"In 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein produced a letter purporting to fire FBI Director James Comey for being too mean to Hillary Clinton. "The Director laid out his version of the facts for the news media as if it were a closing argument, but without a trial," he tut-tutted over Comey's press conference explaining his decision not to prosecute the presidential candidate. "It is a textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents are taught not to do.""
"Because history may not rhyme, but it does echo ... in the stupidest way possible. Then as now, absolutely no one was fooled. In 2017, Trump raced to confirm on television that he'd fired Comey to end the investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia. In 2025, Trump brayed for and then celebrated the charges against his enemies without bothering himself too much about the nature of the supposed crime."
Rod Rosenstein in 2017 produced a letter that sought to remove FBI Director James Comey, criticizing Comey’s public explanation of his decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton as improper. In 2025, Donald Trump's personal lawyer pursued and Trump celebrated an indictment of Comey for allegedly lying, echoing earlier accusations that Comey acted improperly in public. Trump publicly lauded the charges with inflammatory rhetoric while prosecutors had not yet filed a bill of particulars. The reported offense appears to be a false-statement charge under 18 U.S.C. §1001 concerning Comey’s denial about authorizing a deputization. The events illustrate a pattern of political retaliation through legal means.
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