trump makes the case for not indicting Jim Comey.

[berg80]

Wasn't the indictment over what he said to congress in 2020? When did Trump fire him?

Your argument was over what happened in 2017, which the statute of limitations has potentially ran out. Comey has been indicted for something that happened in 2020.

The statute of limitations was about to expire on charging him with lying before Congress in 2020. Which is why Halligan was hastily put in charge of the office that charged Comey. Too quickly for her to get up to speed on this case. But that didn't matter since her job was not to assess the situation but rather to make sure the charges were filed under the wire.

A charge even Billy the Bagman declined to bring after an investigation when he was still Dotard's AG.

What's your point?

 

[marvin martian]

I guess you'd have to believe that to justify Seibert and Song being fired.

Only a DemoKKKrat can't fathom government incompetence.

That's the giant blind spot in your religion.

 

[PeanutGallery]

The statute of limitations was about to expire on charging him with lying before Congress in 2020. Which is why Halligan was hastily put in charge of the office that charged Comey. Too quickly for her to get up to speed on this case. But that didn't matter since her job was not to assess the situation but rather to make sure the charges were filed under the wire.

A charge even Billy the Bagman declined to bring after an investigation when he was still Dotard's AG.

What's your point?

I think I remember that Cyrus Vance, Jr., the previous DA before Alvin Bragg refused to go ahead and prosecute Trump because they didn't think that the case was strong enough. Bragg did and got guilty verdicts for 34 felonies. Do you think that Bragg was wrong in going ahead with a case after the previous one didn't want to? She was up to speed enough to get a grand duty to indict Comey. Do you think the grand jury was duped into thinking there's a case? Comey will have his day in court; just like Trump did. After all, I heard posters like you say before the 2024 election that no one's above the law. Well, do you actually believe it, or was that just a talking point?

 

[berg80]

I think I remember that Cyrus Vance, Jr., the previous DA before Alvin Bragg refused to go ahead and prosecute Trump because they didn't think that the case was strong enough.

You might be referring to the offspring, Donnie J and Queen Ivanka. Vance was going to prosecute them for fraud, a family favorite, but got bought off by a trump lackey.

Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud

New York prosecutors were preparing a case. Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.

www.propublica.org

 

[berg80]

James Comey wants 'vindictive' case dropped and Trump's prosecutor disqualified​

WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director James Comey filed motions seeking the dismissal of the criminal charges brought against him, arguing that the lawyer President Donald Trump named to prosecute him, Lindsey Halligan, wasn't properly appointed and that the case was politically motivated.

Comey's team argued that the indictment arose from "multiple glaring constitutional violations and an egregious abuse of power by the federal government" and that the "bedrock principles of due process and equal protection have long ensured that government officials may not use courts to punish and imprison their perceived personal and political enemies."

Halligan, a former insurance lawyer who is now interim head of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, was “defectively appointed to her office as an interim U.S. Attorney,” Comey's attorneys argued, adding that her appointment “violated the congressionally designed and constitutionally compelled means for the Attorney General to appoint an official as interim U.S. Attorney.”

Comey's team went on to argue that "because no properly appointed Executive Branch official sought and obtained the indictment, the indictment is equally a nullity.”

James Comey wants 'vindictive' case dropped and Trump's prosecutor disqualified

The Constitution "forbids the government from retaliating against individuals for their protected speech," the former FBI director's team argued in a court filing.

www.nbcnews.com

Comey's defense team had telegraphed this filing from the beginning.

 

[berg80]

Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed Misconduct in Comey Case​

A federal magistrate judge said on Monday that the criminal case against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, could be in trouble because of a series of apparent errors committed in front of the grand jury by Lindsey Halligan, the inexperienced prosecutor picked by President Trump to oversee the matter.

The remarkable rebuke of Ms. Halligan came in a 24-page ruling in which the magistrate judge, William E. Fitzpatrick, ordered her to give Mr. Comey’s lawyers all of the grand jury materials she used to obtain the indictment and raised the question of whether “government misconduct” in the case might require dismissing the charges altogether.

In his ruling, Judge Fitzpatrick said that when Ms. Halligan appeared — by herself — in front of the grand jury in September to seek an indictment accusing Mr. Comey of lying to and obstructing Congress in 2020 testimony, she made at least two “fundamental and highly prejudicial” misstatements of the law. He also pointed out that the grand jury materials he ordered her to turn over to him for his review this month appeared to be incomplete and “likely do not reflect the full proceedings.”

“The court is finding that the government’s actions in this case — whether purposeful, reckless or negligent — raise genuine issues of misconduct, are inextricably linked to the government’s grand jury presentation and deserve to be fully explored by the defense,” Judge Fitzpatrick wrote.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/politics/comey-justice-department-misconduct.html

Competence takes a back seat to hotness.