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James Comey, the former FBI director and one of Donald Trump’s most frequent targets, was indicted on Thursday on one count of making a false statement to Congress and one count of obstruction of justice, according to a person familiar with the matter, in the latest move in the president’s expansive retribution campaign against his political adversaries.
“No one is above the law. Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case,” Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, tweeted on Thursday. The indictment came shortly after Trump instructed Bondi to “move now” to prosecute Comey and other officials he considers political foes, in an extraordinarily direct social media post trampling on the justice department’s tradition of independence.
Lindsey Halligan, the president’s former lawyer who was recently sworn in as the US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, asked a grand jury to indict Comey for allegedly lying to Congress in testimony on 30 September 2020 before the five-year statute of limitations expires in the coming days. Comey’s testimony before the Senate judiciary committee was related to his handling of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.
Halligan, who has no prosecutorial experience, was elevated to the post after Erik Siebert was forced out of the job for failing to bring indictments against Comey and Letitia James, the New York attorney general. Days before submitting his resignation under pressure, Siebert reportedly conveyed to his superiors at the justice department that the cases against Comey and James were unlikely to result in charges.
In social media posts on Saturday, Trump claimed that Comey, James and a third political opponent, Democratic senator Adam Schiff of California, were “guilty as hell” and that his supporters were upset that “nothing has been done”.
“We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility,” Trump posted. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”
Trump’s contempt for Comey stretches back to the early days of his first term, when according to Comey, Trump sought to secure a pledge of loyalty from the then FBI director, who refused. At the time, Comey was leading the criminal investigation into Russian meddling in the US election. Trump dismissed Comey in May 2017. Earlier this year, Comey was investigated by the Secret Service after he shared and then deleted a cryptic social media post of seashells in the formation of “8647” that Trump’s allies alleged was an incitement of violence against the president.
Comey said he opposed violence of any kind and said he was unaware that “86” had a violent connotation. Comey voluntarily sat for an interview with the agency.
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Comey ain't no angel. But this is just Trump being a vindictive ass. Comey would never agree to kiss the rings.
Trump celebrates James Comey indictment as ex-FBI director says ‘I’m innocent: let’s have a trial’ – as it happened
Yet, that is exactly what he is doing here.
Trump has weaponized the DOJ to persecute his perceived enemies.
He needs to be STOPPED!
Comey's son-in-law Troy Edwards, EDVA, resigned. Comey had 6 children & Maurene's wiki bio doesn't show relationship with Troy Edwards, but some web links show him as Maurene's husband.
Previous EDVA Head declined to press charges against Comey, so he was fired, and the new EDVA Head went ahead with it.
https://apnews.com/article/comey-son-law-resign-doj-4051b95b5f532c914cfff14aacdc49e8
https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-fbi-director-james-comey-indicted-days-after/story?id=125935658
It will likely be an ordeal for Comey, but hopefully he gets donations to his cause, so as to lighten the load. But, I think it is very likely that they have a hard time getting a jury to convict on what is circumstantial evidence at best. We The People will see through this charade. And it only takes one dissenting Juror.
Orange Flatulence has no case. This is junk.
Anyway, it should cost Comey a lot less to fight two lousy pages, so there's that.
An excerpt from his conversation is below.
"This process was worse than unusual. It was wholly un-American and really despicable in the way it was done. America's long been a country where evenhanded justice has been the standard and the goal.
And that's all been abandoned under this president and his willing assistant attorney general."
"Keep in mind that career prosecutors, including a seasoned prosecutor of Trump's own appointment
as the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District OF Virginia, had concluded at the end of a long process,
along with the FBI, that there were — there was just insufficient evidence with which to proceed
against the former FBI director, Mr. Comey."
"In response, Trump fired that prosecutor, according to him — the prosecutor says he resigned — and ordered, in no uncertain terms, his attorney general to punish his enemies, not just Mr. Comey, but Senator Schiff
and Attorney General Letitia James, saying that these people had tortured him, he'd been wronged badly,
and it was time for — time for them to be punished now."
"And that historically is not the way America works. Now, that's the way Allende's Chile worked,
Stalin's Russia worked, Hitler's Germany worked, but it's not the way America works.
It's not the role of an attorney general to do what the president orders him to do in criminal matters."
Ty Cobb Video Segment
This is often the case when the cold facts of Trump's inappropriate actions are disclosed.
this MAGA-career chaser is peanuts ; no legal nor scientific quackery is too low when dr. dementia dangles a promotion.
plus, without cannon as judge, trump has a built-in excuse for losing.