This is a reckoning of James Comey’s own making — – Latest News
In the wake of James Comey’s indictment, Democrats like Richard Blumenthal and Eric Swalwell are issuing darkish warnings with a straight face that “what goes around comes around” and that anybody who cooperates with Donald Trump’s “vengeance prosecutions” will face retribution when Dems are back in charge.
But their threats fall on deaf ears as a result of they began it. Democrats long in the past weaponized the justice system towards their political opponents.
Let us depend the methods.
On Joe Biden’s watch, Trump confronted 4 separate indictments with 88 felony expenses; more than 1,500 Trump supporters have been arrested and over-prosecuted within the J6 investigation; Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro have been jailed for contempt of Nancy Pelosi’s J6 star chamber; Trump adviser Roger Stone was arrested at daybreak in a heavy-handed SWAT raid; Comey entrapped Trump National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn; the DOJ, FBI and IRS coated up Biden corruption and jailed whistleblowers Gal Luft and Alexander Smirnov. To title a few.
Conservatives of each stripe have been underneath legal assault. The FBI spied on faculty board conferences and Catholics at Latin Mass.
FBI brokers have been subjected to politically motivated loyalty checks to weed out these suspected of supporting Trump.
Joe Biden pressured AG Merrick Garland to analyze Trump and lay off his son — solely he did it by means of nameless leaks to The New York Times fairly than out within the open on Truth Social.
‘Unforgivable’
“James Comey deserves our utter contempt for the damage he did to our system of justice along with the rule of law in America,” says Flynn.
Like Comey, Flynn was charged with making false statements to authorities officers during an official continuing, Flynn to the FBI, Comey to Congress.
In January 2017, days after Trump took workplace, Comey despatched two FBI brokers to go to Flynn, the newly appointed national security adviser, to query him about official cellphone calls he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak after the election.
Flynn was charged with making false statements to the FBI, which he denied, however when prosecutors threatened to charge his son, he pleaded guilty.
“I sent them [the agents],” Comey bragged of his violation of coverage, in an on-stage interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
“Something I wouldn’t have done or got away with a more organized administration, in the George W. Bush administration, for example, or the Obama administration,” he mentioned. “[But] I thought: it’s early enough, let’s just send a couple of guys over.”
The viewers laughed.
For Flynn, a army veteran, and patriot, whose advice Trump by no means acquired the benefit of, Comey’s idle abuse of energy led to years of torment.
He misplaced his home, his business, and most of his financial savings combating the case earlier than Trump pardoned him.
“What he did to my family, the Trump administration and to the people of America is unforgivable,” says Flynn. “He should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.”
Another Trump intimate, Roger Stone, was charged with the identical offenses as Comey: making false statements to Congress and obstruction of a congressional continuing, like Flynn over pretend Russia collusion allegations.
Yet, not like Comey, Stone wasn’t afforded the genteel route of turning himself in to authorities at his leisure.
In the predawn darkness of Jan. 25, 2019, a closely armed FBI SWAT group stormed Stone’s home with a CNN digital camera crew in tow to seize his misery as he and his spouse have been marched outdoors of their pajamas at gunpoint. Stone misplaced his home, his financial savings, his insurance coverage and even his car within the infinite legal saga, which additionally solely ended when Trump pardoned him.
“There is no better example of the two-tiered justice system,” says Stone.
“The judge issued a broad gag order preventing me from defending myself in public, arguing that my public defense could ‘taint the jury pool’ which, of course, does not explain why she left the gag order in place after my conviction, and after I was sentenced,” he says, questioning, “Why is there no gag order on James Comey?”
Justice ‘hot and cold’
Good query. As quickly as he was indicted final week, Comey posted a self-righteous, self-pitying video on Instagram declaring his innocence and posing as a Resistance hero.
“My family and I have known for years that there are costs for standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees,” he mentioned.
Peter Navarro, one other senior adviser in Trump’s first administration, was jailed final March for 4 months for defying a congressional subpoena from the J6 committee, the primary time in 40 years that anybody has been despatched to jail for contempt of Congress.
Like Stone, Navarro needs to know why Comey is being handled with child gloves in distinction to his own brutal arrest in 2022 at Reagan National Airport as he boarded a aircraft for Nashville.
Navarro was handcuffed, shackled in leg irons, strip-searched and thrown in a jail cell.
“How come Comey is allowed to self-surrender when they sent five armed FBI agents to take me down?” he requested.
“My message to the Republican National Convention the day I got out of prison was simple: If we don’t hold them accountable, they will do it again,” says Navarro, who simply printed a e book about his ordeal: “I Went To Prison So You Won’t Have To.”
“They include not just Comey but [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, [James] Clapper, [Lisa] Page, [Peter] Strzok, [Rod] Rosenstein and the FBI agent who put me in leg irons, Walter Giardina,” he says. “No martyrs among them, only perpetrators.”
He may have added different devious former coup plotters, equivalent to CIA Director John Brennan, New York AG Letitia James and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff, who’re presently underneath investigation.
Steve Bannon is one other former Trump adviser attacked with Democrat lawfare who, like Navarro, was jailed for contempt of Congress.
He describes the Comey indictment as merely “an appetizer for a full meal we are going to ram down the throat of the Deep State.”
“The internal enemies of our country better lawyer up because justice is being served in the best way possible — cold and hard.”
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Back when the shoe was on the opposite foot, the identical Democrats and their media handmaidens who are actually hyperventilating about Comey getting the beginning of his simply deserts, couldn’t wait to get to a microphone to say: “No one is above the law.”
Even when the FBI performed an armed raid on the home of a former president — Trump’s Mar-a-Lago — and rifled by means of Melania Trump’s underwear drawer, Dems simply smirked and mentioned: “We believe in the rule of law.”
So spare us the outrage.
Tit-for-tat indictments
The indictment of Comey is solely “unprecedented” within the sense that Republicans haven’t performed the sport earlier than.
Now they’re on the sphere and it’s scorched earth time.
Expect more indictments as quickly as this week.
It’s not revenge. It’s accountability. It’s a vital squaring up, night the ledger, building deterrence.
As Trump mentioned final week: “You can’t let this go on. They are sick, radical left people, and they can’t get away with it.”
