He is undermining a core promise of the American justice system: the fair and equal enforcement of the law. Mr. Trump has long claimed that Mr. Comey helped illegally leak classified information about the investigation to the media and that he lied to Congress about doing so. They claim that the actions of Mr. Trump and his attorney general, Pam Bondi, are no worse than the Biden Justice Department’s decision to indict Mr. Trump. Witness the enormous collateral damage America’s soybean producers are suffering amid President Trump’s trade war with China. It is surely no coincidence that these events followed the red-carpet welcome that Mr Trump awarded Vladimir Putin in Alaska.