(Washington) One of Donald Trump’s black beasts, the former FBI director James Comey, was charged Thursday to hinder justice, a decision immediately praised by the American president, whose pressures targeting political opponents are starting to bear fruit.
“Today, a great federal jury (a committee of citizens invested with investigation powers) charged the former FBI director, James Comey, serious offenses linked to the disclosure of sensitive information,” the justice department said in a statement.
“Justice in America! “Haded Donald Trump on his social social network, describing the former federal police chief, 64, as” one of the worst human beings that this country has known “.
Image taken from Donald Trump’s social social account
Since the return to power in January of Donald Trump, after a campaign where he had sworn to take revenge on his political opponents, the American authorities have launched several procedures against personalities considered hostile to the Republican or involved in his judicial setbacks, including James Comey and the former CIA director John Brennan.
The American president had put pressure this weekend in the Department of Justice this weekend so that he pursues those who put sticks on him in the wheels, increasing fears of the Democratic opposition on a risk of questioning the separation of powers.
In July, the Republican leader had already suggested that James Comey, like John Brennan, may have to account.
“They are two very dishonest people. I think these are finished craples and maybe they will have to pay the price, “said Donald Trump, in response to a question of a journalist in the White House who asked him if he wanted to see the two men behind bars.
“Get things things”
During his first mandate, the Republican president had brutally dismissed James Comey in 2017 while the FBI was investigating possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The investigation was then entrusted to the special prosecutor Robert Mueller, his predecessor at the head of the FBI. In his report in 2019, the latter had concluded that the evidence of collusion between Moscow and Donald Trump’s team, but had raised a series of disturbing pressures exerted by the President on his investigation.
While his opponents accuse him of authoritarian drift, Donald Trump did not hide his impatience last weekend in the face of the delays in possible prosecution against two of his political opponents, the Californian senator Adam Schiff and the general prosecutor of the state of New York Letitia James, members of the Democratic Party.
They are accused by the manager of the Housing Financing Agency Bill Pulte, a relative of Donald Trump, of falsification of documents concerning requests for real estate loans.
Last week, the federal prosecutor Erik Siebert had resigned a few hours after Donald Trump publicly claimed his departure.
According to the American press, Erik Siebert had refused, for lack of sufficient evidence, to initiate prosecution against Letitia James, but also James Comey.
Since then, Donald Trump has appointed Lindsey Halligan, a White House advisor, replacing Erik Siebert, believing that the general prosecutor Pam Bondi had “needed a hard prosecutor” by his side “to make things happen”.
