The former FBI director, James Comey, was offending for false declaration and obstruction to the congress. Trump exults, while America reopens the reckoning on the years of Russiagate.
Donald Trump He continues with the rendering of the accounts against the devices. Thursday, the former manager of the FBI, James Comeywas indicted by a federal jury with the double accusation of false declaration to the congress and of obstruction to a procedure of the congress itself. Everything revolves at around a testimony that Comey released to the Senate, remotely, on September 30, 2020 Clinton Foundation: a statement that, according to the prosecutors, would be false.
Reactions
“Justice in America! One of the worst human beings that this country has ever known is James Comey. Today he was indicted by a popular jury for two accusation for various illegal and illicit acts, “Trump said on Truth.
For its part, the prosecutor general of the United States, Pam Bondisaid that the incrimination “reflects the commitment of the Department of Justice in considering those who abuse positions of power responsible, deceiving the American people”.
“Today, the FBI has taken another step forward in its promise of full responsibility. For too long, the previous corrupt managers and their accomplices have exploited the Federal police as weapons,” commented the current director of the Bureau, Kash Patel.
Professioned innocent, Comey has instead declared: “My family and I have known for years that opposing Donald Trump has a price, but we could not imagine living in another way. We will not live on their knees, and you shouldn’t do it either”.
A story of tensions
The relationships between Trump and the former head of the FBI have always been very tense. It was under the direction of the same COMEY that the Bureau, during the 2016 election campaign, opened the controversial investigation Crossfire Hurricane: an investigation into the alleged collusion between the Trump electoral team and Russia.
In 2023, an investigative report by the special prosecutor John Durham He established that, given the absence of significant evidence, that investigation should never have started. Not only that: he also noted that the federals used an unfounded and unrelated document, the Steele dossier of the former British spy Christopher Steeleto ask and obtain from the magistrates of the surveillance mandates against the Trump team.
Russiagate and the showdown
The incrimination of Comey must then be read in the so -called frame Russiagate: that Russiagate who, despite the media outcry exploded between 2017 and 2019, was eventually over in one soap bubble. The investigative report of the special prosecutor Robert Mueller In fact, he did not find evidence of a collusion between the Trump team and the Kremlin.
The current American administration is therefore now committed to shedding light on the opaque origins of that alleged scandal. In addition to Comey, the former director of the Cia, John Brennanwhich, in July, ended up under the investigation of the FBI.
