U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House, January 20, 2026. REUTERS Nathan Howard
Former Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the FBI Michael Feinberg says he has no reason to feel safe that President Donald Trump won’t send his politicized Department of Justice after him with a bogus and expensive prosecution as he already has with former FBI director James Comey.
“As to whether I'm worried. Yeah, of course I'm worried on a lot of levels,” Feinberg told MS NOW Anchor Nicole Wallace. “This is an administration that comes after critics, and … I'm in the position of being a critic.”
Feinberg made his confession after former DOJ Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer admitted publicly that she, too, feared legal persecution by the vindictive president.
“On a personal note, … I'm worried for myself. I mean, I've had a security incident at my home after I left the department. That was very worrisome. And the idea that I don't know that the justice department or the FBI is a place that I could turn for help because of the people who are in charge of it — that scares me. It scares me tremendously for myself and for my family,” Oyer told Wallace. “And I am certain that there are many other citizens, former employees of the justice department and beyond who feel the same way. We don't know if the institutions that are supposed to protect us are going to do to do that. The bad guys are on the inside now … and it's something that troubles me every single day.”
However, Feinberg said he and Oyer served “in the executive branch, and we took an oath to the Constitution,” and “that has to mean something.”
“It's worth noting that when we all raised our right hands and we repeated the words we were given … those words do not come with an expiration date,” said Feinbeg. “So those of us who have ever served our flag with honor, seeing it being trampled on by this administration, we have a duty to speak up. And quite frankly, the consequences are immaterial at this point.”
Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said he was similarly bound to speak out regardless of the threat of persecution.
“Donald Trump has posted pictures of me in an orange jumpsuit and I'm not flattered that much by it. He posts thousands of things about many people, so I'm not trying to elevate myself in any way,” said Rhodes. “There're thousands and thousands and thousands of people he's threatened. And I should say, there are truly vulnerable people in this country that are far more vulnerable than us [three].”
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