Case against Comey may end in humiliation for rump's DOJ

[struggle4progress]

By Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney
09/26/2025 06:50 PM EDT

... in Comey’s case, there is ample public evidence that the charges were not the result of prosecutors’ neutral assessment of the facts. Rather, they appear to have been brought at the behest of a president seeking to use prosecutorial muscle to settle an old score ...

... the indictment is devoid of any details about how Comey’s testimony can be proven to be a criminal lie. It doesn’t contain a single quote that Comey allegedly uttered ...

... federal indictments are signed by assistant U.S. attorneys, the rank-and-file prosecutors who specialize in specific areas of criminal law and who may have spent months or years building the case. But the Comey indictment was signed only by Halligan, a longtime insurance lawyer who had no prosecutorial experience when she was sworn in ...

There may be a more mundane reason prosecutors struggle to convict Comey, even if the case reaches trial: technology glitches in the Covid era. During the September 2020 Senate hearing, Comey testified remotely from his home in McLean, Virginia, and right from the start there were signs of a poor internet connection ...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/26/james-comey-indictment-flaws-00582920

[Deuxcents]

1. There are all kinds of videos with TSF giving his personal opinions on his targets for retribution..

Doesn’t that taint the cases and set up for counter suits?

[Attilatheblond]

2. Yep, he will be humiliated AGAIN

And that makes him even more furious and looking to hurt even more people to assuage the bad feels he gets for failing yet again. Each failure, which he authors himself, just make him more enraged, irrational, and dangerous.

He is Charles Manson in a blue suit. He needs to be committed to a facility for the criminally insane, because he is.

[Skittles]

3. PAY ATTENTION, GOUNDHAWG

YES INDEED

[SSJVegeta]

4. What are the chances this lawyer with no prosecutorial experience...

Lied to a grand jury to get this indictment?

[sheshe2]

5. From your lips to the goddess's ear.

[Prairie Gates]

6. Or it may end with Comey sent to an African prison and murdered

The assumption that all this is going to end well seems, at this point, profoundly stupid.

[struggle4progress]

8. Concur in part, dissent in part

I agree that our short-term victory is not inevitable, but do not regard the short-term as hopeless if we do our work

Long-term I expect to win, though perhaps at substantial cost

"Life is what happens while you were planning something else"

[Aristus]

9. Yep. Comey played his part and helped get Trump elected.

He’s expendable now. If he ends up staring down the business end of a firing squad, I wonder if he’ll think it was worth it.

[Coldwater]

7. That's why the case was assigned to a nobody

[struggle4progress]

10. rump taints indictment

Legal AF
Sep 26, 2025

True to his word, President Trump is finally beginning to succeed in bringing actual criminal charges against his enemies. Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted for lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. Shan Wu breaks down the indictment’s strengths, weaknesses and what effect Trump’s public pressuring of Attorney General Bondi and his celebration of the indictment may have upon the case.