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Cai Pigliucci<\/strong>Reporting from Capitol Hill<\/p>\n
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Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n
Much of the focus in this hearing has centred on James Comey. The
\nJustice Department secured an indictment against the former FBI Director less
\nthan two weeks ago – after President Trump called for his prosecution. <\/p>\n
Tomorrow, Comey will appear in court. He faces one count of making false
\nstatements and one count of obstruction of justice. The indictment relates to his own congressional
\ntestimony in 2020 – he is accused of lying to a Senate committee about whether he authorised a leak of classified information to the media. <\/p>\n
He denies the allegations.<\/p>\n
Critics say Bondi and the Justice Department are targeting the
\npresident’s adversaries. Many of the questions so far today on Comey from both
\nsides of the aisle have been met with Bondi’s statement that she cannot discuss
\nit.<\/p>\n
Democrats have argued it’s a political indictment. Democratic
\nSenator Amy Klobuchar asked Bondi if the President’s post on Truth Social
\ncalling for Comey’s indictment is considered a directive to the Justice
\nDepartment. <\/p>\n
“President Trump is the most transparent president in American
\nhistory, and I don’t think he said anything that he hasn’t said for
\nyears,” Bondi replied. Bondi also said that Comey was indicted by one of
\nthe “most liberal grand juries in the country”.<\/p>\n
Chuck Grassley, Republican senator and chair of the committee, has said that Comey “ought to be held accountable” if the facts and evidence supports the finding that he lied to Congress. <\/p>\n
Democrat Senator Chris Coons just told Bondi that the indictment of Comey
\n“left me very concerned about the direction of the department”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-FBI boss James Comey’s name keeps coming uppublished at 16:41 BST 16:41 BST Cai PigliucciReporting from Capitol Hill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-480805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115333898893369342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}