Comey Statement On His Indictment

 

As part of his revenge and retribution campaign, the Malignant Fascist's toadies at the Justice Department indicted former FBI Director James Comey yesterday just before the statute of limitations ran out (our emphasis):

James Comey, the former FBI director and one of Donald Trump’s most frequent targets, was expected to surrender to the authorities on Friday after being indicted on one count of making a false statement to Congress and one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding.

The stunning indictment by a grand jury on Thursday evening was the latest and most dramatic move yet in the president’s retribution campaign against his political adversaries.

The indictment, filed in federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, shows Comey’s charges centred on whether he lied and misled lawmakers during testimony in September 2020 about the Russia investigation.

While the precise details were not clear in the sparse, two-page indictment, it appeared to reference Comey’s testimony that he had never authorized someone at the FBI to leak to the news media about the Trump or Hillary Clinton investigations – a claim prosecutors alleged was false. [snip]

The indictment followed Trump’s instruction to Bondi to “move now” to prosecute Comey and other officials he considers political foes, in an impatient and extraordinarily direct social media post trampling on the justice department’s tradition of independence.

It also came less than a week after Lindsey Halligan was installed as the top federal prosecutor in the eastern district of Virginia, after Trump fired her predecessor, Erik Siebert, after he declined to bring charges against Comey over concerns there was insufficient evidence.

Halligan, most recently a White House aide and former Trump lawyer who has no prosecutorial experience, was also presented with a memo earlier this week laying out why charges should not be brought. But the justice department still pushed it through, people familiar with the matter said...

Here's Comey's response:

 

It's safe to assume that more of the people who tried to hold the career criminal and lawless charlatan to account will face the same kind of harassment and vindictive prosecution.  Everyone needs to stand up at this moment in our history, because it's not about Comey;  it's about whether we live in a fascist police state or not.

BONUS:  The Malignant Fascist isn't just going after the former pols and prosecutors, of course:

Trump on who he wants investigated: "Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing. I don't know. I hear a lot of different names. I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people. Maybe I hear about a guy named Reid Hoffman."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM