I am no lawyer, but in my uneducated judgment, it is quite likely that Jonathan Turley is quite right that the James Comey indictment is almost certainly junk that will fall apart under scrutiny.
And, to be far more fair, if this happened to anybody else, conservative or liberal, I would cheer when it fell to a challenge. There is zero doubt that this is politically motivated. After all, Gretchen Whitmer has an 86 47 sign in her office. Democrats around the country have similar signs, or much worse, and have escaped indictment.
As one of his longest and most vocal critics, I would frankly prefer to crawl into one of Comey's conversant shells than write this column. However, here we are. This indictment is unconstitutional and will not likely survive constitutional challenge...https://t.co/F1bDKnhYYw
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 29, 2026
And I won't weep when it is dismissed, but I would be happy if they could convict Comey of just about any real crime. Because I think harassing James Comey is exactly the right thing to do.
Democrats have been committing far worse lawfare against Donald Trump and his allies for the past decade, and in a much worse fashion. James Comey was a gleeful participant in that effort, and broke many laws doing so.
Deterrence requires striking back, especially since Democrats are promising even worse lawfare if and when they get back in power.
DISGUSTING: Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) suggests Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should be EXECUTED like Nazi submarine captains from WWII — for obliterating Iran’s terrorist regime and taking out drug cartel boats in the Caribbean.
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) April 30, 2026
CNN’s Erin Burnett: “Do you believe that… pic.twitter.com/TYbCAw8xKS
It's now common for Democrats to collect the names of federal employees and Republicans they intend to jail when they have the opportunity, and use such promises in campaigns. Seth Moulton wants Pete Hegseth executed, and openly says so on CNN. President Trump was harassed for years by false accusations in Crossfire Hurricane, as James Comey knew that it was entirely made up.
He has gone on national TV to spread lies, run a department that lied to the courts, made up falsehoods to open investigations, leaked falsehoods to the press, and pushed an impeachment process that came crashing down as the evidence came out.
SCOOP: DOJ prosecutors in Virginia are pursuing separate charges against James Comey for allegedly leaking classified info.
— Ben Penn (@benjaminpenn) April 30, 2026
Blanche's DOJ, not satisfied with just '86 47' case, in recent weeks revived nat sec probe that stalled out last year. https://t.co/ibQslBkAQO
Comey is total scum, and the reason why I approve of obvious lawfare against him is that only the threat of tit-for-tat will stop this steady stream of abuses of power.
Under oath Comey didn’t want to “speculate”….in interviews he did nothing but spread the lies he knew were lies. pic.twitter.com/EdL7DReafy
— Clyp Keeper (@DGrayTexas45) April 30, 2026
Republicans have unilaterally disarmed, and as a consequence, the Democrats have gone into "Maximum Warfare Everywhere All the Time," as Hakeem Jeffries put it himself.
Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries last week: "We are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere, all the time."
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) April 26, 2026
Yesterday, a gunman tried to assassinate the President. pic.twitter.com/wcYwTRUyjj
We got the message. President Trump certainly got that message from all the bullets that fly his way. Politicians have run for office promising to jail Donald Trump, without there even being a crime they can point to. Show me the man, I'll show you the crime. That's Stalinism.
2018. Comey and Colbert smear Trump by discussing the "unverified" details of the Steele dossier.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 29, 2026
Comey knew the dossier was fiction and that it was paid for by the Clinton campaign. Of course he and Colbert preplanned the discussion.
Evil stuff.pic.twitter.com/bugIFjdnb6
James Comey is the perfect target because he has led the charge over the past decade, trying to derail his candidacy and his presidency, and being quite open about his desire to get the president by any means necessary, and go after his supporters as well.
Turnabout is not just fair play. In "maximum warfare," to use the Democrats' term, it is the only way to deter.
2023. Comey on who to prosecute for Jan 6th:
— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 28, 2026
"Get all of them...Find everybody who went into that building. Find them all...We will punish everyone who went in there...We will hunt you to the end of the earth, even for a misdemeanor, and make you pay.”pic.twitter.com/G43OVE3n5e
If Comey were still vulnerable to charges of perjury, I would love to see him in jail. He deserves it. He broke the law in any number of ways, and provably so. He has even admitted as much, approving leaks of classified information. But he is no likely vulnerable to any legitimate charges, so he needs to pay the price using the means he used for so many years.
The Hill is out with my column on the news that James Comey has been subpoenaed in the Russian collusion probe. The real Russian collusion conspiracy. At issue is what could be the greatest political hit job in history...https://t.co/PY4adbz7eC
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 21, 2026
Whatever you think of President Trump, you should be appalled by the fact that his opponents have warped the power of the federal government to attack a political opponent. Unfortunately, most Democrats aren't, just as they are not bothered by the fact that the Democratic Party is basically a crime syndicate.
Obama’s legal hatchet man, Norm Eisen, was behind the effort to get Lindsey Halligan disqualified which is simply about keeping his fellow criminals from being held accountable because Norm is their co-conspirator. https://t.co/Q7m5BeUpcV
— The Researcher (@listen_2learn) April 30, 2026
They will complain bitterly that Comey is getting treated unfairly, and my response is the same as any president with his finger on the nuclear button: there is only one way to deter nuclear aggression, which "Maximum Warfare" amounts to in the political world: you nuke us, we nuke you back.
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