Washington : And so it begins.

The indictment of former FBI director James Comey is surely only the start of US President Donald Trump’s long-promised campaign of retribution against his enemies: a lengthy and varied list of people who will feel uneasy as they go to sleep tonight.

In the president’s defence, you can’t say he ever hid his intentions.

Comey, who handled the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign’s links to Russia in 2016, was sacked by Trump in 2017. The following year, less than halfway through his first term, the president was pushing for the Justice Department to lay charges.

“James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR,” Trump ranted on Twitter, as it was then known, in April 2018. “He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congr

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