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struggle4progress

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Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:28 PM Sep 25

James Comey responds [View all]

Sept. 25, 2025, 9:37 PM EDT
By Phil Helsel

... “My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. But we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way,” Comey said in a video on Instagram. “We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either.”

"My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system," Comey said. "And I’m innocent. So let’s have a trial."

A federal grand jury indicted Comey earlier Thursday on one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding stemming from testimony he gave to Congress in 2020.

Prosecutors allege that he lied to the Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, 2020, when he asserted that he did not authorize an FBI official to act as an anonymous source to the media ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/james-comey-responds-indictment-innocent-rcna233822

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