"We will not live on our knees."

 

     So, James Comey has just been indicted, which, I suppose, makes him as guilty as a ham sandwich.

     It doesn't take a political or legal expert to see why Trump is essentially ordering the Justice Department to go after the former FBI Director. In the first months of Trump's first criminal junta administration, Not only would Comey not agree to let Michael Flynn off the hook for his own crimes (FARA, anyone?) but he was also the one who was heading the investigation into Trump's Manchurian Candidate arrangement with Russia.

     Well, as we all know, Trump's committed more crimes than Wrigley's has Skittles. And it's in the nature of mob bosses to go after those who investigate them, even after the fact. And we know Trump's pulling the strings, Earlier this month, he wrote,

     “We can’t delay any longer. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!! They have to act. They have to act fast.”

     Fact check: James Comey had nothing whatsoever to do with Trump getting impeached and indicted all those times. He'd just barely started an investigation into Trump's collusion with Russia during the 2016 election when Trump fired him on May 9, 2017 (the next day, he hosted two high-ranking Russian officials in the Oval Office after kicking out the western media).

     Now, why was Trump in such a hurry to indict Comey? Well, among the two charges they brought up, one was lying to Congress. Lying to Congress comes with a five year statute of limitations, meaning that Comey's 2020 testimony would've only been subject to an indictment until October 1st this year.

     Obviously, it didn't matter to Trump that a Justice Department Inspector General report concluded that Comey probably wasn't being untruthful to Congress (unlike the right wing ideologues and other assclowns that he's shoehorned into the government thanks to invertebrate Republicans).

     So Trump installed former cop Eric Siebert into the role of acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia as soon as he sleazed back into the Oval Office. Then Trump decided he wanted to indict Comey on vague and unsubstantiated charges.

     However, being an attorney with some scruples, Siebert looked into the matter and eventually saw there was no there there. So he declined to empanel a grand jury.

     Ketchup hit the walls at the White House and Trump decided Siebert had to go. In reality, Siebert left of his own accord, even though Trump screamed on social media (and, yes, he actually said this), "He didn't quit. I fired him!"

     Trump then installed yet another one of his countless morally compromised private attorneys, former beauty queen Lindsey Halligan, who's literally an insurance attorney who's never litigated a case in her life.

     And, like a true mob boss, Trump isn't satisfied with going after his perceived enemies- He has to go after their families, as well. Earlier this year, after right wing pseudo journalist Laura Loomer carped about her, Trump ordered the firing of James Comey's daughter, Maurene Comey, from her position at the powerful and infamously independent SDNY. Starting six years ago, Ms. Comey began handling the case against Jeffrey Epstein right after he was arrested in July 2019.

     But the Comeys are just the tip of the iceberg. The real issue is the separation of powers that's supposed to exist between the DOJ and the White House. The two buildings are separated by a lot of real estate and that's symbolic.

     As with the first time Trump was in the White House, he plainly looked at the DOJ as his private law firm, one that he fully expected to go after his enemies as well as quash investigations into his countless crimes and that of his corrupt cronies. Why should anything be different the second time around? That's why his mantra of Biden's Justice Department being weaponized rings ludicrously, considering he's giving marching orders to Pam Bondi and her US Attorneys. And if they don't give him what he wants, he fires them.

     And if the Democrats take back the House and Senate, next November, he's truly fucked and he'll be looking at, bare minimum, a third impeachment. Because right now, we're witnessing in real time the development of a scandal that will make Watergate look like a walk in the park, one that ties many of Trump's scandals together with a nice red bow, including the Epstein files.