Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein - 08/27/24

Anthony Coley, a former spokesman for Attorney General Merrick Garland, said the superseding indictment makes mostly “minor tweaks to comply with a dubious Supreme Court ruling.” Coley said the prosecution story remains essentially unchanged: that “Trump ignored the facts and worked around the law to overturn the will of voters. This superseding indictment tells the full story within the parameters that the ultra-conservative majority of the Supreme Court have laid out.”

Nandita Bose, Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason - 08/07/24

Trump has called Harris “crazy,” “nuts”, “dumb as a rock” and questioned her identity by suggesting she had previously downplayed her Black heritage. Some Republicans in Congress disparage her as a diversity hire. Right-wing activists and trolls have smeared her online with racist and sexist barbs.

The inner circle is “battle tested in a way that is going to be helpful over the next 99 days,” Coley said.

“It’s going to be fast, it’s going to be furious, it’s going to be deep. And you have to have people who know how to respond quickly and smartly to these types of attacks.”

Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein - 07/02/24

If Donald Trump is elected president, the finish line for federal prosecutors is Inauguration Day, not Election Day, people familiar with the discussions said.

“The Justice Department isn’t governed by the election calendar. Its prosecution of Trump is based on the law, the facts, and the Justice Manual — the department’s bible that lays out the post-Watergate norms that have prevented it from being weaponized,” said Anthony Coley, a former Justice Department spokesman for Attorney General Merrick Garland who left the agency last year. “Until those norms change, or they’re ordered otherwise, I’d expect this Justice Department to be full speed ahead. And they should be.”

Jeremy Barr - 06/27/24

Throughout the broadcast, the network came under criticism on social media for not correcting false statements — particularly those made by Trump.


“The absence of real-time fact checking is the biggest failure of this debate,” wrote Anthony Coley, a contributor for NBC News and MSNBC, on X.



Chalian had left open the possibility of fact-checking “if there is some egregious mistruth put forward,” but the moderators chose not to.

Lauren Egan, Eli Stokols and Ben Johansen - 05/31/24

“While this is not a moment for Democrats to gloat, Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, and folks should call him that at every turn. The president should lean into this moment by focusing on his efforts to improve the lives and future of everyday Americans,” ANTHONY COLEY, a former Department of Justice spokesperson, told West Wing Playbook.

“‘Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow,’ Bill Clinton once advised. That’s a powerful contrast when his opponent is surrounded by chaos and focused on his own campaign of vengeance and retribution.”

Adam Cancryn - 05/24/24

“The central pushback should come from the legislative branch, and not the executive branch,” said Anthony Coley, a former senior official in the Biden Justice Department, arguing that Congress has wide-ranging investigatory
authority. “That’s the right place where we should be seeing aggressive oversight, and right now they are not meeting the moment.”