Jen Psaki
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And I know all of them are going to have a lot to say because the news of Comey's indictment comes just days after President Trump said that the attorney general should prosecute his political enemies.
Now, as for the details of the charges, and some of you may have read this already, they are linked to testimony Comey gave virtually at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on September 30th, 2020, which is, of course, five years ago next Tuesday.
That's an important detail.
Now, today, Comey was charged with one count of making false statements and another count of obstruction.
Both counts are related to allegations that Comey lied to Congress, and those charges have a five-year statute of limitations, hence the rush by Trump and his lackeys to get this done before the five-year mark next Tuesday.
So today's indictment appears to have come really just in under the wire.
And that's kind of the point.
That's all the rush here.
That's all the craziness of the last week, and we're going to dig into all of that.
And Donald Trump is super happy about that.
Justice in America.
One of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former corrupt head of the FBI.
Today, he was indicted by a grand jury on two felony counts for various illegal and unlawful acts.
He has been so bad for a country for so long and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against Americans.
Our nation make America great again.
And I only read that because it's important to understand the absurdity of how he's approaching this and how much he has been saying the quiet part out loud about what he wants to happen here for not just the last week, but long before that.
Let me just back up for just a second, because we have no reason to believe Comey actually broke any laws here.
And we have no reason to believe that prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia have any evidence that suggests he did.
In fact, we have reason to believe the exact opposite.
I mean, today's charges were brought by the brand new U.S.