Trump hints more prosecutions after Comey: “There will be others”

President Donald Trump said Friday he expects more of his political rivals to face charges following the indictment of former FBI director James Comey — a case he personally urged the Justice Department to bring.

“It’s not a list, but I think there will be others,” Trump told CNN’s Kevin Liptak as he left the White House for the Ryder Cup in New York. “They’re corrupt. These were corrupt, radical left Democrats… you can’t let this happen to a country.”

Comey was indicted Thursday, just days after Trump publicly pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute him and forced out a US attorney who had resisted charging the president’s adversaries. The dramatic move underscored how aggressively Trump is willing to target longtime critics.

Prosecutors charged Comey with two felonies tied to a statement he made to Congress in 2020. At the time, he insisted he hadn’t authorized leaks to the press while running the FBI’s sensitive 2016 investigations. The indictment alleges he did “authorize” a contact to act as an anonymous source.

Trump predicted the case would be “pretty easy,” casting the charges as accountability, not payback.

“It’s about justice really. It’s not revenge,” he said. “He got caught lying to Congress.”

Pressed on whether others could be prosecuted, Trump didn’t name names but left little doubt he expects more indictments. In recent days he has publicly called out Democratic figures including Sen. Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James, urging investigations into them as well.

The Comey indictment lands after months of tension over Trump’s hands-on approach to the Justice Department, which previous presidents generally kept at arm’s length — especially on politically sensitive cases. Trump, by contrast, has made little secret of his desire to see opponents charged and punished.

Comey has denied wrongdoing. The former FBI director — who led the 2016 Russia interference probe and became one of Trump’s earliest high-profile antagonists — now faces a legal fight that could stretch for months.

For Trump, the message Friday was plain: Comey won’t be the last.

“There will be others,” he said. “That’s my opinion.”

With input from the New York Times, CNN, Axios, and the Washington Post.