Trump admin suffers blow in James Comey case

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  1. By Robert Alexander — Senior Crime & Court Reporter |

    A federal judge in Virginia has denied a Justice Department request for extended discovery deadlines in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, ordering prosecutors to provide all discovery materials to the defense by 5 p.m. today, October 13.

    Comey, who led the FBI from 2013 to 2017, was indicted on September 25 in the Eastern District of Virginia on two felony counts: making false statements to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.

    Newsweek reached out to the Department of Justice for comment via email outside of normal office hours on Monday.

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  2. Imaginary bullshit political case has no substance, imagine that.

  3. Judge: “You brought a case. Where’s your evidence?”

    DOJ: “We’re going to work on that now.”

    Very similar to the RFK Jr autism link.

  4. I told you to bring your shit Karen. Why are you asking for more time? This train is leaving; you on it?

  5. Okay, number one, Your Honor, just look at him, and he talks like a *** too. And “B,” we’ve got all this, like, evidence… of how, like, this guy didn’t even pay at the hospital. *And I heard that he doesn’t even have his tattoo.* I know! And I’m all, “You’ve gotta be shittin’ me.” But check this out, man.

    Judge should be like, “Guilty.” Peace.

  6. I cannot help thinking that opening the door to prosecuting officials in former governments is not a step they want to be taking.

  8. We’ve got hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence.

  11. All of the things that Comey is being accused of sound like things Trump’s lackeys have been doing.

  13. I’m very confused as to why this is being prosecuted under Trump. If he had in fact been the one to instruct an underling to report to the media that they are investigating “Person 1” [Hillary Clinton] why would it be beneficial for republicans to have that out in the open?

  14. This is funny because Lindsey “Insurance Lawyer” Halligan brought suit in the Eastern District of Virginia because she thought it would be a more friendly jurisdiction than DC. No one told her it’s the “Rocket Docket” jurisdiction, and the judge there isn’t going to bend over for all her delay tactics.

    Comey: “Speedy trial now, please!!”

  15. Republicans don’t care or even want this case to proceed. The current situation gives them three things they need.

    1. Their base is already locked in with the talking points of Comey being indicted.
    2. It further terrorizes and intimidates Trump’s political opponents
    3. When the trial doesn’t proceed, Republicans will just blame “activist judges” committing an insurrection against the Trump admin

  16. When they toss this case outta court, I hope James seeks to have Donald’s hellish lawyers disbarred for bringing a frivolous case.

  17. Newsweek is the only news source that has this. All the others are at the least 2 days old. WTF!?

  18. Seems like minor procedural details like this don’t really matter when the charges are completely made up in a purely political prosecution.

  19. No admin deserves blow suffering more than this admin in American history, change my mind

  20. Judge will see right through this bullshit of how Trump took one of his personal defense attorneys and gave her a temporary appointment to go after a political rival

    She has 0 experience as a prosecutor, and she’s already tripping over herself and unprepared. Her predecessor didn’t want to proceed due to a lack of evidence, and Trump fired him.

    So what does she do? She files anyway….without adequate evidence. Then asks a Judge for an extension to go find some evidence?

    She should temporarily lose her license to practice law for knowingly wasting everyones’ time

  21. “ The president told us to charge him so we did, but it’s gonna take some time for us to find evidence to justify it.”

  22. “What People Are Saying
    President Donald Trump told reporters after Comey’s indictment: “It’s about justice. He lied, he lied a lot…It’s about justice, not revenge.”

    Whoa I think Trump got caught talking about himself again.

  23. The wider concern here—with all the missteps and errors—is that this is how the inexperienced, incompetent ideologues are handling actual criminal cases. People who should be in jail are going to be set free because the fascist administration is more interested in petty personal politics than in protecting us from criminals.

  24. Something that I just never see in news and analysis is just how much Trump has gummed up our justice system.

    Since he took the national stage a decade ago, it feels like there’s been a story every day of people, groups, and States filing lawsuits against him and people in his administration, and Trump and his team filing BS lawsuits against other people.

    There are only so many hours in a day, and these are real lawyers, judges, clerks, bailiffs, administrative staff, and juries who have to process all these suits.

    I cannot fathom the tens of thousands (if not more) “normal” suits – between regular people, small businesses, municipalities, etc – that have been delayed due to the urgency to process all of these Trump suits, and what that has done to countless Americans’ lives.

  25. “Your honor, we need more time, we’re trying to find out who James Homey is. Oh, Comey, yeah, that’s right James Comey. How much is the most time we can delay this for?”

  26. I’m concerned that the Trump admin is bungling a lot of these cases on purpose to keep the “deep state” narrative going. Having these cases actually go to trial not only will take forever to have any conclusion come about but will also fail to back up their claims. It’s much faster to bungle the trial, get it thrown out, and use these failures as reasons that they need to violate the law to purge courts of reasonable judges.

  29. I think everybody pretty much expected this exact thing to happen.

  30. These prosecutors need to be disbarred immediately after this transparently false case.

  31. Oops. I wonder if Comey ever wonders if he was right to open an investigation on Clinton right before the election.

    “Just 11 days before the 2016 presidential election, Comey informed Congress that the FBI was reviewing newly discovered emails that could be relevant to the case.

    A little more than a week later, Comey sent a second letter to Congress stating that the review of the new emails had not changed the FBI’s original conclusion that no charges were warranted.”

    Sounds like he is having the day he orchestrated.

  32. Innocent people: speedy trial, please; I need to get on with my life and keep the legal costs low.

    Guilty people named Trump: I need to delay the trial until it doesn’t matter anymore.

  33. They couldn’t manufacture evidence fast enough.

  35. The judge should dismiss the case with prejudice and sanction the prosecutor and any other government lawyer that worked on that case.

  37. Judge: Where’s your evidence? Documents? Proof? Anything to show this isn’t frivolous.

    Prosecution: Your Honor, potus said comey’s guilty….so…you know….Look, I still got student loans…I don’t want to get fired….I don’t want him tweeting about me….c’mon, Your Honor.

  38. Bondi: oh crap! We have to actually go to court? Let’s ask ChatGPT

  39. Just how much are all this suits he’s filing and the defense for all the suits filed against him costing the tax payers????

  40. Typical trump shit, sue for every tiny thing and see what sticks.

  41. The Trump admin will never suffer anything because they are immune to consequences.

  42. * Judge: Produce the evidence.
    * DOJ: Sorry, but we’re going to need more time. The defense asked questions. 😢
    * Judge: Then why’d you bring the case this early?
    * DOJ: Yeah, this judge is clearly a woke RINO democrat that is probably Biden wearing a mask being puppeted by a trans person. Clearly a mistrial and we win.
    * Supreme Court: Makes sense.

  43. The Trump administration prosecuting Comey while Kash Money is head of the FBI is an absolute joke. MAGA doesn’t care at all about the rule of law.

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