Well, this says something right here about stupidity and confidence. Today, Mr. Comey entered his official plea of not guilty. No surprise there. BUT, something else that a retired prosecutor found surprising is what followed that. Hope you enjoy this! From Raw Story:
Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty in a Virginia courtroom on Wednesday after being indicted by a federal grand jury on two charges: making a false statement to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. [Yes, we knew this, but we have to start properly.] And with a trial set for Jan. 5, 2026, former federal and state prosecutor Elie Honig detailed the “remarkable developments” in an interview with CNN. Honig said the speed with which this trial is set to occur is shocking.
H0, h0, h0. Dunno about you folks, but this writer thinks it means Comey has a couple of aces up his sleeve, not just one. It’s pretty certain that he requested a speedy trial – and got one. This should make Trump’s sorry excuse for a federal attorney have to scramble to get ready in time. No sympathy here.
She managed to get him charged, even though the grand jury wasn’t completely for it. That’s unusual in and of itself, or so it would seem. Now she has to prove it. Considering what the charges were, that’s going to take some effort. She’s going to need a LOT of assistance to get this ready in time. (And how many people in her staff will refuse to help?)
“I’m astonished at how quickly this is really going to go there,” Honig said. “Typical case takes 7 or 8 months. And here we’re talking about just under three.” Honig described the prediction that the trial will last two to three days as a “very interesting development.” “First of all, prosecutors — generally federal prosecutors — have a bad habit of overtrying their cases, of spending way too long, of putting in too much extraneous detail,” he explained. The judge, he added, is also expecting everyone on both sides to be prepared for a quick trial.
If the judge says quick, it had damn well better be quick. This is not Trump trying to delay his trials with anything and everything, although that would likely not have happened either. Kinda surprising how much he got away with that shizzle even before he became president (and Jack Smith said he WOULD HAVE secured a conviction on the insurrection). The government has no possibility of delay.
Mr. Comey obviously sees no need for this farce of a case to be delayed. Yes, he’s paying a lot of money to a Very Good, high-priced lawyer, but those aces are there that we don’t know about yet. There isn’t any other explanation for it. It will be great to watch them being pulled out one at a time. We probably won’t be able to watch since this is a federal court, but oh, to be the proverbial fly on the wall in that courtroom!
The judge, he added, is also expecting everyone on both sides to be prepared for a quick trial. “Everyone is going to be on point here,” he continued. “Prosecutors are going to turn over the documents. You have to you’re going to do it promptly. We’re not going to get sidetracked.” And while part of Trump’s strategy was to drag out and delay his trials, Comey is the antithesis, Honig said. “We talk about the speedy trial, right. That is a constitutional right that belongs to the defendant,” he explained. “Comey wants a speedy trial. Maybe that tells you something about his level of confidence.”
As mentioned previously in this column, yes, he is. One would think that the prosecutor would be a bit unsettled by this. It would be nice to know more about how legal things work. If nothing else, the right words would help. Possibly an educated guess about how this is going to happen. But Trump and co are going to have egg on their faces by the middle of January, and it will be awesome!
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Hard to feel sympathy for the man who broke standing rules to damage Hillary eleven days before the vote while not mentioning the investigation into Trump. He helped wheel this Trojan horse into the capital…screw him. Promote lies and injustice and you just might wind up in the crosshairs.
The bad guys were Jim Kallstrom, Rudy Giuliani, and of course Trump himself. Comey was not the bad guy in Hillary’s loss, he was the pawn and the fall guy. Everybody hted hi after that and them Trump fired him. (Strange if Comey won him the election, that he hated him so much and still does. Strange too if he won him the election that the first thing he did was refuse to be a yes-man for Trump. If Comey wants to, he can bust the whole “Russia, Russia” thing wide open again that Barr and John Durham tried to derail (and succeeded, even though they came up with no countervailing plot against Trump). It’s organically connected with present circumstances . because it shows that Trump’s been vindictive to Comey since 2016. Trump is the reason you and so many other people blame Comey, when he was put in an impossible situation by Trump, Giuliani and Kallstrom.
The question of whether agent Charles McGonigal was funneling Russian disinfo to the FBI is more complex.
I agree. I had a rather long reply typed out and then my fingers made my computer eat it so I can hope I remember it. Comey essentially was a victim the same way Hilary was. He was forced into the investigation and took the hit for it. I certainly would like to see him bust t”Russia, Russia, Russia” wide open. The Mueller Report (that’s some dense reading and I don’t know legalese) simply stated the facts. Mueller investigated the chance that Russia had spoofed circumstances, for lack of words, to help Trump win. He was not there to charge anyone, just to prove it was done. But he laid out everything in such a way that someone COULD bring up charges, but he left that to Congress. Well, we already know what happened. Trump won (good gods) and Hilary went down in flames when she should have won. Kinda reminds me of what Kamala went through. She should have won, too. But, back to Comey. Trump still hates him after all these years and THAT doesn’t make sense in any way. Ohhhh I’d love him to get his own back against Trump.
I am not sure who McGonigal is. I haven’t been doing this for very long.
Scott, I disagree. I think he was doing his job correctly and got forced into something. Sure, he didn’t like Hilary but we knew that from the get-go. He was forced to go after her shortly before the election, but there was never any “wrong” doing on her part because she had her own email server. I would guess she would have found someone to give her even MORE security than her “regular” server did. I don’t think she ever said why, but that would be my guess. Of course, that was awhile ago, so I could be wrong. I think Comey was forced into something. Either way he in no way did this on his own. That’s why I’m supporting him.
What really got Trump, Kallstrom, Giuliani et all furious at Comey was that he concluded there was nothing actionable against her, just sloppiness. It was noticeable because of the all the hyped up spin they were putting out about the e-mails. There was no substance to it, but it sounded bad and they made it sound a as bad as possible. So when the investigation ended with nothing to show, they didn’t want her let off the hook. When a few new e-mails were discovered (which turned out to be inconsequential), they went into action. That’s when they put the squeeze on Comey. He made the announcement that the e-mails were benign two days before the election, but it was too late. The GOP spin and the media echo chamber had done their job.
“She managed to get him charged, even though the grand jury wasn’t completely for it. That’s unusual in and of itself, or so it would seem. Now she has to prove it. Considering what the charges were, that’s going to take some effort. She’s going to need a LOT of assistance to get this ready in time. (And how many people in her staff will refuse to help?)”
Question: The government has been shut down for a week or so, now. *IF* a trial had already been started, then continuing it through the shutdown would make sense. But, at this point, NONE of the people who will be presenting Drumpf’s side (I’m not going to even pretend it’s the “government’s” side since we all know who’s behind this) should be considered “essential” personnel to be reporting to work.
There’s no reason to believe the shutdown’s going to last much longer but it SHOULD be keeping the prosecutor from getting their side in anything resembling ready for court.
And the Democrats should be screaming from the heavens that, if Drumpf can find money to pay for this witch hunt against Comey during the shutdown, then he can certainly get his lardness to the table and meet the Democrats’ demands (or, at the very least, save the ACA credits).