Donald Trump escalated his revenge crusade last week, successfully pressuring his Justice Department to file charges against former FBI director James Comey—a longtime target of the president’s ire over his role in the Russia investigation that clouded Trump’s first term.
But Comey, who was charged with a count of making a false statement to Congress and a count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding, is far from the only political foe whom Trump could use the DOJ against. “I think there’ll be others,” Trump told reporters last week. “These were corrupt, radical-left Democrats.” (Comey declared his innocence in a video posted after his indictment.)
Who could be the next target of retribution from the Trump administration?
Former FBI Director Christopher Wray
In an NBC News interview on Sunday, Trump suggested that Comey successor Christopher Wray could face a similar prosecution. “I would certainly imagine” that the DOJ is investigating Wray, Trump told the outlet. “I would think they are doing that.”
Trump tapped Wray to lead the FBI after firing Comey in 2017, seemingly over the latter’s refusal to bend to the president’s efforts to pressure him.
But Wray himself would prove too independent for the president’s liking, continuing to oversee the inquiry into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election—an investigation that ensnared multiple figures in Trump’s orbit. In 2020, Trump reportedly mulled firing the FBI director, but stood down after then attorney general Bill Barr threatened to resign. And in 2021, Wray warned about right-wing extremism in the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Trump, of course, pardoned the violent Capitol rioters upon entering his second term in office, and referenced January 6 in weekend comments suggesting that Wray could face prosecution: Wray’s FBI “secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax,” Trump posted on social media, repeating an unfounded claim that federal agents were “probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists” that day.
It isn’t clear what the DOJ would investigate Wray over, or what charges he would face, but Trump told NBC News on Sunday that the former director—whom he replaced with Kash Patel upon returning to office this year—“did a terrible job and we just found out about it.”
“I think a lot of his service was very inappropriate,” Trump told NBC News. “But we haven’t gone beyond that.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James
Letitia James was among the targets Trump listed in a social media post directed at Pam Bondi, his attorney general, with the president demanding more aggressive investigations into his foes: “We can’t delay any longer,” Trump wrote on September 20.
James—who has served as New York AG since 2019—sued Trump and his business for fraud in 2022 and ultimately emerged successful, though the massive fine a judge leveled against the now president and the Trump Organization was thrown out on appeal in August 2025. That same month, the DOJ opened an investigation into whether James’s office had violated Trump’s civil rights in the case. That came on top of a criminal mortgage-fraud investigation into James that the DOJ has been running in recent months. (James has denied any wrongdoing.)
Erik Siebert, the now former US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, had resisted bringing charges against the New York AG in that probe due to a lack of evidence. He resigned under reported pressure from the Trump administration. His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, brought an indictment against Comey just days after assuming the role.
Democratic Senator Adam Schiff
Senator Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, has long been a villain in the MAGA universe, having played prominent roles in investigations that dogged Trump in his first term and postpresidency.
A US representative during Trump’s first term, Schiff helped lead one of the congressional investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. He later acted as the lead prosecutor in Trump’s first impeachment trial and served on the House committee that investigated the January 6 insurrection.
Trump has similarly accused Schiff of mortgage fraud—a claim Schiff denied as a “baseless attempt at political retribution.” Along with James and Comey, Schiff was among the three names Trump cited in his social media post addressed to Bondi on September 20. “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” Trump wrote.
Schiff called Comey’s subequent indictment a “blatant abuse” of power. “The DOJ is now little more than an arm of the president’s retribution campaign,” he wrote.
Who Else?
That “retribution campaign” could continue to expand: In addition to targeting long-standing enemies like John Bolton, the former Trump national security adviser whose home and office were searched in August, the administration has vowed to go after “far left” groups following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
“We are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” Stephen Miller vowed in September. “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”
More Great Stories From Vanity Fair
-
Inside the Battle for The Smithsonian
-
Meet RFK Jr.’s “Attached at the Hip” HHS Deputy
-
Why Prince William Has “No Time” for Prince Andrew
-
The Mystery of the Missing Teen, Viral Singer, and Tesla Corpse
-
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed by the Media
-
The 25 Best Movies to Watch on Netflix This October
-
How Erika Kirk Rose to Power
-
Dakota and Elle Fanning, Together at Last
-
The Florida Divorcée’s Guide to Murder
-
Jessica Buttafuoco and the Price of Infamy
-
From the Archive: The Hollywood Secret Katharine Hepburn Helped Bury
The post Meet the Likely Next Targets of Trump’s Revenge Tour appeared first on Vanity Fair.
