(LifeSiteNews) – A federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday for allegedly lying under oath in what Democrats are calling a partisan witch hunt and Republicans call a long-overdue step for accountability.
The indictment charges Comey, who served under former President Barack Obama and was fired early in President Donald Trump’s first term, with two counts related to “willfully and knowingly mak(ing) materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement(s)” when he denied to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had “‘authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports” concerning the investigation into since-debunked allegations that Trump colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 presidential election. If convicted, Comey could spend up to five years in prison.
“No one is above the law,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said. “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.”
“Today, your FBI took another step in its promise of full accountability,” FBI Director Kash Patel added. “For far too long, previous corrupt leadership and their enablers weaponized federal law enforcement, damaging once proud institutions and severely eroding public trust. Every day, we continue the fight to earn that trust back, and under my leadership, this FBI will confront the problem head-on. Nowhere was this politicization of law enforcement more blatant than during the Russiagate hoax, a disgraceful chapter in history we continue to investigate and expose. Everyone, especially those in positions of power, will be held to account – no matter their perch. No one is above the law.”
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The Hill reported that the situation could have been worse for Comey, as the grand jury declined to return indictments on additional charges, such as his claim to not recall “approval of a plan” to use the Trump allegations to draw attention away from the scandal over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s misuse of a private email server for classified material, which Comey controversially declined to prosecute.
“My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system. And I’m innocent. So let’s have a trial,” Comey responded. “My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either.”
“Whether you like Corrupt James Comey or not, and I can’t imagine too many people liking him, HE LIED!” Trump said the next morning on Truth Social, calling the former FBI chief a “Dirty Cop” who must pay a “very big price,” and lamenting that the case “was just assigned a Crooked Joe Biden appointed Judge,” U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff.
The indictment comes after Virginia U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert reportedly refused to pursue the case, and Trump replaced him with Lindsey Halligan, a former insurance defense attorney, Trump personal attorney, White House as senior associate staff secretary, and Miss Colorado contestant.
Upon Trump’s victory over Clinton in 2016, Democrats swiftly blamed their defeat on those claims of Russian collusion, an investigation into which was launched after Trump fired Comey. In May 2017, former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the election, and despite numerous examples of his pro-Democrat, anti-Trump bias, Mueller’s final March 2019 report admitted that it “did not identify evidence that any US persons conspired or coordinated with” the Kremlin’s efforts to “provoke and amplify political and social discord in the United States,” including anyone involved in the Trump campaign.
In fact, Trump and Republicans countered that it was Democrats who knowingly manipulated the law and the evidence to try to frame Trump and prevent his victory.
An ultimately-unsuccessful defamation suit by Trump named as part of the smear campaign against him Clinton, Comey, the the Democratic National Committee (DNC), pro-Democrat consulting firm Fusion GPS (which the Clinton campaign hired to find damaging information on Trump), Clinton’s campaign attorney Michael Sussman, Sussman’s former law partner Mark Elias, Biden administration national security adviser Jake Sullivan, former British intelligence operative and author of the notorious debunked Steele dossier Christopher Steele, several of Steele’s sources, and former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, who pled guilty to falsifying the FISA warrant used to spy on 2016 Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. It alleged that the parties orchestrated a conspiracy “designed to cripple Trump’s bid for presidency by fabricating a scandal that would be used to trigger an unfounded federal investigation and ignite a media frenzy.”
Beyond Trump, the politicization of justice was one of the defining controversies of the Biden years, from the prosecutions of pro-life activists and a gender “transition” whistleblower, to lax prosecution of pro-abortion violence, to another memo identifying “Radical Traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology” as a potential motivator for “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.”
