‘Dangerous abuse of power’: lawmakers sound alarm over Comey indictment Democrats and legal experts say indictment is latest sign Trump is turning justice system into weapon to silence critics

[texassapper]

Originally Posted by eccieuser9500

Authoritarian Fascist. Isn't it nice to admit it, finally?

Meh, Who cares what leftists think? I don't care if you call me a Nazi or the KKK, or even French. your insults don't work anymore. And if Americans have to get called Nazi to eliminate communists... well I will sleep just fine at night.

Round up the lefties, progs, and pANTIFAgs for "sight seeing" helo trips over the Gulf of America...

[Jacuzzme]

[Tiny]

Rotflmao!

[Levianon17]

Originally Posted by CG2014

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...tment-reaction


Biden did the same thing for 4 years including ordering U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to make up anything to throw Trump in prison during the several attempts in NY State and Georgia State by Leticia James and Fani Willis, who is now in trouble


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fan...elated-records


But did the Democrat lawmakers sound any alarms then?

The Democrats are like a wife who is a whore playing around on her spouse and then accuses him of doing the same, lol.

[Why_Yes_I_Do]

Cornay is just a pawn, but most importantly; a stepping stone to the bigger items that really matter.

But first:
A gentlemanly hat tip to George Santayana, who wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" <-- Frankly, I'm glad the Dems know nothing about this blind spot of theirs.

Thankfully, the Dems stealing the election in 2020 is actually working out for us. As you may recall, TRUMP was a political neophyte in 2016-2017, elected into a festering swamp of nepotistic and self-enriching swamp of critters.
A total Who's Who of corrupt Politburo players.

On top of that, the Dems unleashed untold cannons of Lawfare, while still shielding their many swamp monsters. It started even before the 2016 election with Hillary Clinton and finished the year with a basement meeting of the White House, driven by O'Bama, et al. Thusly creating the Muh Russia, Russia, Russia tales from the crypt for the next several years.

The lawfare careened throughout the swamp for years, at great expense to the tax payers and, of course, Trump.

Anyone recollect this item? He got 4 years for it.

Ex-FBI agent Charles McGonigal sentenced for helping Russian oligarch
14 December 2023 Madeline HalpertBBC News, New York

A former top FBI agent has been sentenced to over four years in prison for helping a Russian oligarch spy on a rival.

Charles McGonigal, 55, pleaded guilty in August to one count of conspiring to launder money.

McGonigal is one of the highest-ranking FBI agents to ever be charged with a crime.

He is also accused of hiding $225,000 (£176,000) in payments from an Albanian agent while still working for the FBI.

Prosecutors had asked for five years in prison.

Before his sentence was handed down on Thursday in New York, McGonigal expressed regret over his actions.

"I committed a felony and as a former FBI special agent it causes me extreme emotional and physical pain," he told Judge Jennifer Rearden, according to ABC News. "I stand before you today with a deep sense of remorse."

Ms Rearden said McGonigal had made "extraordinary contributions" through his counter-espionage work, but called his crimes "extraordinarily serious".

McGonigal was the special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York before retiring in 2018. In that role, he was tasked with investigating Russian oligarchs.

Prosecutors say he and former Russian diplomat Sergey Shestakov violated US sanctions by agreeing to provide services to Russian billionaire and industrialist Oleg Deripaska.

The US sanctioned Mr Deripaska in 2018 after accusing him and several other Russian oligarchs and officials of "malign activity around the globe".

Prosecutors alleged the two men agreed to help Mr Deripaska get his sanctions removed. They also promised to investigate a rival oligarch, Vladimir Potanin.

US charges ex-FBI agent with violating Russia sanctions
The men and an associate of Mr Deripaska allegedly used shell companies to send and receive payments from Mr Deripaska.

In August, McGonigal admitted to a judge that he had investigated Mr Potanin in an effort to add him to the sanctions list.

He told the court he was "deeply remorseful" for his actions.

"I take full responsibility and never intended to hurt the US, FBI or my family," he said, according to local New York outlets.

After being arrested in January, the ex-FBI agent had initially pleaded not guilty before later reversing his plea.

In court filings, prosecutors said McGonigal "abused the skills and influence his country entrusted him with by secretly working for the very threats he had previously protected it against".

"No one knew better the gravity of McGonigal's crimes than McGonigal himself," they wrote...

As it relates to Comey; He ain't the first, nor the last (I hope, I hope)

However, DJT 47 is not going to lower himself to underhanded lawfare, like they did in NY by creating a temporary law to extend the Statute of Limitations - just to charge Trump. Trump prefers to do the battles in the open, so that everyone has a chance to see it all, if their media sources permit, that is. Thank goodness for Social Media and the death rattle of old guard media.

As it relates to Comey; Statute of Limitations were running out, so they had to act. As we now know, the EDVA is a festering snake pit, which is gumming up the works. You can read about it Here and Here. But Comey would make for two charged conspirators, just from the FBI. Can you say RICO?

BTW: The two "Heres" above are going to be sequestered in the case, as Comey's initial defense appears to be to throw the whole thing out because the EDVA is requesting more time - because it was so infested with swamp rats and they are having to bring in other personnel from elsewhere to get up to speed.

Will they able to beat the clock on Statute of Limitations? Realistically, not as cleanly as we might prefer. But RICO and Sedition don't have a time limit and anything that might come from the Cornay trial retains admissibility for other cases, i.e. half a loaf is better than no loaf. It might just be the whole loaf that sinks his boat and perhaps the 51 current and former intel agents and perhaps, all the way up the chain to the Don, i.e. ring leader - O'Bama.

There is one other stigma attached to Comey that many overlook:
Nobody likes a dirty cop.
They are the lowest of low lifes and overall the worst of the worst.

Stay tuned and keep your eyes on the prizes from this pinata.

[texassapper]

The hilarious thing is they really pulled out all ths stops... releasing COVID to push vote by mail to fraudulently steal the election.. and Trump came back and beat them anyway.

The leftists shot their wad and betrayed themselves to a larger audience in their zeal to get Trump. And he'd be gone by now if they had just shut up and America wouldn't have had to suffer through 4 years of Biden....

Its a good thing the leftists are so damn "smart"!!

[Why_Yes_I_Do]

Originally Posted by texassapper

...Its a good thing the leftists are so damn "smart"!!

As stated eloquently earlier:

Originally Posted by Mplay

...They wanted the smoke they are getting all the smoke.

But their evil plots and games seem to get them in the end.

[Precious_b]

Originally Posted by texassapper

Leftists calling this revenge and saying Trump is vindictive....

We tried to tell you... but you thought you could prevent him from ever seeing elected office again by pursuing this path.

Suck it.

So, you are saying maggies condone <insert adjective statement for abuse of goverment power>?

If not, why don't they demonstrate being the bigger guy in the room?
If so, why they crying so much about it?

Originally Posted by texassapper

Meh, Who cares what leftists think? I don't care if you call me a Nazi or the KKK, or even French. your insults don't work anymore. And if Americans have to get called Nazi to eliminate communists... well I will sleep just fine at night.

Round up the lefties, progs, and pANTIFAgs for "sight seeing" helo trips over the Gulf of America...

Uh, maggies do.
And i'd love someone to do a tally of these so called insults here in the PF for general members. We'll cut down on the pages of scrolling and not include those of the direct potus, current and former.

Originally Posted by Why_Yes_I_Do

Cornay is just a pawn, but most importantly; a stepping stone to the bigger items that really matter.

But first:
A gentlemanly hat tip to George Santayana, who wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" <-- Frankly, I'm glad the Dems know nothing about this blind spot of theirs.

Thankfully, the Dems stealing the election in 2020 is actually working out for us. As you may recall, TRUMP was a political neophyte in 2016-2017, elected into a festering swamp of nepotistic and self-enriching swamp of critters.
A total Who's Who of corrupt Politburo players.

On top of that, the Dems unleashed untold cannons of Lawfare, while still shielding their many swamp monsters. It started even before the 2016 election with Hillary Clinton and finished the year with a basement meeting of the White House, driven by O'Bama, et al. Thusly creating the Muh Russia, Russia, Russia tales from the crypt for the next several years.

The lawfare careened throughout the swamp for years, at great expense to the tax payers and, of course, Trump.

Anyone recollect this item? He got 4 years for it.
As it relates to Comey; He ain't the first, nor the last (I hope, I hope)

However, DJT 47 is not going to lower himself to underhanded lawfare, like they did in NY by creating a temporary law to extend the Statute of Limitations - just to charge Trump. Trump prefers to do the battles in the open, so that everyone has a chance to see it all, if their media sources permit, that is. Thank goodness for Social Media and the death rattle of old guard media.

As it relates to Comey; Statute of Limitations were running out, so they had to act. As we now know, the EDVA is a festering snake pit, which is gumming up the works. You can read about it Here and Here. But Comey would make for two charged conspirators, just from the FBI. Can you say RICO?

BTW: The two "Heres" above are going to be sequestered in the case, as Comey's initial defense appears to be to throw the whole thing out because the EDVA is requesting more time - because it was so infested with swamp rats and they are having to bring in other personnel from elsewhere to get up to speed.

Will they able to beat the clock on Statute of Limitations? Realistically, not as cleanly as we might prefer. But RICO and Sedition don't have a time limit and anything that might come from the Cornay trial retains admissibility for other cases, i.e. half a loaf is better than no loaf. It might just be the whole loaf that sinks his boat and perhaps the 51 current and former intel agents and perhaps, all the way up the chain to the Don, i.e. ring leader - O'Bama.

There is one other stigma attached to Comey that many overlook:
Nobody likes a dirty cop.
They are the lowest of low lifes and overall the worst of the worst.

Stay tuned and keep your eyes on the prizes from this pinata.

[Why_Yes_I_Do]

Looking like the Comey is trying a bit-o-Razzle-Dazzle-Lawfare by using a prosecution witness as his lawyer. End goal is to exclude evidence against his crimes.

DOJ accuses James Comey of hiring case witness as lawyer to keep evidence concealed
Defense counsel allegedly part of scheme to sneak government info to press
By Bob Unruh October 20, 2025

Prosecutors working on the obstruction and perjury charges pending against ex-FBI chief James Comey, indicted recently by a federal grand jury, are suggesting that Comey hired one of the lawyers working on his case in order to suppress evidence that lawyer might have.

It's because that lawyer, Patrick Fitzgerald, formerly a U.S. attorney in Chicago, may have taken part in the same 2017 media leaks that also involved Comey.

A report at the Washington Examiner said prosecutors are concerned over the "extraordinary" conflict of interest created by Comey's defense team.

There the defendant hired a potential witness against him to be on his defense team, "and help keep key evidence under wraps," the report said.

Prosecutors have informed U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff that Fitzgerald may need to be disqualified.

That would be "because of his alleged role in the same 2017 media leaks that underlie the government's case. Fitzgerald, they said, was involved in the 'improper disclosure of classified information' at Comey's direction shortly after President Donald Trump fired him from the bureau in 2017," the report said.

They asked the judge for a "filter protocol" that could be applied and allow a neutral team to review communications between Comey and others, including Fitzgerald, and decide whether it is evidence or not.

Prosecutors charged that Comey actually used Fitzgerald to "improperly disclose classified information."...

I expect it to end in typical Lawfare fashion from the Left Wing-nut crowd.

Saul Goodman

[texassapper]

Originally Posted by Precious_b

So, you are saying maggies condone <insert adjective statement for abuse of goverment power>?

If not, why don't they demonstrate being the bigger guy in the room?
If so, why they crying so much about it?

Why should we let the leftists abuse us without reply?

Fcuk that. The days of laying down the the left are done.

[txdot-guy]

Originally Posted by texassapper

Why should we let the leftists abuse us without reply?

Fcuk that. The days of laying down the the left are done.

Please feel free to expound on how exactly the “LEFT” is abusing you.

The idea that the left or the right is abusing anyone is simply absurd.

[Precious_b]

Originally Posted by Why_Yes_I_Do

Looking like the Comey is trying a bit-o-Razzle-Dazzle-Lawfare by using a prosecution witness as his lawyer. End goal is to exclude evidence against his crimes.
I expect it to end in typical Lawfare fashion from the Left Wing-nut crowd.

Saul Goodman

What is it called when donny does it? Never heard y'all refer to it like that.
Frankly, seems like a standard action. There is recorded incidents from across the aisle that reflect bad actions of repubs donny has ignored but going out of his way to go after comey and family. I'd like to see the whole thing play out. Waste of $$$$ but maggies don't care about that when they are spending the peoples dime.

Originally Posted by texassapper

Why should we let the leftists abuse us without reply?

Fcuk that. The days of laying down the the left are done.

Define "we". And it breaks one of the many broken campaign promises the Big Cheato made. But maggies only care about broken libby promises.

You never answered the question completely:
So, you are saying maggies condone <insert adjective statement for abuse of goverment power>?

If not, why don't they demonstrate being the bigger guy in the room?
If so, why they crying so much about it?"

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

Please feel free to expound on how exactly the “LEFT” is abusing you.

The idea that the left or the right is abusing anyone is simply absurd.

This should be good.

[Why_Yes_I_Do]

Originally Posted by Precious_b

What is it called when donny does it?...

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

Please feel free to expound on how exactly the “LEFT” is abusing you...

Might I first recommend "Crime and Punishment"? Trump has stated clearly his goals of "crushing" the perpetrators of the ridiculous BS lawfare, starting with Muh Russia, Russia, Russia.

In a nutshell, he wants to ensure that no other entities will ever have the timidity to abuse the levers of government to persecute their political enemies, simply because they had the audacity to win a fair election and reduce their power to that of a minority party.

As such, the penalties for it have to be both harsh and extreme to make a definitive deterrent from repeat occurrences. Like say having a corrupted government give Trump ~$230 million for the crimes committed against him (and all citizens), as well as locking up the bad cops and actors, by way of very public trials to shine a bright light in the kitchen.

Of course, there is also the classic "Art of the Deal". I suspect he might be willing to cut a deal with the major players, besides terminating the remaining partisan hacks, across the board.

Perhaps if the "Bigs" all plead guilty to Sedition, he may be willing to forgo hanging them in public or even incarcerating them, yet still strip them of all power, most of their fortunes, along with a lifetime ban in politics or some such.

Either way, the punishment has to be so severe that no one will even consider doing it in the future.

FWIW: This is what the majority of voters voted for.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[ICU 812]

If Comey is being accused of something he did not so, he will be acquitted . . .right?

Why would anyone doubt that?

[Precious_b]

Originally Posted by Why_Yes_I_Do

Might I first recommend "Crime and Punishment"? Trump has stated clearly his goals of "crushing" the perpetrators of the ridiculous BS lawfare, starting with Muh Russia, Russia, Russia.

In a nutshell, he wants to ensure that no other entities will ever have the timidity to abuse the levers of government to persecute their political enemies, simply because they had the audacity to win a fair election and reduce their power to that of a minority party.

As such, the penalties for it have to be both harsh and extreme to make a definitive deterrent from repeat occurrences. Like say having a corrupted government give Trump ~$230 million for the crimes committed against him (and all citizens), as well as locking up the bad cops and actors, by way of very public trials to shine a bright light in the kitchen.

Of course, there is also the classic "Art of the Deal". I suspect he might be willing to cut a deal with the major players, besides terminating the remaining partisan hacks, across the board.

Perhaps if the "Bigs" all plead guilty to Sedition, he may be willing to forgo hanging them in public or even incarcerating them, yet still strip them of all power, most of their fortunes, along with a lifetime ban in politics or some such.

Either way, the punishment has to be so severe that no one will even consider doing it in the future.

FWIW: This is what the majority of voters voted for.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Ah. To rely on a rusky book about a poor guy. That don't quite jive with donny. That is unless it is being compared to his bankrupt ethics.

Too bad policy overrides law when it comes to a seated president. The findings of the Mueller Report are clear what should happen if that wasn't so.