President Donald Trump’s vendetta against James Comey risks turning the former FBI director into a martyr, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough warned.

The former Florida congressman said on Friday morning that the Trump administration’s indictment the night before could make Comey, a target of the president’s attacks for years, “bigger than ever.”

“It bears repeating,” Scarborough said. “You do this, you turn the person you hate into a martyr. You make them bigger than ever. You unite people behind them. Donald Trump understood this in his own political campaign, and yet he’s now making Comey a martyr, a martyr for the rule of law.”

A federal grand jury indicted the one-time FBI director, whom Trump fired in 2017, for allegedly obstructing a congressional investigation and making false s

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