After a good deal of will they, won’t they, the Department of Justice on Thursday, September 25, pulled two indictments out of a grand jury in Virginia for ex-FBI Director James Comey. The former fed now faces one count of false statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch and another for obstruction of congressional proceedings.
Will the charges stick? Days ago, the top federal prosecutor in Northern Virginia, Erik Siebert, cast doubt on the investigation, earning President Donald Trump’s ire. He quit – or was fired, depending on who you ask – and was replaced by Lindsey Halligan, who previously worked as a personal lawyer for the president. The nation held its breath as Americans waited to see if she would press for an indictment – and, if so, whether the grand jury would deliver. Well, she did. And on Thursday, they delivered.
James Comey was appointed by Barack Obama to lead the FBI in 2013 and confirmed by the Senate 93-1. It didn’t last. President Trump fired the director in 2017, and it didn’t take the Fourth Estate long to latch on to the narrative that it was for refusing to pledge loyalty to the new commander-in-chief.
Despite that admission, when former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told Congress that Comey had instructed him to leak the information to the media, the former director denied it repeatedly under oath. Fast forward to September of 2025. The DOJ was running out of time to charge Comey for lying to Congress on September 30, 2020, because the statute of limitations is five years. Had that particular charge not come by the end of the day Tuesday, September 30, it couldn’t have come at all.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, President Trump called Comey “a very corrupt person,” adding that “he was absolutely a terrible man for what this country stood for.”
US Attorney General Pam Bondi weighed in as well: “Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people,” she wrote on X. “We will follow the facts in this case.”
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“Today, your FBI took another step in its promise of full accountability,” FBI Director Kash Patel said, also on X. “Everyone, especially those in positions of power, will be held accountable – no matter their perch.”
James Comey, of course, maintains his innocence. “My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump,” he said in a video posted to Instagram. “But we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either.”
“My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal justice system,” Comey continued. “And I’m innocent. So let’s have a trial.”
Is he innocent? Perhaps, but he and Andrew McCabe can’t both be, as they each gave conflicting testimony under oath. One has to have been lying – and, as mentioned before, Comey is the one who admitted to at least as much as asking a friend to help leak documents.
In any case, it seems James Comey will get his wish: a trial. Whether he’ll come to regret it or not remains to be seen. The former FBI director will reportedly turn himself in this morning, Friday, September 26, and his arraignment is scheduled for 10 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, October 9. US District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, a 2021 Biden appointee and the newest judge in that particular court, was randomly assigned to the case Thursday evening. Win, lose, or draw, however, there’s no doubt of what the left’s narrative will be: Donald Trump wanted revenge, and he got it.