An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras, four sources said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/04/world/crime-legal/fbi-comey-perp-walk-refusal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #fbi #jamescomey #donaldtrump
The Justice Department's indictment of the former FBI director appears to follow the Putin playbook: discredit the system to protect yourself. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/29/comey-indictment-subverts-trump-credibility/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #doj #fbi #jamescomey #andrewmccabe #pambondi
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"Donald can keep trying to distract us, but he has to get increasingly hyperbolic in order to do it. He has to go after bigger and bigger targets. And part of that, yes, is distraction, but part of it is also about assuaging his need for attention or to make him feel like a tough guy. he more he fails, the more desperate he gets."
~ Mary L. Trump
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/todays-top-political-news-with-mary-a34
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The 2-page indictment of #JamesComey, the fmr #FBI director, contains so little detail that #legal experts said it was hard to assess its merits.
…The brief indictment was signed by Lindsey Halligan, a[nother] fmr defense lawyer for #Trump whom he had appointed just days earlier as the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia—& whose first courtroom experience [ever] came when she presented the case, alone, on Thursday.
#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #fascism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/comey-indictment-legal-reaction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"Donald can keep trying to distract us, but he has to get increasingly hyperbolic in order to do it. He has to go after bigger and bigger targets. And part of that, yes, is distraction, but part of it is also about assuaging his need for attention or to make him feel like a tough guy. he more he fails, the more desperate he gets."
~ Mary L. Trump
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/todays-top-political-news-with-mary-a34
"So of course, he’s also going to continue going after people who don’t have power, who can’t fight back, who can’t make him look bad, and mock him."
"Donald can keep trying to distract us, but he has to get increasingly hyperbolic in order to do it. He has to go after bigger and bigger targets. And part of that, yes, is distraction, but part of it is also about assuaging his need for attention or to make him feel like a tough guy. he more he fails, the more desperate he gets."
~ Mary L. Trump
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/todays-top-political-news-with-mary-a34
"Why might this have finally crossed the Rubicon? Because Trump has now openly declared himself a despot by going after political enemies because they are enemies, without reasonable legal grounds. This is what despots do, often with consequences."
~ Gene Weingarten
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/the-question-of-the-day
"Misusing the power to imprison people is uniquely chilling in a free society. Our country has entered a grave new period of injustice."
~ New York Times
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/comey-indictment-justice-department.html
"[Trump's attack on James Comey is], quite simply, is a ‘break glass’ moment in American politics."
~ Andrew Weissman
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/comeys-indictment-is-the-break-glass
The 2-page indictment of #JamesComey, the fmr #FBI director, contains so little detail that #legal experts said it was hard to assess its merits.
…The brief indictment was signed by Lindsey Halligan, a[nother] fmr defense lawyer for #Trump whom he had appointed just days earlier as the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia—& whose first courtroom experience [ever] came when she presented the case, alone, on Thursday.
#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #fascism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/comey-indictment-legal-reaction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The U.S. criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey shatters norms of independence in federal investigations and will face significant hurdles in court, according to legal experts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/27/world/politics/trump-comey-opposition-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #us #jamescomey #republicans #democrats
James Comey, ex-chef du FBI et bête noire de Donald Trump, a été inculpé
#JamesComey avait été limogé lors du précédent mandat de #DonaldTrump, alors que l’agence enquêtait sur d’éventuelles ingérences russes dans la campagne 2016 du candidat républicain. Il est poursuivi pour fausse déclaration et entrave à la justice. «Je n’ai pas peur», réplique Comey.
Par Agence France-Presse › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/260925/james-comey-ex-chef-du-fbi-et-bete-noire-de-donald-trump-ete-inculpe?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart
Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on criminal charges of false statements and obstruction on Thursday, a person familiar with the move said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/26/world/crime-legal/fbi-comey-trump-charge/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #donaldtrump #fbi #jamescomey
Even for a president who has shattered the traditional norms of maintaining distance from the #DOJ, #Trump’s unabashedly public & explicit orders to #PamBondi were an extraordinary breach of prosecutorial protocols that reach back to the days following the #Watergate scandal.
#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
His demands came a day after he ousted the federal prosecutor who failed to charge 2 of the adversaries he most reviles, #LetitiaJames & #JamesComey, showing how far #Trump has gone in exerting personal control over the #DOJ & breaching the longstanding norm about keeping #politics at a distance from #LawEnforcement.
#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
#Trump demanded on Saturday that his AG move quickly to prosecute figures he considers his enemies, the latest blow to the #DOJ’s tradition of independence.
“We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation & credibility,” Trump wrote in a social media post addressed to “Pam,” meaning US AG #PamBondi. “They impeached me twice, & indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”
#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/trump-justice-department-us-attorneys.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump named #JamesComey, the former #FBI director; Senator #AdamSchiff, Democrat of California; & #LetitiaJames, the New York attorney general, saying he was reading about how they were “all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done.”
Asked later by reporters about his message for #PamBondi, Trump said, “They have to act. They have to act fast.”
#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState
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Prosecutor in Epstein case sues Trump justice department over abrupt firing
> Maurene Comey alleges firing was retaliation against father, former #FBI director #JamesComey
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/epstein-prosecutor-maurene-comey-lawsuit#MaureneComey#Epstein#DonaldTrump
Prosecutor in Epstein case sues Trump justice department over abrupt firing
> Maurene Comey alleges firing was retaliation against father, former #FBI director #JamesComey
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/epstein-prosecutor-maurene-comey-lawsuit#MaureneComey#Epstein#DonaldTrump