Revenge

A gunman wearing a ski mask, a pistol in his hand, kicked down the door, broke into his home. He was sixteen, home alone, with his younger brother.

Pinning the brother to the floor, knee in the middle of his back, putting the gun to the brother’s ear, the gunman stared across the room at him.

‘You move and I’ll blow his head off.’

He prayed, started talking to the gunman – the gunman locked both boys in the bathroom, propped a chair against the door. The two boys climbed out a window, escaped.

Every night for the next five years he fell asleep with a knife beneath his pillow. Ten years later, a prosecutor, working for the New York U.S. Attorney, he put criminals in jail. After 9/11, George Bush made him head of the U.S. Attorney’s office – a year later made him Deputy Attorney General in Washington.

Calm, soft-spoken, getting along with people he disagreed with, James Comey supported John McCain and Mitt Romney for president – got another surprise in 2013 when Obama made him head of the FBI.

Hillary’s email scandal landed in his lap. After investigating he said Hillary was careless in handling classified documents but the FBI found no evidence she intentionally violated the law. Closed the investigation. That made Republicans mad.

Two weeks before the election another investigation, into a Democrat Congressman, turned up new evidence about Hillary’s emails. He reopened the investigation. That made Democrats mad.

The FBI started investigating Russia meddling in our election. And made Trump mad.

Trump won, summoned him to the White House, asked him to pledge loyalty to Trump. He promised Trump honesty instead. Trump called him back to the White House, talked about letting Michael Flynn off the hook. Comey wouldn’t agree to that. Trump fired him.

Eight years later, back in the White House, angry at Biden for having the Justice Department prosecute him, Trump started using the Justice Department as a weapon of his own. Like Biden did. Still fuming over the ‘Russia Hoax’ investigation Trump set out to indict Comey. The U.S. Attorney in Virginia refused. Trump fired him.

Trump also fired Comey’s daughter, Maurenne, who was working as a prosecutor in New York.

On Truth Social Trump told Attorney General Pam Bondi: Pam, They’re all guilty as hell…We can’t delay any longer…JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!

Trump’s new U.S. Attorney indicted Comey.

Comey said he’d known for years standing up to Trump came with a cost, added, We will not live our lives on our knees and you shouldn’t either. Somebody that I love dearly – he was talking about his daughter – recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she’s right. But I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either… let’s have a trial and keep the faith.

On Truth Social Trump branded Comey one of the worst human beings ever – said more indictments are coming.

Now, stop a moment and consider this: James Comey had been out of office for 8 years. He had no role in the lawsuits against Trump.

Ask yourself one other question: If Biden was the one who turned the Justice Department into a political weapon – why didn’t Trump indict Biden?

Standing on the lawn outside the White House a reporter asked Trump if his indictment against Comey was revenge – Trump told him, It’s about justice, not revenge.

The Book of Romans says, ‘Vengeance is the Lords.’

But in one of his books in a chapter titled ‘Revenge’ Trump said, ‘When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.’

This sure smells like Trump went after revenge.

*******

Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.