Trump now said in front of journalists in the White House that it is “not about revenge”, but “about the fact that you can’t let it go so”. When asked who a procedure will be initiated next, the President replied: “There is no list, but there will be others.” In addition, Trump repeated his insult that had already been expressed online that Comey had always been “a dirty bull”.
Trump had threatened his political opponents with revenge in the election campaign. A few days ago, he opened the US Justice Ministry in public to proceed against Comey and other adversaries. Trump broke with political custom that the White House at least does not publicly interfere in the interests of the Ministry of Justice.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) has commented on the increasing pressure on justice and freedom of expression in the United States. “This country has changed so fundamentally over the past few years, perhaps decades that rules are no longer being met, the parliamentary democracy is under pressure, which is questioned freedom of expression, repression is being exercised to independence the judiciary,” he said in the “Black Ecosystem Summit” in front of entrepreneurs.
The Chancellor also said that he does not consider this to be a temporary development. “The changes that we see in the United States of America have not come overnight and they won’t go again during the day and they are not suddenly disappearing with the next elections.” The rule -based order is not only questioned by authoritarian political systems today. “Unfortunately, it also applies to America,” said Merz, emphasizing how much he was connected to the country. The Chancellor was the chairman of the Atlantic Bridge, an association that is committed to German-American relations, and in the meantime worked for an American company: the investment company Blackrock.
