The president of the United States, has already achieved what he wanted. The former director of the FBI James Comey, whom the Republican considers one of his worst enemies, has been, as Trump himself announced on social networks. The charges have appeared less than a week after Trump launched one, to force the imputation of his most detested adversaries. If they are convicted, Comey now faces up to five years in jail for those charges.
In a message on social networks, the old high position has declared himself innocent and has expressed his confidence in the American judicial system. “My heart breaks through the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal justice system. I am innocent, so we go to trial and maintain confidence,” he said in a video posted on social networks.
Trump’s announcement about the charges against his nemesis reuses the same vengeful language several days ago in his rappe to Bondi. After describing Comey as “one of the worst human beings” who have ever stepped on the United States and “former corrupt director of the FBI”, announces that a grand jury has charged him “for several illegal and illegal acts.” “It has been so bad for our country for so long, and now it is at the beginning to be accountable for its crimes against our country.”
In a message on social networks, Bondi has written: “No one is above the law.” “Today’s imputation reflects the commitment of this justice department to make those who abuse their positions of power have to respond for having cheated the American people.”
The accusations have their origin in a statement under Comey’s oath before Congress on September 30, 2020. Then, the former high position appeared at a hearing to declare if he had authorized a filtration of information around the investigation that the president was followed on possible links with Russia in the 2016 electoral campaign.
Comey directed the FBI when Trump came to power in his first term in 2017, but ceased that same year, just days after the high position announced the opening of an investigation into those possible Russian links. Since then, the former high position has become one of the constant political whites of the president for that investigation.
The imputation has appeared in the East Judicial District of Virginia, where the prosecutor who investigated the case, Erik Siebert, resigned last week to the pressures to seek the imputation of the old high position. Siebert, who decided that there was not enough evidence to indicate that Comey had committed any crime, was immediately replaced in the position for Lindsey Halligan, former personal lawyer of Trump and that in recent months he had worked as an advisor at the White House. Haligan, a law specialist in the insurance sector, swore the position on Monday. It lacks any experience as a prosecutor.
One of the great reasons for the sudden hurries in the Department of Justice in this case has been that, if no one moves a file in less than a week, the alleged crime prescribed on October 1, after five years of the events.
Siebert’s rejection to present charges had triggered one of the most extraordinary tweets that the White House tenant has written. Extraordinary for the tone, between paternalistic and school teacher, and for the content. Without any type of tapping, and in flagrant violation of the Power separation system that prevents the head of state from being interference in the affairs of justice – and of the Department of Justice – the tenant of the White House sued Bondi to do everything he was in his hand to take Comey and the Democratic senator Adam Schiff, who headed one of the political judgments against Trump during the first mandate of the president. He also demanded charges against the New York prosecutor Laetitia James, who led to the Republican and his company, the Trump Organization, for fraud. James won the case.
It is “the same story of the last time: pure talk and no action. Nothing is being done. And what about Comey, Adam Shifty Schiff and Laetitia? They are all guilty, but nothing happens,” the president wrote in that text. In another previous message he urged: “We cannot delay it anymore, it is ending our reputation and credibility. They submitted me to a political trial twice and presented charges against me (five times!) For nothing. You have to do justice; That same day, I declared journalists: “If they are not guilty, nothing happens. If they are, or if they should be judged, they have to be judged. And we have to do it now.”
At the beginning of this week, prosecutors presented Haligan a very detailed memorandum in which they recommended not accusing Comey of Perjury and obstruction of justice, according to the ABC television network. The open investigation against the old high position had failed to find a solid indication that a crime had been committed; Something that would not only have made it impossible to achieve a conviction, but a large jury agreed to present charges.
Haligan, however, has taken the case to a large jury in Alexandria, in the northeast of Virginia, who has accused Comment of the two positions.
The alleged suspicions against the former director of the FBI are born from a question by Senator Ted Cruz in that appearance of Comey before a committee of the Upper House, about whether he had leaked information about the investigations of the alleged Russian connection. The then high position stressed that “never” had been an anonymous source about information about the investigation around the president.
“So his testimony is that he never authorized anyone to filter information?” Asked Cruz, who noticed that the former deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, had responded differently. “I’m not going to qualify Andy’s testimony, but mine is the same now (as before),” Comey replied.
From his cessation at the head of the FBI, Comey became an outstanding critic of the president, who has described as “morally inappropriate” to hold the position.
The dismissal of Comey led to the appointment of one of his predecessors in the agency, Robert Mueller, as a special researcher to take care of the Russian investigation. This research discovered the existence of numerous contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, but concluded that there was not enough evidence to determine that there had been some kind of illegal conspiracy.
Trump then declared, and insists now, that this investigation was a “witch hunt”, and has tried to undermine the conclusions of the FBI investigations and US intelligence services about the Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 American presidential campaign, in which Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.
