Former FBI Director James Comey was charged Thursday with lying to Congress and blocking justice. This is a major step in President Donald Trump’s push to go after his political enemies. The charges come from what Comey said during a September 2020 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The charges came just days after Trump publicly pushed Attorney General Pam Bondi to bring charges against Comey and other people he sees as enemies. Trump picked Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide and former personal attorney with no experience as a prosecutor, to lead the case. This happened after the previous US attorney Erik Siebert quit under pressure because he had concerns about weak evidence.
