The Quarter-Assed Comey Prosecution
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Fuck James Comey with his own vast personified ego, but this prosecution is, well, stupid. What’s going to happen when this case either never goes to trial or is laughed out of court? What will Scumbag Don do? It’s going to make him and his roving band of racist fools look even stupider than they already do.
But the case against the former FBI director and longtime Trump nemesis may quickly end in disappointment — and even humiliation — for the prosecutor who was conscripted by the president to bring the charges.
The bare-bones indictment secured by that prosecutor, Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan, is exceptionally weak, former prosecutors and legal experts say. Fundamental problems with the case itself — as well as the unusual events that preceded the indictment — will make it difficult to bring Comey to trial, let alone secure a conviction.
Former federal terrorism prosecutor Andy McCarthy called the charges “poorly done” and predicted they will be thrown out by a judge well before any trial.
“The whole thing is just bizarro,” McCarthy said. “This is the kind of thing that should never ever happen. … This case should never go to trial because it’s obvious from the four corners of the indictment that there’s no case.”
The issues that could doom the case include the overt political pressure by Trump to bring the indictment, Halligan’s own inexperience, peculiarities in the indictment itself and even a five-year-old technology issue.
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Comey’s lawyers are virtually certain to highlight the public pressure campaign in a motion asking U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff — the Biden appointee who was randomly assigned to handle the case — to dismiss the charges as selective and vindictive.
“If I’m defending Comey, that Trump order to Pam Bondi to prosecute him, that’s a big problem,” said one former Eastern District of Virginia prosecutor, who was granted anonymity because he fears retaliation for speaking about the case. “That’s going to bite them in a big way. … Comey could become the poster child for selective prosecution.”
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A telling sign of the unusual nature of the Comey case — and, potentially, its weaknesses — is that no career prosecutors put their names on it.
Typically, federal indictments are signed by assistant U.S. attorneys, the rank-and-file prosecutors who specialize in specific areas of criminal law and who may have spent months or years building the case. But the Comey indictment was signed only by Halligan, a longtime insurance lawyer who had no prosecutorial experience when she was sworn in as interim U.S. attorney on Monday.
Halligan is best known in Trump world for being the first attorney present when the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago ahead of criminal charges Trump faced for hoarding classified documents there after his first term ended. More recently, she had been combing through Smithsonian offerings to ensure they align with Trump’s agenda.
It is unclear whether any career lawyers in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia agreed with the decision to seek charges against Comey or will be willing to help conduct the day-to-day work of the prosecution.
Prosecutors can face professional sanctions — including disbarment — for bringing a case without a valid basis. A trio of former White House ethics lawyers who have been persistent Trump critics pressed the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on Friday to investigate Halligan’s unexpected appointment on the eve of the Comey indictment.
It would be hilarious if this got Halligan disbarred, but of course it won’t because our elites want to suck up to Trump too bad. But this is the most laughable case of all time. I mean, maybe at this point, Trump opens the camps and has Comey thrown into them, but that’s another set of issues.