Former FBI director James Comi was killed late Thursday with two federal allegations, when President Trump pressured his justice department to prosecute his most prominent opponents.
In 2020, the testimony before the Senate is counted by Comi, as it investigated Trump’s 2016 campaign, which was with Russia, which the President has long reduced as a “witch hunt”.
While the officials of the Department of Justice have portrayed the prosecution as a step towards the accountability, Comi said that his “heart is broken” for the agency and he is innocent.
Comi is to be produced on 9 October in the federal court in Alexandria, they. His case will be maintained by American District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, a former President Biden appointment.
There are five things to know here.
Comi face trends, perjari charge
Comi’s prosecution includes two counts: wrong statement for the Congress and a Congress proceedings.
Hooligany takes a maximum fine of every five -year prison, although if convicted, Komi will be the first criminal, who will probably be less punished.
They are stemmed by an exchanges between Comi and Sen Ted Cruise (R-Texas) during the hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on 30 September, 2020.
Cruz asked Comi whether he had ever authorized Hillary Clinton’s email and Trump campaign and the FBI investigation into the connection between Russia.
Question on conflicting accounts between Komi and his former deputy, Andrew McKebe became zeroa leakFor the Wall Street Journal about Clinton Investigation Before the 2016 election.
McKebe indicated that Comi was aware of and authorized the leaks. Komi says he was unknown and in a conversation McKebe did not include even in a conversation after the story was published, he was also not involved.
A2018 Inspector General ReportWith Comi’s account, saying that McKebe authorized the leak and “lack of candor” when he told his boss and later investigators that he did not.
“What is Mr. McKebe saying and you testified to this committee, both cannot be true. One or the other is false. Who is telling the truth?” Cruz pressed.
Comi replied, “I can only talk about my testimony. I stand by testimony you have summarized.”
Prosecutors need to prove that Comi “deliberately and will” made “wrong, fictional or fraud” statement, and it was the material.
The prosecutors need to show that Comi tries to influence, obstruct, or interrupt the appropriate administration of the law in making a wrong statement.
Comi has been charged in the eastern district of Virginia as Kovid -19 due to the epidemic, McClen, Wa. In his house, his Congress testimony was given from a distance.
The prosecution followed the trump pressure campaign for allegations
Changes against Comi followed onePressure campaignFrom Trump, who issued a direct call to Attorney General Palm Bondi in the weekend to bring allegations against Comi and also consider other Presidents as his political opponent.
“Palm: I have reviewed more than 30 statements and posts, which states that, essentially, ‘the same old story, all, not being taken as the last time, no action is being done. Nothing is being done. Nothing is being done. What about Comi is being done.
“There is a great case … we can’t delay at any time.”
After those comments, for Virginia in the eastern district of the US Attorney, Eric Cebert resigned under pressure to bring allegations against Comi and James. Sebet had allegedly discontinued due to lack of evidence in cases.
Trump rapidly established the Lindsay Holigan, which was tapped as an interim replacement. Holigan, an employee of the White House, who practiced the insurance law before joining his criminal defense team in 2022, never tried the federal case.
A few days later, Trump officials brought an indictment before a grand jury, borrowing a line popular among Democrats in announcing the move.
“No one is above the law,” Bandy said while announcing the prosecution.
FBI Director Kash Patel, who worked on a 2016 investigation as an employee of the House Intelligence Committee, also said that Komi was corrupt.
He wrote in a post on X, “This politicization of law enforcement was not more pronounced than Riagate Hawks, which is an derogatory chapter in history that we continue to investigate and expose.”
“Everyone, especially on the positions of power, will be held in the account – no matter their vary.”
The testimony of Comi was filed in the case a few days before ending the five -year law boundaries before the Senate arrives before the Senate arrives on September 30, 2020.
The grand jury refused to indicate a count
However Comi was charged on two allegations,Court papersThat federal prosecutors initially chased three.
The Department of Justice told a federal grand jury that Komi was asked for a hearing during the same September 30, 2020 with another Sen Lindsay Graham (RS.C.) for another count to make false statements to the Congress.
Graham asked Comi whether he recalled Clinton’s “approval of a plan” to use Trump and Russian hackers, recalled as a means of distracting from the use of a private email server in US elections.
Comi replied, “This is not a bell with me.”
Graham said, “Okay. Okay, it’s a very surprising thing, it was not a bell.”
The erstwhile of the Grand Jury indicated that 12 or more did not agree to make allegations regarding the grand jurisdiction, meaning that the prosecutors could not proceed with it.
Comi accepts its innocence
Comi responded to the news of his own prosecution in a short video posted on Instagram, accepted his innocence and said he would not be afraid of the administration’s allegations against him.
“Somebody liked what I like, recently it has been said that ‘fear is a tyrannical tool.” And he is right, “Comi said in the video, his daughter, Mauurin Comi said later saidhe was firedAs a federal prosecutor in July.
“But I am not afraid, and I hope you are not. I hope you are instead. You are paying attention, and you will vote like your favorite country, which depends on it, which does it,” said Comi.
“My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I am very confident in the federal judicial system,” he said. “And I’m innocent. So, let’s have a test. And have faith.”
Comi, who earned the Ire of Democrats in 2016, had become rapidly outspoken since his departure from the FBI to push back against Trump, with the then candidate Hillary Clinton dealing with an inquiry into the email server.
Former FBI DirectorSupportedFormer President Biden and former Vice President Harris supported in 2020 elections2024 raceAgainst Trump.
Latest chapter in trump-kammi quarrel
After the years of attacks against Comi from Trump after Thursday’s prosecution.
Trump fired Komi as the FBI Director in 2017, while the bureau investigation was still going on, which led to the appointment of Special Advocate Robert Muller. Trump and Comi have had an adverse relationship since then, Trump called Komi a “dirty police” and said that he and othersFBI leaderThere were “scum”.
Earlier this year, the President accused Komi of an Instagram post from Cumi which was depicted on a beach, arranged to make “8647” numbers. Stretched from the hospitality industry, “86” can either refer to a customer’s need to cut or unlie menu items.
Democrats and other Trump critics were in a hurry to ring the alarm, suggesting that the President was ready to use the Department of Justice against his opponents.
“Donald Trump has clarified that he wants to convert our justice system into a weapon to punish and pacify our critics,” said in a statement, the top Democrat Sen Mark Warner (D-W) of the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a statement.
The House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrats, Rape Gym Hims (D-Con), called Comi’s prosecution “one of the most sick abuses of power in the history of DOJ”.
“Trump is using every tool available to get vengeance on his political rivals. It is a simple and simple of corruption- our country deserves better,” Hims posted on X.
