{"id":2491391,"date":"2025-09-26T07:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-perfecters-of-weaponized-justice-decry-comey-indictment\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:35:12","slug":"dems-perfecters-of-weaponized-justice-decry-comey-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-perfecters-of-weaponized-justice-decry-comey-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems, Perfecters Of Weaponized Justice, Decry Comey Indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fdems-perfecters-of-weaponized-justice-decry-comey-indictment%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=2491391&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>The article discusses the recent indictment of former FBI director James Comey on charges of lying to and obstructing the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020. Critics, especially Democrats like Representative Jamie Raskin, condemned the indictment as politically motivated retaliation by former President Donald Trump. The piece highlights the perceived hypocrisy of Raskin, who supported similar legal actions against Trump and his allies.It also outlines the extensive legal efforts and expenses involved in prosecuting Trump, portraying them as part of a broader Democratic campaign to undermine him. The article references other politically charged cases, such as New York Attorney General Letitia James&#8217;s lawsuit against Trump and statements from figures like Senators Adam Schiff and Mark Warner accusing Trump of weaponizing the justice system. FBI Director Kash Patel emphasizes accountability and confronting corruption within law enforcement. The author concludes by noting Trump&#8217;s own statements insisting that he has been unfairly targeted with multiple impeachments and indictments, calling for justice.  <\/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<div>\n<p>Looks like deep state creep James Comey will have to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/19\/comey-tried-to-86-trumps-first-term-with-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;86&rdquo;<\/a> some of his plans in the coming months after being <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/25\/russia-hoax-conspirator-james-comey-indicted-for-obstruction-lying-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicted<\/a> on charges of lying to and obstructing the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An injustice! Democrats cried. Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats-judiciary.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/release-ranking-member-raskin-s-statement-on-trump-s-doj-filing-criminal-charges-against-former-fbi-director-james-comey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> that Comey&rsquo;s indictment is part of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;wrath and vengeance campaign.&rdquo; The Maryland leftist, of course, was all-in on the Biden administration&rsquo;s vengeance campaign against his presidential predecessor and his supporters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Raskin said something remarkably hypocritcal, even for him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s confident that a jury of Comey&rsquo;s peers will see past the Trump hater&rsquo;s trouble with the truth and &ldquo;vindicate&rdquo; the disgraced former FBI head. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But, until that happens, Mr. Comey will be forced to spend time, money, and energy defending himself against this blatantly fraudulent and vindictive indictment,&rdquo; he said Thursday evening in a <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats-judiciary.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/release-ranking-member-raskin-s-statement-on-trump-s-doj-filing-criminal-charges-against-former-fbi-director-james-comey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wow! That&rsquo;s rich.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Unprecedented Legal Action&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Raskin and his Trump Derangement Syndrome-suffering colleagues rejoiced in the time, energy and money &mdash; lots of money &mdash; the president and his campaign spent in fighting &ldquo;blatantly fraudulent and vindictive&rdquo; indictments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In just a two-year period, Trump, his campaign and other fundraising organizations, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-spent-millions-legal-fees-2024-presidential-campaign-3384cbfc2df69d3e97ba9e47c2384312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> the Associated Press, were forced to pay out $76.7 million in legal fees to defend the then-former president and Republican Party presidential candidate from the most expensive and nation-rending lawfare campaign in the nation&rsquo;s history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As should be abundantly clear to even the most dim-witted liberal, the Democrat Party, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/19\/118-house-democrats-refuse-to-vote-for-resolution-condemning-charlie-kirks-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">party for today&rsquo;s political assassin<\/a>, stopped at literally nothing to take out Trump. The Biden administration and its leftist prosecutorial pals in New York and Georgia and Arizona and Wisconsin and several other states turned the administration of justice into a political gun &mdash; used liberally against Trump and his defenders. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And Comey, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/08\/01\/doj-ig-referred-james-comey-criminal-prosecution-leaking-classified-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the FBI&rsquo;s leaker-in-chief<\/a>, played a role in the weaponization of justice as Trump was opening his first term. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As if the previous four years had magically never happened, Politico described Comey&rsquo;s indictment an &ldquo;unprecedented legal action.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New York Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/21\/new-york-case-against-trump-was-always-a-ridiculous-pretext-to-take-down-his-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letitia James<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickscott.senate.gov\/2023\/10\/sen-rick-scott-letitia-james-target-on-trump-is-gross-politics-not-pursuit-of-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaigned on getting Trump<\/a>, used a kangaroo court to prosecute her party&rsquo;s top political enemy in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-come-the-hypocrites-of-the-week\/\" title=\"Here Come The Hypocrites Of The Week\">bogus civil fraud case<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/stefanik-files-ethics-complaint-judge-engoron-trump-trial-rcna124554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">politically conflicted<\/a> judge presiding over the trial levied a half-billion fine against the Trump Organization. A New York appellate court <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/21\/court-finds-ny-judgment-against-trump-unconstitutional-throws-out-515m-penalty\/\">ruled<\/a> the fine was excessive and unconstitutional and tossed the penalty altogether.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The immense penalty in this case is troubling,&rdquo; Justice Peter Moulton <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/27\/ny-judges-scrutinize-troubling-450-million-penalty-in-trump-fraud-case-no-one-lost-any-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> during last year&rsquo;s oral arguments. &ldquo;How do you tether the amount that was assessed by the Supreme Court to the harm that was caused here where parties left these transactions happy &hellip; ?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Punishing and Silencing&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/17\/three-russia-hoax-bombshells-hidden-in-ig-report-on-doj-surveillance-of-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russia collusion hoaxer<\/a>, California Sen. Adam Schiff, who has his own <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/20\/yes-adam-schiff-can-be-prosecuted-for-deliberately-leaking-classified-information-to-hurt-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaking problems<\/a>, audaciously declared that the DOJ &ldquo;is now little more than an arm of the president&rsquo;s retribution campaign.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mark R. Warner, a Virginia Democrat and Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a statement that Trump &ldquo;has made clear that he intends to turn our justice system into a weapon for punishing and silencing his critics.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, of course, actually did try to silence their political opponent by unconstitutionally kicking Trump off the Republican primary ballot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who has also had his own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/new-yorker-suspends-jeffrey-toobin-for-zoom-dick-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaking problems<\/a>, insists that the merits of the ridiculously political federal indictments against Trump &ldquo;are very different from this extremely thin indictment that&rsquo;s presented against Jim Comey, the facts of which, at least as far as I&rsquo;m aware, are going to be very hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ll see.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And before liberals begin to cry about how much it will cost the American taxpayer to prosecute the former FBI director (because Democrats are sticklers for saving taxpayer dollars), they should remember that we&rsquo;ve seen this move before. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/jack-smith-donald-trump-indictments-election-fraud-classified-documents-inauguration-january-1982754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to<\/a> a Newsweek review, taxpayers were on the hook for at least $50 million that special counsel Jack Smith&rsquo;s office spent in his failed prosecution of Donald Trump via the Biden administration&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/event\/118th-congress\/house-event\/115294\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weaponized Department of Justice<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FBI Director Kash Patel said, as Comey and plenty of Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/burlison.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/burlison-statement-indictment-former-fbi-director-james-comey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have said<\/a> of Trump, &ldquo;No one is above the law.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, your FBI took another step in its promise of full accountability,&rdquo;&nbsp; Patel wrote on X. &nbsp;&ldquo;For far too long, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >corrupt leadership weaponized federal law enforcement<\/a>, damaging once proud institutions and eroding public trust. Under my leadership, this FBI will confront the problem head-on. No one is above the law.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, your FBI took another step in its promise of full accountability. For far too long, previous corrupt leadership and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-comey-indicted-for-obstruction-lying-to-congress\/\" title=\"James ... Indicted For Obstruction, Lying To Congress\">enablers weaponized federal law enforcement<\/a>, damaging once proud institutions and severely eroding public trust. Every day, we continue the fight to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FBIDirectorKash\/status\/1971347212811763992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>If you are scoring along at home, Trump brought the receipts in a recent post on Truth Social.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"... Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top ... Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comey faces setbacks after 2020 Senate indictment; Dems protest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2491392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-26-at-12.44.02-AM-1024x574.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[64099,3933,33178,43116,64098],"class_list":["post-2491391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-comey-indictment","tag-dems","tag-justice-system","tag-political-bias","tag-weaponized-justice"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-26-at-12.44.02-AM-1024x574.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491391","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491395,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491391\/revisions\/2491395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}