"There are times when I miss practicing law, because right now there are few more important posts for defending the rule of law and the integrity of the American system of justice than on James Comey's defense team. Let's be clear perfectly clear about what happened last week. On Thursday, a federal grand jury, acting on the urging of President Donald Trump's Department of Justice, indicted Comey, the former director of the FBI."
"The indictment was the culmination of a transparently vindictive campaign by Trump to get revenge on his political enemies, no matter the facts or the law. Let's rewind the clock to May 2017. At the time, the FBI was investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, and Trump was furious that he was implicated. Trump reportedly demanded that aides speak out in his defense and was so angry that he was screaming at television clips about the investigation."
A federal grand jury indicted James Comey after a campaign by President Donald Trump that sought revenge against political opponents. The indictment followed actions during an FBI probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election and Trump's vocal outrage at being implicated. Evidence of misconduct among Trump associates included Michael Flynn's resignation for misleading Vice President Pence about contacts with the Russian ambassador and Paul Manafort's resignation over ties to Russian-allied Ukrainian leaders. The official rationale for firing Comey focused on his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and a Rod Rosenstein memorandum listing supervisory complaints, but that rationale served as a pretext for Trump's objective.
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