James Comey charged federal accusations in the middle of the current quarrel with Trump
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The former FBI director, James Comey, who was charged on Friday for two federal accusations alleging that he had published a false declaration in the congress and obstructed justice, previously called those who were under oath to cope with consequences.
For example, Comey has once mowed against the lifestyle icon Martha Stewart, who was found guilty of misleading federal investigators, and said that his case was an example to dissuade others from lying to civil servants.
“Stewart’s experience reminded me that the justice system is an honorary system,” wrote Comey in his book, “higher loyalty”, published in 2018. “We cannot always say when people lie or hide documents, so when we are able to prove it, we just don’t have to make a message.”
Martha Stewart’s anger at James Comey for having made his criminal “trophy” is “understandable,” said the lawyer
“There was once a time when most people were worried about going to hell if they raped an oath ready in the name of God,” wrote Comey. “This divine deterrence has moved away from our modern cultures. In its place, people must fear going to prison … To protect the institution of justice and strengthen a culture of truth, it had to be continued.”
Comey was the principal prosecutor who charged Stewart for obstructing justice and lies at the FBI in 2003, which stems from the FBI initiates’ commercial investigation into the Stewart friend’s friend, Imclone.
Stewart was finally sentenced to four counts to hinder justice and lie to investigators. She was sentenced to five months in prison.
Former FBI director James Comey sprang against the lifestyle icon Martha Stewart, who was found guilty of misleading federal investigators, and said that his case was an example to dissuade others from lying to civil servants. (Images Brendon Thorne / Getty)
Comey’s declaration in his book aligns with those he made at the time. After the accusations were filed against Stewart in 2003, Comey said that “Stewart’s case is to lie – lie to the FBI, lie to the dry and investors.”
“It is a conduct that will not be tolerated. Martha Stewart is prosecuted not because of whom she is, but what she did,” Comey said at a press conference in 2003.
Stewart took a blow to Comey in his Netflix documentary entitled “Martha”, which was published in October 2024.
“It was so horrible for me that I had to go through there to be a trophy for these idiots in the office of the American prosecutor,” said Stewart.
Fox News Digital contacted Comey to comment and has not yet received an answer.
Trump – Comey Vendetta in the spotlight
Meanwhile, Comey’s quarrel with President Donald Trump is also back under the spotlight after Comey’s indictment.
The two men clashed for years, going back to Trump’s first administration in the FBI investigation into the question of whether Russia interfered in the 2016 elections, and they continued to exchange beards during Trump’s second term.
While Trump launched terms like the “sick person” and “false slime”, Comey also aroused criticism against the president and said that he was not able to be in office.
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Former FBI director James Comey is seen during an audience on Capitol Hill in 2017. (Associated Press)
For example, Comey described Trump as someone who “constantly lies on big and small things and insists that the American people believes it”, and wondered if Trump embodied American values during an interview in April 2018 with ABC News before the release of his book, “a higher loyalty”.
“I do not think that he is medically unfit to be president – I think he is morally unfit to be president … It is not a policy declaration,” Comey told ABC News. “Again, I don’t care about your opinions on firearms, immigration or taxes. There is something more important than that, which should unite us all, and to know that our president must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the heart of this country, the most important being the truth. This president is unable to do so.”
The same month, Comey attracted Trump’s anger, who accused Comey of being a “terrible” FBI director and that it was his “great honor” to the late Comey.
“James Comey is a proven leak and liar. Everyone’s practice in Washington thought he should be dismissed for the terrible work he has done until he was in fact dismissed. He disclosed classified information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to the Oath Congress,” Trump said in a post of social media in April 2018.
Comey denies the accusations, says: “I’m not afraid”
President Donald Trump and former FBI director James Comey have had a longtime quarrel. (Alex Kraus / Bloomberg via Getty Images and Photo by Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)
“It is a weak slime ball and a lie that was, as led time, a terrible director of the FBI … It was my great honor to dismiss James Comey!” Said Trump.
Trump dismissed Comey in May 2017, just after Comey revealed in March 2017 before the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI had launched a criminal investigation to find out if the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia in the 2016 elections.
At the time, Trump said that he had ousted Comey because of his management of an investigation into the use by the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton of a private messaging server.
Comey, who previously identified as a republican, then approved former President Joe Biden in the 2020 elections. He also called for “all those who care about the rule of law and the essential role of America in the world” to put himself behind the former vice-president Kamala Harris as a Democratic candidate in the 2024 elections when she clashed against Trump.
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President Donald Trump said at the time that he ousted FBI director James Comey because of his management of an investigation into the use by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton of a private messaging server. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)
“Kamala Harris made me feel that it was finally in the morning in America,” wrote Comey in an article on X in August 2024.
More recently, Comey and Trump argued after the former FBI director published a photo on Instagram in May representing shells arranged on a beach to explain “86,47”. The term “86” can mean getting rid of something or someone, and Trump is the 47th president.
Following reactions from Trump Allies who interpreted Comey’s post as a threat to withdraw Trump, Comey said that thought had not crossed his mind and that he opposed “the violence of any kind”.
However, Trump did not buy Comey’s explanation.
“He knew exactly what it meant,” Trump told Fox News. “A child knows what it meant. If you are the director of the FBI and you don’t know what it meant, it meant assassination.”
George Stephanopoulos sits with the former FBI director, James Comey, for an interview in a special “20/20” on April 15, 2018. (Ralph Alswang / Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
After Comey’s accusation, Trump said in an article on social networks on Friday that Comey is “one of the worst human beings to which this country has ever been exposed”, and qualified the former FBI director as “dirty cop”.
The accusations against Comey are linked to his testimony to the Senate judicial committee in September 2020 concerning the FBI investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections. Meanwhile, Comey denied the allegations accumulated in the accusations against him and said that he was “not afraid”.
“My family and I have known for years that there are costs to resist Donald Trump, but we could not imagine living differently,” said Comey in an Instagram video. “We will not live on your knees, and you should not either. Someone I love very recently says that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and it is right.”
Audrey Conklin de Fox News contributed to this report.
