"Trump's blunt remarks underscored the perilous moment for his political adversaries, given that the justice department pressed ahead with criminal charges against Comey, even though it was widely seen inside and outside the administration to be a weak case. The indictment against Comey, filed in federal district court on Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia, alleged that he misled lawmakers in September 2020 when he stood by his previous testimony to Congress claiming he had never authorized anyone at the FBI to leak to reporters."
"Prosecutors alleged that statement was not true and that Comey had authorized his friend and Columbia law school professor Dan Richman to leak to reporters about an investigation into Hilary Clinton, when Richman worked for a short time as a special government employee at the FBI. But the underlying evidence against Comey, which remains unclear from the two-page indictment, was considered to be insufficient for a conviction."
Donald Trump said he expected additional political adversaries to face criminal charges and called them corrupt radical left Democrats. The justice department indicted former FBI director James Comey for allegedly misleading lawmakers in September 2020 by denying authorization of leaks. Prosecutors alleged Comey authorized Columbia law professor Dan Richman to leak information about the Hillary Clinton investigation while Richman briefly served as a special government employee at the FBI. The two-page indictment's underlying evidence remained unclear and was widely seen as insufficient for conviction. An interim US attorney declined to bring charges and was replaced by Lindsey Halligan, who pursued the case and presented it to a grand jury, which returned a two-count indictment.
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