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Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted for lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation.
Truth be told, that indictment should be only the tip of the iceberg for the charges that Comey should eventually face, but even this modest first step has left-wing politicos caterwauling about President Trump’s “unprecedented” use of the Department of Justice to seek revenge on his political enemies — a “glass-break moment” that “thrust the Justice Department into perilous new territory,” according to The New York Times.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted that “using the justice system to go after political opponents is what dictators do.”
Sen. Chris Murphy says we are “IN” a constitutional crisis, and it’s time for political leaders to choose a side,: “democracy or autocracy.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin, who was a member of the astoundingly partisan and illegitimate Jan. 6 Select Committee, claimed the indictment was part of Trump’s “wrath and vengeance campaign.”
And ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, that paragon of nonpartisan virtue (NOT), claims that “norms have been shattered” with the indictment.
Where have they been?
Were these people completely blind to the weaponization of the Department of Justice, of the J6 Committee, of state prosecutor offices with whom they were colluding, and of bar disciplinary panels across the country that we witnessed the last four years (or actually, going back to Crossfire Hurricane in 2016, arguably the biggest political scandal in our nation’s history), or are they just congenital liars?
And do they really think that we, the American people, are so stupid as to not notice their hypocrisy?
Do they think we have forgotten their mantra, repeated incessantly over the past four years, that “no one is above the law”?
The facts seem pretty clear.
On Sept. 30, 2020, Comey testified before Congress and denied authorizing an unnamed contact to leak classified information to reporters about the ongoing Crossfire Hurricane investigation of Trump’s supposed connections with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He is charged with lying under oath, and for obstructing Congress’ investigation.
The whole Crossfire Hurricane probe is finally being exposed for the scam that it was, with recent criminal referrals from the Director of National Intelligence.
And the unbelievably unconstitutional use of general warrants to go after Trump and his supporters (including this author) has started to be revealed by the “Arctic Frost” documents disclosed last week by Sen. Chuck Grassley.
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It is hard, therefore, to accept at face value the newfound concerns coming from the left about the weaponization of law enforcement under President Trump.
But make no mistake: The indictment against Comey (and, let’s hope, numerous others that will follow in short order) is not a tit-for-tat moral equivalency.
Charging the people who weaponized our institutions of justice against Trump, beginning back in his first term and continuing for nearly a decade, is not revenge, but accountability and justice.
The entire “Russia Collusion” narrative was a hoax from the get-go, bankrolled with Hillary Clinton campaign funds laundered through her law firm, Perkins Coie.
The payments were falsely reported on campaign finance reports as “legal compliance” to hide that it was Clinton herself — via the hiring of a former British spy claiming to have Russian sources — who was “colluding with Moscow” against her political opponent in the 2016 election.
Top officials in the Obama administration then sought FISA warrants to spy on Trump’s campaign, doctoring evidence that it presented to the FISA court and destroying one of Trump’s advisers, Carter Page, in the process.
Crocodile tears
Then there was Trump’s impeachment over a phone call about Joe Biden’s corrupt interference with an investigation of a Ukrainian company on whose board his son sat, and the utterly false “insurrection” narrative generated in the wake of the 2020 election that targeted not just the president but scores of electors, attorneys (myself included) and numerous other Trump supporters — tarnishing reputations, depleting bank accounts and threating decades in prison.
So forgive us if we’re not moved by the crocodile tears being shed over the Comey indictment.
Holding him and others like him accountable for these abuses of the legal system is precisely what the American people voted for last November.
We await with great anticipation more to come.
John C. Eastman is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. He previously served as one of President Trump’s attorneys challenging illegality in the 2020 election, for which he has been indicted in Georgia and Arizona and recommended for disbarment in California.