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On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey for lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation. These charges mark the culmination of President Donald Trump’s yearslong campaign of retribution against Comey, whom he blames for hobbling his presidency by investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump had already fired Comey from the FBI in 2017, but apparently that was not enough: He also seeks to put his adversary behind bars. To secure an indictment, Trump had to push out qualified prosecutors who refused to charge a spurious indictment and replace them with a wildly unqualified loyalist—a

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