Former FBI Director James Comey Charged with Federal Obstruction and Perjury - Internewscast Journal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump immediately cheered the decision.
39% : According to the indictment, Comey obstructed Congress by lying to a Senate panel during his 2020 appearance for questioning on investigations into Trump in 2016.
37% : " "Trump is using every tool available to get vengeance on his political rivals.
35% : During that hearing, Comey was asked about whether he ever authorized leaks about the investigation into Trump -- something the director denied.
35% : " While he initially retained Comey as FBI director, Trump later removed him from his post in 2019.
31% : Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said "Donald Trump has made clear that he intends to turn our justice system into a weapon for punishing and silencing his critics.
29% : "My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way.
27% : "Today, after firing his own choice for U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, Donald Trump finally got a subservient new replacement to carry out his revenge prosecution against former FBI Director James Comey by bringing baseless criminal charges against him," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement, adding that the American justice system was "supposed to replace vendettas.
26% : A federal grand jury has charged former FBI Director James Comey, with the decision coming shortly after President Trump called for legal action against him.
24% : " "But Trump refuses to allow the facts or the law to stand in the way of his wrath and vengeance campaign....
17% : " Trump fired Comey as FBI director in 2017 while the bureau's investigation was still ongoing, leading to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller.
17% : Comey, who earned the ire of Democrats in 2016 with his handling of an investigation into then-candidate Hillary Clinton's email server, endorsed former President Biden in the 2020 election and backed former Vice President Harris in the 2024 race against Trump.
9% : Trump took to his social media platform over the weekend to issue a direct call to Bondi for an indictment of Comey, alongside other perceived political enemies of the president.
4% : Trump and Comey have had an adversarial relationship ever since, with Trump calling Comey a "dirty cop" and said he and other FBI leaders were "scum.

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