Tim Kaine

You follow the facts before you indict someone for a crime.

You do not indict them and say, well, now we got to go look for some facts.

Her statement shows this thing is a complete political hatchet job.

And I think it's going to blow up in the Trump administration's face because having practiced law in the Eastern District of Virginia for 17 years, I don't see any of the judges

in this district dignifying this political persecution in any way.

Well, it looks like there's motions to dismiss the case for malicious prosecution.

There may be some motion to dismiss it on the grounds that the U.S.

attorney who is pursuing this is not lawfully in place.

There's a statute that says when there's a vacancy, the DOJ can put an interim prosecutor in for 120 days.

That 120 days had passed.

And after 120 days, only the district court judges in a district can approve somebody to be the U.S.

attorney.

An article in the National Review, hardly a liberal publication earlier this week, said you can't put a new interim in to do your bidding once the 120-day period has passed.

So I think the Comey attorneys have an awful lot of grounds to get this thing thrown out.

Look, I've had major differences in the past with Jim Comey that I don't want to really get into.

But the guy's entitled to the rule of law.

He's entitled to fairness.

He's entitled not to be victimized by a clearly trumped up political persecution.

And so I'm going to do everything I can as the senator for this state to make sure that Donald Trump doesn't pervert our two U.S.

attorney's offices publicly.