Comey indictment escalates Trump’s promise of political retribution
This president asks and will take it.
Less than a week after Donald Trump fired a reality, especially for a handful of critics, one of the targeted – former FBI Director James come – was accused.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Justice announced a criminal case against Comey and fulfilled the president’s desire to search for ordeal, and the US Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi further increased his concerns about whether Trump armed the Ministry of Justice to target his political rivals.
In 2020, Comey was accused of misconducting the wrong declaration and justice regarding his testimony before a Senate panel. Prosecutors claim that they authorize and authorize the Congress to authorize and authorize the informative leakage classified to the members of the Congress.
Even if Trump insists that Trump insists that he was a solid case against the former FBI director and that it is a strong example of taking into account, it does not take much time to connect the points.
“Today’s indictment reflects the commitment of this Ministry of Justice to hold those who abuse the power positions responsible for the misconception of the American people.”
If there was something from the strong firewall between the episode and the White House-it has long been accepted by the presidents of the two sides for a long time.
Laurie Levinon, former Federal Prosecutor and Law Professor of Loyola Marymount University, told BBC News Channel that the firewall was “completely collapsed” with this case.
“This is to guide the president to guide the people to put forward a particular person, because because he is angry,” Levinon said.
Last week, Trump went to the real social platform to encourage Bondi to blame against his political enemies. The Justice Department Competening, Democrat and California Senator Adam Schiff and New York Chief Public Prosecutor Letitia James – complained about blaming vocal critics in Trump’s Crosshanks.
Ms. Levinon said Trump had gone further than former president Richard Nixon, who has gathered a famous list of famous enemies by replacing the prosecutors who resist the revenge agenda.
Days after the US lawyer Virginia’s Eastern region, Erik Siebert resigned from fear that he could not start to prosecute James for allegedly mortgage fraud, and appointed a White House assistant to the role of Trump.
Lindsey Halligan, one of Trump’s former personal lawyer, who had no experience as a federal prosecutor, rapidly brought the Comey’s case to a large jury, which admitted that there was enough evidence to prosecute it.
“Everything about this rightful prosecution,” Levinon said.
In order to secure a indictment, 12 members of a large jury must only vote for a possible reason – not evidence beyond a reasonable suspicion. In addition, the great jury evaluates the case only without a defense lawyer based on the evidence of prosecutors.
An AnneMarie McAvoy, a legal expert and Professor of Columbia University, says that prosecutors may have testimony and documentary evidence supporting their lawsuits against Comey – presented to the big jury and can be used to create a lawsuit against the former manager during the hearing.
“When you say that you have not leaked information, there are questions about whether he is honest,” he said. “And you know, come forward and yes, yes, I got information from James comey, then they have a potential case.”
In a short statement to the media, Comey’s lawyer said he rejected the charges and was looking forward to justifying in the courtroom.
If this case is actually tried, although the charges of lie and blocking is quite tangent and small holes, Trump is ready to reveal a long -embedded drama from the compression of the Russian election.
Trump and its supporters are already treated by Comey’s prosecution as a way to weaken the reliability of the entire Russian investigation. While this investigation found plenty of evidence of interfering attempts in the 2016 Presidential elections, it did not produce concrete evidence that connects Trump directly to these efforts.
Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel described the investigation in an article in X after the indictment was announced as an “shameful section in history”. He blamed what he said was the “previous corrupt leadership” of the Bureau’s research power.
The same charges are now directed to the rest of the Patel, Bondi and Trump team. And perhaps the biggest question hanging on all of this is just an individual event of the Comey’s indictment – a clearly an action that can clearly calm an angry president – or more prosecution.
