Transcript: Trump Threats to Jail Foes Darken amid Damning DOJ Leaks

Parker: Well, right. And, of course, you know, no one is above the law, and any public official who, you know, abuses their office to do illegal things should be subject to criminal prosecution—as I and many others argued with respect to Mr. Trump.

But if you just look at what is available to us to understand the situation regarding Mr. Comey, yes, I mean, President Trump started calling for Comey to be prosecuted and jailed during his first term years ago—just for, so it seemed, you know, based on the circumstances, just for doing his job as the FBI director to investigate what has been a substantiated claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

So, yes, you know, when you link all of the things together that have gone on here, not two weeks ago but starting years ago, then yes, you know, this is — this every aspect of this is—is, you know, off the beam from what it is supposed to be. And again, I think you don’t need to look further than all of the people who have left their jobs as DOJ prosecutors in order to get away from doing something they clearly would believe would be inappropriate and legally unethical in this case.