{"id":2250328,"date":"2024-05-22T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comey-attacks-trump-says-hes-coming-for-fbi-doj-if-elected\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:32:28","slug":"comey-attacks-trump-says-hes-coming-for-fbi-doj-if-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comey-attacks-trump-says-hes-coming-for-fbi-doj-if-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"Comey Criticizes Trump, Warns of Changes to FBI and DOJ if Elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcomey-attacks-trump-says-hes-coming-for-fbi-doj-if-elected%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2250328&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former FBI Director James Comey criticized ex-President Donald Trump on MSNBC, warning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-he-would-consider-banning-tiktok-if-he-is-elected-president\/\" title=\"DeSantis open to banning TikTok as president.\">potential \u2063threats<\/a> \u200bto the FBI and \u2063DOJ under a Trump presidency. Comey expressed concerns about Trump&#8217;s intentions towards these institutions, emphasizing the need for active participation in\u200b elections to safeguard democratic values. Comey urged\u200c citizens to vote, emphasizing the \u2062critical implications of the election outcome.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ypok2ieLEWk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaking<\/a> on MSNBC, former FBI Director James Comey attacked former President Donald Trump, saying that the FBI and Justice Department would be in danger if Trump is elected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comey said that in the current Trump court case \u201cthe rule of law in this country, especially the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/have-the-courts-been-compromised-too-where-are-the-righteous-judges-supreme-court-slows-president-trumps-pa-case\/\" title=\"Have the Courts Been Compromised Too?  Where are the Righteous Judges?  Supreme Court Slows President Trump\u2019s PA Case!\">court system<\/a>, has passed its stress test, slow on the federal side, but this is a great example for our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou say it\u2019s passed its stress test,\u201d MSNBC host Alex Wagner stated. \u201cAre you concerned that it may get a test unlike any other if Donald Trump is re-elected? I mean, when you think about a second Trump administration, what do you think the implications would be for the FBI?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSerious,\u201d Comey answered. \u201cFor the Justice Department and the FBI, because Trump is coming for those institutions. He knows their power and I think he has regrets that he didn\u2019t work hard enough to corrupt them last time. So he\u2019s coming for them and that\u2019s a danger for all Americans. He\u2019s gonna put people in positions in those organizations. He didn\u2019t have All-Stars last time; he\u2019ll have the bottom of the barrel this time \u2026 people who will want to do his will and that should worry every American. This election matters because of a reason like that. \u201c<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comey then turned to his election pitch: \u201cPeople have to participate. You cannot sit on the sidelines. I don\u2019t care how you feel about Joe Biden, you must vote for him because the consequences on the other side are too severe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In June 2018, ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/doj-watchdog-finds-comey-defied-authority-fbi-director\/story?id=55670834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the Justice Department\u2019s internal watchdog, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, concluded that when Comey served as FBI Director, he defied authority. A source informed ABC News that the draft report explicitly used the word \u201cinsubordinate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated this investigation, following a referral from the FBI, after the FBI determined that Comey may have shared memos that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-73976-ballots-released-by-maricopa-county-56-1-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"BREAKING: 73,976 Ballots Released By Maricopa County \u2014 56.1% FOR DONALD TRUMP\">contained classified information<\/a> with individuals outside the FBI,\u201d the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.justice.gov\/press\/2019\/2019-08-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a>, adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>The OIG determined that Comey violated applicable policies and his FBI Employment Agreement by providing one of the unclassified memos that contained official FBI information, including sensitive investigative information, to his friend with instructions for the friend to share the contents of the memo with a reporter. Additionally, the OIG determined that Comey, while FBI Director, kept copies of four of the seven memos in a personal safe at his home and, after his removal as FBI Director, violated FBI policies and his FBI Employment Agreement by failing to notify the FBI that he had retained them, or to seek authorization to retain them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Comey likewise violated applicable policies and his FBI Employment Agreement by providing copies, following his removal as FBI Director, of the four memos he had kept in his home to his three private attorneys without FBI authorization. Comey also failed to fulfill his obligation to immediately alert the FBI about his disclosures to his private attorneys once he became aware that the FBI, after Comey\u2019s removal, had determined that one of the memos included several words, the names of foreign countries being discussed by the President, that were classified at the CONFIDENTIAL level.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former FBI Director James Comey, in a MSNBC appearance, criticized ex-President Donald Trump, cautioning that the FBI and Justice Department could face jeopardy under a potential Trump administration. Comey expressed concerns over the current legal proceedings involving Trump, highlighting the strain on the rule of law and the judiciary system in the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2250329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2020\/09\/GettyImages-1203012366-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2020\/09\/GettyImages-1203012366-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}