President Donald Trump has long promised to prosecute the people he sees as his enemies.
Last week, he started to make good on that promise.
The Department of Justice has indicted former FBI Director James Comey.
Comey is charged with giving a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
If convicted, Comey faces a possible sentence of up to five years in prison.
It's a huge deal, not just for the fact that this is a former FBI director,
but this is one of Trump's number one enemies.
That's our colleague, Sadie Gurman, who covers the Justice Department.
After Comey's indictment came out, Trump said he expected there would be more.
So Trump stood on the White House lawn and basically said he hoped to see more of his enemies be prosecuted by the Justice Department.
This has been going on for years and years now, even during the first term.
What we saw from Trump was some serious pressure to have the Justice Department go after his adversaries and show leniency to his allies.
But what's different about this Justice Department in the second administration is that they seem to be sort of giving into that pressure.
It's the first real case where we see Trump getting what he wants,
basically having one of his adversaries be charged by his Justice Department.
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It's Monday, September 29th.
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