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Trump’s retribution tour: Comey, Indiana Republicans, and ABC

5/1/202626 min

President Trump and his allies seem to be — once again — seeking retribution from people who have gotten on the president’s bad side. We discuss the Justice Department’s new indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, Trump’s efforts to unseat some Indiana Republican state lawmakers, and a renewed fight with ABC's Jimmy Kimmel.

This episode: voting correspondent Miles Parks, Supreme Court and justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and senior political correspondent Tamara Keith.

This podcast was produced by Casey Morell and Bria Suggs, and edited by Rachel Baye.

Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.

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Clips

Justice as Presidential Wish List
FCC Moves After Kimmel Bit
Legal Right And Wrong Lines
When Speech Becomes Threat
A Rare Party Rebuff
Message Over Math
The Cost Of Being Targeted

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First 90 seconds

  1. Brittany Luse0:00

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  2. Miles Parks· Host0:23

    [upbeat music] Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting.

  3. Carrie Johnson· Co-host0:32

    I'm Carrie Johnson. I cover the Justice Department and the Supreme Court.

  4. Tamara Keith· Co-host0:35

    And I'm Tamara Keith, and I cover politics.

  5. Miles Parks· Host0:37

    And a happy Friday to both of you and all our listeners. We're gonna talk about some of the big stories that we haven't hit on the pod yet, starting with news of another indictment against former FBI director James Comey. Carrie, what is the Justice Department alleging Comey did here?

  6. Carrie Johnson· Co-host0:53

    Comey faces two felony charges for allegedly making a threat on the life of President Donald Trump and transmitting that threat across state lines. It all revolves around an Instagram post he put up almost a year ago from a North Carolina beach where he was on vacation. It's a photo of seashells arranged in the numbers 8647, 86 being slang for get rid of, and 47 representing the 47th president, Donald Trump. Now, the Justice Department says that's a credible or true threat against the president of the United

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