Scarborough on Comey Indictment: You Do This, You Turn the Person You Hate Into a Martyr

SCARBOROUGH: “It bears repeating. You do this, you turn the person you hate into a martyr. You make them bigger than ever. You unite people behind them. Donald Trump understood this in his own political campaign, and yet he’s now making Comey a martyr, a martyr for the rule of law. That will be the first line in in his obituary, that he was an FBI director, but that he’s — he became a martyr because a president said on social media to an attorney general, ‘Go and arrest this guy,’ for the first time in our lifetime. And so now the world looks at James Comey, and they see that he’s a political and a legal martyr. Nobody thought that way yesterday. But they sure as hell are going to think that way today and tomorrow and into the future. And again, if you don’t believe me, again, just go back to the 2024 campaign and look how the Republican Party was ready to move on to a certain Florida governor, and then the indictment starting started coming down against Donald Trump and that brought the Republican Party together behind him and eventually led him to be elected the next president of the United States. This is not hard. And yet the White House keeps making the same — Jimmy Kimmel, record numbers. I mean, talk about going viral. It’s extraordinary what Donald Trump did for Jimmy Kimmel’s career and what he has now done for James Comey’s reputation. That’s the political side of it. Really quickly, before we go, I want to ask you first, Danny, and then I’ll get to Barb on the prosecutor’s side, but as a defense attorney, Danny, tell me, what would you do if you had the president of the United States saying to his attorney general, ‘This guy is my political enemy. Arrest him. He’s got to be put in jail. He’s guilty as hell,’ saying something along those lines. ‘He’s guilty as hell. He’s one of the worst people in the world. Time’s running out.’ You remember that one? ‘Time’s running out. His statute of limitations. You got to do it now. We’ve got to bust this guy!’ Okay, I have just — I’ve just put the ball on the tee and given you a bat to hit with it. What would you do hitting that ball off the tee? It seems like an open-and-shut case, doesn’t it?”