James Comey led a powerful arm of our Justice Department. Let that sink in while you watch this:
Commenting on AG Barr not charging Trump w/ obstruction, James @Comey invokes his own prosecution of @MarthaStewart — widely viewed as an abuse of prosecutorial power — to argue in favor of charging people with process crimes even if there's no underlying crime. pic.twitter.com/9KH4p6kT3w
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 2, 2019
Why should we ever take James Comey seriously when it comes to Donald Trump when he can’t even get his own legal record in order?
— Long little doggie (@54Doggie) April 2, 2019
You said it, Martha Stewart:
This is absolutely bonkers. @Comey is invoking his dogged pursuit of Martha Stewart as the model for charging POTUS – a case that was laughably thin. https://t.co/iP4U8Ktv6h https://t.co/acHLX3tnRb
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) April 2, 2019
This is some next level revisionist history and sleight of hand. Martha Stewart was convicted for obstruction in connection with making false statements to investigators. Also Comey's office *did* charge her with securities fraud (a judge tossed it). https://t.co/A2jp6q7OCD
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 2, 2019
"Comey didn’t charge Stewart with insider trading. Instead, he claimed that Stewart’s public protestations of innocence were designed to prop up the stock price of her own company, and thus constituted securities fraud."https://t.co/Jv9xmz5JhQ
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) April 2, 2019
In the Martha Stewart case, a textbook example of prosecutorial abuse, there was a substantive underlying charge (securities fraud) and false statements which themselves evidenced obstruction. In Trump's case, there's no underlying charge, and investigators never interviewd DJT.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 2, 2019
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"In essence, Stewart was prosecuted for “having misled people by denying having committed a crime with which she was not charged,” as Cato Institute Senior Fellow Alan Reynolds put it." Now apply that to Trump.https://t.co/Jv9xmz5JhQ
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) April 2, 2019
Imagine if Comey was still in a position to use that same standard against POTUS. I swear, this guy…https://t.co/YbPUUaodA1
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) April 2, 2019
I was told by a law enforcement friend involved directly in that case that he “wouldn’t sleep at night” if he had acted like as much of a headhunting maniac as Comey did
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) April 2, 2019
And now he's invoking it as a positive! Why didn't Barr follow Comey's lead set out in his most eyeroll-inducing case? Oh, it's a mystery. https://t.co/u0q4Fws2jM
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) April 2, 2019
Yeesh.
It kind of scares me that he ran the FBI …
— A.P. Nehring (@AndrewNehring) April 2, 2019
Your concern is not unwarranted.
Why are we still having this guy on mainstream news networks? There's widespread agreement that he sucked at his job, and even taking his viewpoint with a grain of salt is arguably too generous
— Kenny Brawner (@kennybrawner) April 2, 2019
In closing, James Comey is a corrupt emo giraffe with a long history of prosecutorial abuse, a garbage understanding of the law, and a complete inability to discern reality from fantasy, and should therefore not be taken seriously by serious people.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 2, 2019
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Wow, it took CNN and Christiane Amanpour for us to actually have a little respect for James Comey