When Donald Trump made it clear that he wanted the Justice Department to go after former FBI Director James Comey, the president faced a fair amount of resistance from officials who were ostensibly members of his own team.
For example, Erik Siebert, the Trump-nominated U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, refused to pursue the case. Career prosecutors similarly explained in detail and in writing that the evidence didn’t support charging Comey. Even John Durham, a Trump-appointed special counsel, reviewed the allegations and opted not to follow through on them.
But perhaps most notably, there were multiple reports that Attorney General Pam Bondi herself was not on board with charging the former FBI director and had voiced concerns behind the scenes.
The president orchestrated Comey’s indictment anyway.
Two weeks later, Bondi was also apparently on the outside looking in when the next member of Trump’s enemies list was also charged. The New York Times reported:








