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Trump is now openly mimicking the dictators he admires so much

David French Columnist September 29, 2025 — 11.30am

There are times when I miss practising law because – right now – there are few more important posts for defending the rule of law and the integrity of the American system of justice than on James Comey’s defence team.

Let’s be clear – perfectly clear – about what happened last week. On Thursday, a federal grand jury, acting on the urging of President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, Comey, a former director of the FBI. The indictment was the culmination of a transparently vindictive campaign by Trump to get revenge on his political enemies, no matter the facts or the law.

Let’s rewind the clock to May 2017. At the tim

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