'Choke on it': Trump dismisses outrage at his political prosecutions
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters, as he departs for travel to Pennsylvania from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C. U.S., July 15, 2025. REUTERS Jonathan Ernst
Mediaite reports President Donald Trump shared a message from CNN GOP commenter Scott Jennings telling critics to “choke on it” regarding the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.
Trump posted a clip Jennings shared to X from his Salem Radio Network show where the CNN senior political analyst dismissed critics claiming Comey’s indictment was personally directed Trump in an effort to target his political enemies.
“When ex-FBI Director James Comey was indicted, the weeping and gnashing of teeth from the ‘nobody is above the law crowd’ could be heard around the world,” Jennings wrote on X. “Spare me your outrage about ‘political prosecutions.’”
Comey was indicted — but just barely — on charges of making false statements to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding, all related to whether he authorized a leak about Hillary Clinton and an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. The evidence from Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan is based on allegedly contradictory claims from Comey’s then-deputy Andrew McCabe. McCabe admitted to leaking the information but told Congress that Comey only approved of the leak after the fact, likely making the prosecution a hard sell to a criminal jury.
But Jennings tried to frame the indictment as tit-for-tat behavior that Democrats had coming.
“… [P]lease, spare me the outrage over political prosecutions. For all of you who ever said no one is above the law or said that institutions of justice are sacred and cannot be questioned or described to Donald Trump as a 34-count convicted felon, you know what I say? Choke on it,” Jennings wrote.
He went on to claim Trump’s own prosecutions were “political prosecutions … that were clearly novel, and made up just for him, just for politics,” despite a New York jury of Trump’s own peers finding him guilty of falsifying business records to hide hush money payments to a sex industry worker.
And earlier Saturday, on CNN’s “Table for Five,” Jennings failed to point to even one example of former President Biden directing an attorney general to indict and prosecute Trump as Trump has seemingly ordered AG Pam Bondi to do.
The most Jennings could claim was “a Politico story” where Biden “was fuming” privately that then AG Merrick Garland wasn’t working fast enough.
“So, he was publicly fuming privately,” chided CNN panelist and Meidas Touch Gen Z writer Adam Mockler.
“Did he tell Merrick Garland to prosecute these specific people?” demanded another panelist of Jennings.
“I don’t know what he did,” Jennings admitted.
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