‘Is This Retribution?’ Norah O’Donnell Confronts Trump On Whether He’s Using the DOJ to Punish His Foes

President Donald Trump denied he was using the Department of Justice to punish his enemies on Sunday’s 60 Minutes.

CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell confronted the president with the names of political enemies his DOJ has recently charged.

“James Comey, John Bolton, Letitia James were all recently indicted,” O’Donnell said. “There is a pattern to these names. They’re all public figures who have publicly denounced you. Is it political retribution?”

“You know who got indicted?” Trump replied. “The man you’re lookin’ at. I got indicted, and I was innocent. And here I am, because I was able to beat all of the nonsense that was thrown at me. And yet, when you go after a dirty cop like Comey or a guy like Bolton, who I hear has — I don’t know anything about it — I hear he took records all over the place, who knows? Letitia James is a terrible, dishonest person in my opinion.”

“Did you instruct the Department of Justice to go after them?” O’Donnell pressed.

“No, and not in any way, shape, or form. No,” Trump said. “You don’t have to instruct ’em because they were so dirty, they were so crooked, they were so corrupt, that the honest people we have — Pam Bondi’s doing a very good job. Kash Patel’s doing a very good job. The honest people that we have go after them automatically.”

But O’Donnell brought receipts. In a voiceover fact check, she added, “In a Truth Social post from September addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi, President Trump endorsed the idea that former FBI director James Comey and New York attorney general Letitia James, were, quote, ‘Guilty as hell,’ and wrote, quote, ‘Justice must be served, now!!!.’ Five days later, James Comey was indicted. He pled not guilty, and so did Letitia James, and President Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton.”

Watch the clip above via 60 Minutes.

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