President Donald Trump is not hiding his satisfaction with the criminal indictment of former FBI director James Comey, who was expected to surrender to the authorities on Friday.
“JUSTICE IN AMERICA!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “One of the worst human beings this Country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former Corrupt Head of the FBI.”
“Today, he was indicted by a Grand Jury on two felony counts for various illegal and unlawful acts," he added.
Trump has spent years clamoring for Comey and other "Deep State" actors to be held accountable for the Russian collusion hoax that consumed the president's first term. The charges against Comey provide Trump with a measure of satisfaction, although Comey's fate is in the hands of a Biden-appointed judge and a jury of his peers.
The indictment charges Comey with making false statements and obstruction of a congressional proceeding. In particular, Comey is accused of lying to Congress in September 2020 when he denied making unauthorized leaks to the press.
“That statement was false, because, as JAMES B. COMEY JR. then and there knew, he in fact had authorized PERSON 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1,” read the two-page indictment.
Comey is facing up to five years in prison if convicted on both counts. He maintains his innocence. “My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I’m innocent, so let’s have a trial and keep the faith,” he said in a Substack video.
Comey has never been one to conceal his feelings concerning Trump, having previously fallen under scrutiny for tweeting "8647," which some interpreted as a coded threat against the president.
Under Comey, the FBI was engulfed in a historic scandal as Trump's presidential campaign was spied on using opposition research from the Clinton camp as evidence.
The FBI's Trump-Russia probe eventually grew to consume much of Trump's first White House term, although he was ultimately cleared by special counsel Robert Mueller, who failed to uncover evidence of collusion.
Mueller's appointment was triggered in part by Trump's firing of Comey, who admitted to leaking sensitive memos in an effort to trigger the Special Counsel probe.
Democrats have decried Comey's indictment as an extraordinary act of political retribution, although many say Democrats have themselves to blame after they embraced a then-unprecedented effort by leftist prosecutors to derail Trump's 2024 campaign.
Trump has signaled that other opponents of his could still face charges, including former CIA director John Brennan, who also played a significant role in the Trump-Russia investigation.
"We’ll have to see what happens," he told Fox News Digital. "It is up to the Justice Department, but I can tell you, it is a group of people that was very disappointing,” Trump added. “This makes Watergate look like peanuts.”
“They tried to destroy our country," he added.
