Friday’s speech by President Donald Trump at the Department of Justice was part victory lap, part apology to the American people about the abuses waged by prior administrations and the work required to return the department to one of integrity and trust.
Trump said,
But first we must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls. Unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations. They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart the will of the American people.
Trump made a further promise to expose the rogue actors in government and to “restore the scales of justice in America. And we will ensure that such abuses will never happen again in our country.”
Trump reiterated the litany of executive actions and firings he has instituted to see this happen; in particular, the removal of “senior FBI officials who misdirected resources to send SWAT teams after grandmothers and J6 hostages.”
Trump then pivoted to one particular rogue actor: former FBI director James Comey. Trump fired Comey during his first term in office in 2017. In 2021, before Trump left office, a draft letter was leaked to ABC News from sources close to the Mueller investigation, alleging that Trump had written this initial letter to Comey, but it had never been sent. In the alleged draft, Trump condemned Comey’s behavior, saying,
“Your conduct has grown unpredictable and even erratic – including rambling and self-indulgent public performances that have baffled experts, citizens and law enforcement professionals alike – making it impossible for you to effectively lead this agency,” Trump wrote to Comey.
The letter then chastised Comey for “spen[ding] too much time cultivating a public image, and not enough time getting your own house in order.”
While at that time Trump did not comment on this draft letter leak, the balance of the last four years, and Comey’s dining out on his “Trump resistance,” only corroborates this language. From a stance of victory, as the 47th President of the United States, Trump chose to comment once again on his decision to fire Comey, saying it, “a great honor.”
It was a great honor for me to fire, I will tell you this, a great honor to fire James Comey. A great, great honor. That was nothing, there was no better day. A lot of people said, “Oh, that’s too bad you did that.” And they said, that’s gonna be… and you know what? A year later they said, that actually saved the administration. Because the level of corrupt things that we learned after that turned out to be, they were doing in fact, really bad things.
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President Trump: “It was a great honor to fire James Comey.” pic.twitter.com/QLQWe8KTIc
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Let us hope that Attorney General Pam Bondi will expose to what depths Comey stooped. No doubt, it was his fingerprints on the setup and establishment of those misused resources that targeted innocent Americans, rather than actual criminals.
He was a terrible person, Trump concluded. He did terrible things, and persecuted people, all under the guise of being an angel, but he wasn’t an angel.
Indeed. It was announced in February that the FBI had opened an investigation into the decades-old origins of the plot to infiltrate Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign using two female undercover “honeypot” agents. Which rogue actor at the FBI chose to launch this? None other than James Comey. Patience will be required before perp walks, but in due time, we will begin to see Deep State corruptocrats like James Comey pay a price for their crimes.
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