The Sunshines the courthouse of Albert V. Bryan in Alexandria, Virginia, on September 26, 2025, which morning after accusation against former FBI director James Comey, in the morning. His original court date is planned there on October 9 (photo by Alex Kent/Getty Images)
Former FBI director James Comey proclaimed his innocence in charges of federal disability and described the indictment against him as a result of the “Standing of Donald Trump” in a video published in the social media, while the current director Kash Patel tried to eliminate law enforcement that law enforcement was politically motivated.
In the meantime, Trump continued in the remark of reporters on Friday morning Comey and also demanded that other enemies are also being prosecuted.
Comey in the video urged a process to prove that he is innocent. “My heart was broken for the Ministry of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system,” said Comey in slow Thursday video Posted on Instagram. “I am innocent, so let’s take an exam and keep the faith.”
Comey, the Federal Grand Jury in Virginia accused In two charges on Thursday, he and his family said “for years that there were costs to improve Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine that we live in another way.”
In a social media post on September 20, Trump had publicly urged the Attorney General Pam Bondi to raise charges against Comey – with whom he has been missing for a long time – and other political opponents.
In the same place, Trump referred to the law enforcement against him to justify an examination of his opponents. He also withdrawn the appointment of a federal prosecutor in Virginia, who reported reportedly against instructions on the criminal prosecution of Comey and replaced him by Lindsey Halligan, an insurance lawyer who had worked for Trump in his personal property.
Trump celebrated the indictment in a Thursday evening post.
“Justice in America!” Trump wrote. “One of the worst people to whom this country has ever been exposed is James Comey, the former corrupt head of the FBI.”
Asked by a reporter on Friday morning whether other retaliation would be confronted, Trump hoped that he was hoping.
“You have armed the Ministry of Justice like no one in history,” he said. “What they did is terrible. And so I would honestly hope that there are others because they cannot let this happen to a country.”
Trump motifs asked
Trump’s movements prompted Democrats and other critics of Trump to describe Comey’s prosecution as a retaliation measure that the president’s opponents should punish, and violated a long -standing standard that separates the president from direct participation in the activities of the Ministry of Justice.
On an early Friday Post to XPatel tried to counteract this narrative and said professionals treated the investigation.
“Career -FBI agent, Intel analysts and employees led the examination of Comey and others,” he wrote. “They called the balls and strikes and will continue to do so. The wild false accusations that this FBI attack for the politicization of law enforcement come from the same bankrupt media that sold the world at the Russia scor.
Comey’s original court date is planned for October 9 in Alexandria, Virginia, in front of the US district judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, who was appointed by President Joe Biden.
Be charge Patrick Fitzgerald, a long -time public prosecutor, who led Comey’s defense.
The Grand Jury accused Comey of having lied to the congress and hindered a congress procedure that was obtained with his testimony to a Senate committee whether he had authorized the FBI agents to trigger information about an investigation into the participation in Russia in the 2016 presidential election, which Trump won.
Democrats blast
In a long explanation on Thursday, Jamie Raskin, the top democrat at the US House justice committee, described the indictment as “obviously fraudulent and vengeful”.
“The rule of law was supposed to replace Vendendas, blood feuds and crazy kings, stimulate the revenge on their perceived enemies,” wrote Raskin. “This dirty episode is another wild attack on justice in America.”
The Senate Justice Committee, who assessed the Democrat Dick Durbin from Illinois, asked the Republicans to oppose Trump’s participation in the Ministry of Justice.
“The Ministry of Justice has become a political instrument of a vengeful president,” said Durbin in a statement on Friday morning. “President Trump bears his corruption like an honorary badge and defies someone who dares to challenge him. The Attorney General willingly meets every command of the White House. Is there a Republican who remains in Washington who is a damn one?”
