Obama: Attorney General is "people's lawyer," not "president's consigliere"

In an interview with comedian Stephen Colbert, former president Barack Obama warned that democracy "can't overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system," adding "you can't have a situation in which whoever's in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies."

His statement comes after the Justice Department issued a second indictment last month against former FBI Director and Trump political foe James Comey.

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