President Trump on Friday raged that newly indicted James Comey will have his case handled by a “Crooked Joe Biden appointed Judge” — insisting that the “dirty cop” ex-FBI director must pay “a very big price.”
Comey, 64, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday for allegedly lying to Congress in connection with the nearly decade-old Russiagate probe, with his case assigned to Biden-appointed District Judge Michael Nachmanoff.
“Whether you like Corrupt James Comey or not, and I can’t imagine too many people liking him, HE LIED! It is not a complex lie, it’s a very simple, but IMPORTANT one,” Trump seethed in an early Truth Social post.
“There is no way he can explain his way out of it. He is a Dirty Cop, and always has been, but he was just assigned a Crooked Joe Biden appointed Judge, so he’s off to a very good start.”
Trump was adamant Comey, who is accused of making the false statements during his Sept. 30, 2020 congressional testimony amid the Trump-Russia collusion investigation, would be held accountable.
“He left himself ZERO margin of error on a big and important answer to a question. He just got unexpectedly caught. James ‘Dirty Cop’ Comey was a destroyer of lives,” Trump said.
“He knew exactly what he was saying, and that it was a very serious and far reaching lie for which a very big price must be paid!”
The indictment against him hinges on an exchange he had with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during which he denied authorizing leaks to media outlets related to the probe.
Comey — who served as FBI director from 2013 until Trump fired him in 2017 — was expected to surrender early Friday.
In the wake of the indictment, Comey said his “heart is broken” for the Justice Department but stressed that he was “innocent.”
