Trump eyes next targets as Comey charges foreshadow more indictments

The article discusses the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey by the Justice Department, seen by President Donald Trump and his allies as the beginning of a broader crackdown on officials they accuse of abusing government power to target Trump during and after his presidency. Comey faces felony charges of making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and others anticipate further indictments of prominent democratic figures and government officials.

Key individuals under investigation or potentially facing charges include Senator Adam Schiff, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, all referred for alleged mortgage fraud. Christopher Wray,former FBI Director,is also suggested as a subject of potential inquiry due to alleged misconduct,including misleading Congress and controversial actions during the January 6 Capitol riot.

Additionally, billionaire donor George Soros and his Open Society Foundations are being investigated for possible racketeering-related offenses, a move the foundations call politically motivated. former obama intelligence officials John Brennan and james Clapper are also under renewed scrutiny and investigation for their roles in promoting the discredited Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

The article highlights that Comey’s indictment is only the first step in a series of expected prosecutions, as Trump and his supporters seek to hold their perceived adversaries accountable for what they describe as a politically motivated “weaponization” of justice. The statute of limitations may not limit further actions since ongoing conduct could extend legal timelines. Ultimately, these developments reflect ongoing political battles over accountability and justice related to the Trump administration and its aftermath.


Trump eyes next targets as Comey charges foreshadow more indictments

The Justice Department’s indictment of former FBI Director James Comey last week marked the start of what President Donald Trump and his allies say will be a broader reckoning for figures who, in their view, abused government power to target him during and after his first term.

Just days before the charges were filed, Trump took to Truth Social, urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D). The next day, Comey was indicted on two felony counts: making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

“I think there’ll be others,” Trump told reporters after a grand jury indicted Comey on two charges for lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. “They’re corrupt. These were corrupt, radical-left Democrats. They weaponized the Justice Department like nobody in history.”

Vice President JD Vance echoed that message. “There’s certainly going to be more indictments coming over the next three and a half years,” he said on Fox News Sunday. “We’re letting the requirements of the justice system and the law drive this.”

Here’s who else is under investigation — or could be indicted next

Adam Schiff, Letitia James, and Lisa Cook

Schiff, one of Trump’s top adversaries during the Russia investigation, in both impeachments, and during the Jan. 6 committee probe, has become a focus of a mortgage fraud investigation. In July, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte referred Schiff for allegedly misrepresenting the status of a California home purchase, which could potentially violate federal mortgage laws.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) arrives for a classified briefing about President Donald Trump’s directed strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last weekend and his announcement on Monday that the two countries had reached a ceasefire agreement, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ideas

Schiff has denied wrongdoing and says the investigation is politically driven. He told NBC’s Meet the Press in August that “mortgage is their new weapon to go after their critics.”

Trump has repeatedly cited Schiff as a “proven liar,” and the DOJ has confirmed that it is conducting a probe into him. Schiff also accused Trump of ousting former acting U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert after Siebert declined to move forward with charges against him.

James, who brought the landmark civil fraud case that nearly resulted in Trump losing control of his real estate empire, is also under investigation by the DOJ for potential mortgage fraud after a similar referral was filed by Pulte.

That investigation stems from allegations that James improperly claimed a Virginia residence as her primary home while holding statewide office in New York.

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a news conference outside Manhattan federal court in New York, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Trump has publicly pressed for her prosecution and reportedly grew frustrated with the lack of movement in the case, and Siebert’s removal appeared to have been in part due to this discontent. Lindsey Halligan, his successor, was sworn in the same week she indicted Comey and has not commented on the James probe.

James has denied wrongdoing, and the Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a legal defense fund on her behalf.

Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who is in the middle of a legal battle over Trump’s attempt to remove her from office, was also referred by Pulte to the DOJ for alleged mortgage fraud related to a mortgage on an Ann Arbor, Michigan home and another in Atlanta, Georgia.

Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook listens during an open meeting of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

The Trump administration alleges that she lied to her lenders when obtaining the two mortgages and that she improperly told both lenders that the loan was for a primary residence. Cook has denied wrongdoing.

Christopher Wray

Earlier this week, Trump suggested that he would like to see an investigation into former FBI Director Christopher Wray, who Trump appointed during his first term but fired earlier this year.

“I would imagine. I would certainly imagine. I would think they are doing that,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News when asked if the DOJ should investigate Wray. There is no indication that Wray is under investigation at this time.

Wray’s critics say he misled Congress on multiple occasions — and that new evidence could expose broader misconduct during his tenure.

The most serious allegation concerns the deployment of 274 plainclothes FBI agents to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump has claimed the agents acted as “agitators,” although no evidence supports that characterization. FBI Director Kash Patel, who succeeded Wray, said the agents were deployed after the riot began in response to Capitol Police requests, but that the mission violated FBI protocols and should have been disclosed to Congress.

FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered numerous instances from former Deputy Director Chris Wray’s tenure where the then-director misled the public on key issues.

“This was the failure of a corrupt leadership that lied to Congress and to the American people about what really happened.” Patel said this week. “Thanks to agents coming forward, we are now uncovering the truth.”

Separate records revealed in June by the FBI showed Wray also misled Congress about the FBI’s controversial 2023 memo targeting so-called “Radical Traditionalist Catholics.” Initially described as an isolated product of the Richmond field office, the memo was actually distributed to more than 1,000 FBI employees across at least four additional field offices, internal documents show. The memo cited the Southern Poverty Law Center and warned that traditionalist Catholic communities posed domestic terrorism risks.

Wray told Congress in March 2023 that the FBI had produced “a single product” and that it was withdrawn as soon as it was discovered. But records obtained from the bureau by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) suggest that not only was the memo widely circulated, but FBI leadership later sought to erase its digital footprint. Internal emails show a top official ordered the deletion of a spreadsheet listing employees who accessed the memo, and Grassley has now asked current FBI leadership to investigate whether this amounted to obstruction.

“The reported permanent loss of records related to the production of the memo … shows once again that Director Wray’s previous testimony to Congress … was false,” Grassley wrote in a letter to Director Patel this summer.

George Soros and Open Society Foundations

Trump has long called for the prosecution of billionaire Democratic donor George Soros and his son Alexander, accusing their nonprofit network — Open Society Foundations (OSF) — of bankrolling violent protests and undermining the rule of law.

Last week, The New York Times reported that the DOJ under Bondi directed several U.S. Attorney’s Offices to draft investigative plans into OSF’s operations. Prosecutors are reportedly exploring potential charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

Trump eyes next targets as Comey charges foreshadow more indictments

In a statement, OSF said the effort was politically motivated. “These accusations are politically motivated attacks on civil society, meant to silence speech the administration disagrees with and undermine the First Amendment,” the group said.

A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment, but officials familiar with the effort told the Times the department is still determining whether OSF’s international and domestic funding channels could fall under existing federal conspiracy statutes.

John Brennan and James Clapper

Trump’s allies have renewed calls to prosecute former Obama intelligence officials John Brennan and James Clapper for their role in promoting the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Both men helped draft the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that concluded Russia aimed to help Trump win the 2016 election — a conclusion now under renewed scrutiny.

Trump eyes next targets as Comey charges foreshadow more indictments

In July, former Trump Director of National Intelligence and current CIA Director John Ratcliffe stated that he had submitted criminal referrals for both Brennan and Clapper, citing newly declassified evidence that contradicts their public statements and internal claims made during the creation of the ICA. Soon after, it was revealed in a Fox News report that the pair were being investigated by the FBI.

The investigative effort gained steam after the release of internal CIA and DNI memos showing that Brennan and Clapper lacked credible evidence to support the ICA’s key finding — that Russian President Vladimir Putin preferred Trump. In fact, the underlying intelligence suggested Putin expected Hillary Clinton to win and harbored concerns about Trump’s unpredictability. Nonetheless, Brennan pushed to include the now-discredited Steele dossier in the ICA, despite later publicly denying that he’d done so.

Brennan and Clapper defended their role in a New York Times op-ed in July. Still, their claims have been undermined by records uncovered by Gabbard and Ratcliffe, as well as prior findings from the House Intelligence Committee and a CIA “lessons learned” review — both of which found that Brennan bypassed standard safeguards to reach a politically charged conclusion for which he had no actual evidence.

While former Special Counsel John Durham did not indict Brennan or Clapper, his report about the origins of the Russia investigation documented significant bias and misconduct across the agencies involved. Durham found that Obama-era officials aggressively pursued Trump with little corroborated evidence while ignoring stronger leads involving Clinton. He also uncovered a CIA referral that Brennan apparently sidelined an August 2016 intelligence report that stated Clinton planned to tie Trump to Russia as an election tactic.

Comey’s indictment is only the first

Last month, Trump publicly said he “wouldn’t mind seeing Brennan and Comey handcuffed on live TV.”

Now, Comey is slated for an Oct. 9 arraignment before a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, federal court, as the prospect for additional indictments ramps up. The statute of limitations for the false statements and obstruction charges levied at Comey was set to expire Tuesday, just days after the indictment was filed, giving prosecutors a narrow window to charge Comey over his 2020 testimony to Congress.

For other possible indictments aimed at former officials who could be accused of abusing their power, the statute of limitations is less of a concern for prosecutors and Trump officials. Ratcliffe previously told Fox News in July that the statute of limitations does not begin to run until “the last act in the furtherance of that conspiracy.”

“Part of why this is so important is that the people behind this are still furthering the conspiracy,” Ratcliffe said.

The indictment against Comey stems from testimony he gave before the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath in September 2020, in which he reaffirmed his statements from a separate 2017 testimony, in which he said that he did not authorize media leaks related to an FBI probe into the Clinton Foundation. However, his former deputy, Andrew McCabe, has said otherwise — a contradiction that has fueled years of GOP appetite to indict the former director for allegedly lying under oath.

Comey’s close relationship with Daniel Richman, a Columbia University professor whom Comey hired at the FBI as a special government employee, has also come under scrutiny since the indictment. Comey admitted in 2017 to providing Richman with memos that outlined meetings with Trump during his first term and asked him to share some of his memos with a New York Times reporter. According to a 2018 inspector general report, Richman claimed he was assisting Comey by getting “information out that … was unclassified, unprivileged,” and “of enormous national importance.”

The report from former Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded that Comey’s version of events was more credible than McCabe’s, noting that Comey had denied the leak under oath to investigators and that the “overwhelming weight of evidence” supported his account. McCabe, by contrast, was found to have “lacked candor” multiple times under oath and was faulted for violating FBI policy.

Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation James Comey at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics’ JFK Jr. Forum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Still, Horowitz blamed Comey for his behavior, saying his actions “violated Department or FBI policy, or the terms of Comey’s FBI Employment Agreement.”

“As described in this report, we conclude that Comey’s retention, handling, and dissemination of certain Memos violated Department and FBI policies, and his FBI Employment Agreement,” Horowitz added.

Comey, in a video posted to Instagram last week, called the prosecution politically motivated and vowed to fight the charges at trial. “We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either,” he said.

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While convictions for lying to Congress are rare due to the difficulty of proving intent, the charges against Comey matter to Republicans who view Trump’s second term as a chance to apply the same standards of accountability that have been imposed by Democratic administrations against Trump’s past and present allies.

Comey’s case echoes prior prosecutions for lying to Congress, including those of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen and former adviser Roger Stone. Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 for charges that included false statements and campaign finance violations. Stone was convicted in 2020 of obstruction and lying to Congress during the Russia investigation, before receiving a pardon from Trump.



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