The decision by the Donald Trump administration to force through an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey could come back to haunt Republican lawmakers and ruin their careers, according to some media analysts.
Addressing the baffling success of newly appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in presenting her case before a grand jury that no other prosecutor in her office would touch, because Trump instructed her to, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough claimed the door has now been opened for future presidents to use the same tactics against their own enemies.
The animated Scarborough told co-host Willie Geist, “As we've been saying about the FCC, as we've been saying about so many things that Donald Trump has been doing, especially over the past few weeks, Republicans must understand that what goes around comes around.”
“They must understand that if there's a billionaire independent who decides to be president of the United States, gets elected and then decides to start going after Republicans, Republican senators, Republican House members, Republican judges, Republican political operatives, all that a president will have to do is just pick up the phone, call his or her attorney general and say, ‘Arrest Republican senator A, arrest Republican political opponent, B go after conservative think tank C.’”
“I mean, it's again, extraordinarily dangerous,” he added.
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