands, but he emphasized that \u201cdivestment was not the law\u2019s only requirement.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Comey was charged Thursday with lying to Congress in a criminal case filed days after President Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[327,69,2055,49023,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-257129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-government-and-politics","12":"tag-james-comey","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}