Comey indictment is the beginning of holding – Latest News
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted for mendacity to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation.
Truth be informed, that indictment ought to be solely the tip of the iceberg for the prices that Comey ought to finally face, however even this modest first step has left-wing politicos caterwauling about President Trump’s “unprecedented” use of the Department of Justice to hunt revenge on his political enemies — a “glass-break moment” that “thrust the Justice Department into perilous new territory,” in keeping with The New York Times.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted that “using the justice system to go after political opponents is what dictators do.”
Sen. Chris Murphy says we’re “IN” a constitutional disaster, and it’s time for political leaders to decide on a facet,: “democracy or autocracy.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin, who was a member of the astoundingly partisan and illegitimate Jan. 6 Select Committee, claimed the indictment was half of Trump’s “wrath and vengeance campaign.”
And ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, that paragon of nonpartisan advantage (NOT), claims that “norms have been shattered” with the indictment.
Where have they been?
Were these people utterly blind to the weaponization of the Department of Justice, of the J6 Committee, of state prosecutor places of work with whom they have been colluding, and of bar disciplinary panels throughout the nation that we witnessed the final 4 years (or really, going back to Crossfire Hurricane in 2016, arguably the greatest political scandal in our nation’s historical past), or are they simply congenital liars?
And do they actually suppose that we, the American people, are so silly as to not discover their hypocrisy?
Do they suppose we’ve forgotten their mantra, repeated incessantly over the previous 4 years, that “no one is above the law”?
The details appear fairly clear.
On Sept. 30, 2020, Comey testified earlier than Congress and denied authorizing an unnamed contact to leak categorized info to reporters about the ongoing Crossfire Hurricane investigation of Trump’s supposed connections with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He is charged with mendacity underneath oath, and for obstructing Congress’ investigation.
The complete Crossfire Hurricane probe is lastly being uncovered for the rip-off that it was, with current felony referrals from the Director of National Intelligence.
And the unbelievably unconstitutional use of basic warrants to go after Trump and his supporters (together with this creator) has began to be revealed by the “Arctic Frost” paperwork disclosed final week by Sen. Chuck Grassley.
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It is onerous, due to this fact, to simply accept at face worth the newfound considerations coming from the left about the weaponization of law enforcement underneath President Trump.
But make no mistake: The indictment in opposition to Comey (and, let’s hope, quite a few others that may comply with in short order) is not a tit-for-tat ethical equivalency.
Charging the people who weaponized our establishments of justice in opposition to Trump, beginning back in his first time period and persevering with for almost a decade, is not revenge, however accountability and justice.
The total “Russia Collusion” narrative was a hoax from the get-go, bankrolled with Hillary Clinton marketing campaign funds laundered by means of her law firm, Perkins Coie.
The funds have been falsely reported on marketing campaign finance experiences as “legal compliance” to cover that it was Clinton herself — by way of the hiring of a former British spy claiming to have Russian sources — who was “colluding with Moscow” in opposition to her political opponent in the 2016 election.
Top officers in the Obama administration then sought FISA warrants to spy on Trump’s marketing campaign, doctoring proof that it introduced to the FISA court docket and destroying one of Trump’s advisers, Carter Page, in the course of.
Crocodile tears
Then there was Trump’s impeachment over a cellphone call about Joe Biden’s corrupt interference with an investigation of a Ukrainian company on whose board his son sat, and the totally false “insurrection” narrative generated in the wake of the 2020 election that focused not simply the president however scores of electors, attorneys (myself included) and quite a few different Trump supporters — tarnishing reputations, depleting bank accounts and threating many years in jail.
So forgive us if we’re not moved by the crocodile tears being shed over the Comey indictment.
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Holding him and others like him accountable for these abuses of the legal system is exactly what the American people voted for final November.
We await with great anticipation more to return.
John C. Eastman is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. He beforehand served as one of President Trump’s attorneys difficult illegality in the 2020 election, for which he has been indicted in Georgia and Arizona and really helpful for disbarment in California.
