Public opinion surrounding James Comey's indictment is polarized, with strong negative sentiment towards him among many comments that demand severe punishment, emphasizing the need for accountability in political corruption. However, there are also voices celebrating the indictment as overdue justice, yet expressing concerns over potential political motivations and fairness of the judicial process.

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Great time to remind everyone that the Comey memo may have given the 2016 election to Trump.

NHBikerHiker

Odd considering his work got trump elected the first time.

3holelovedoll

&gt; He has been charged with giving false statements and obstruction of justice, according to a source familiar.

&gt; The indictment Thursday evening comes as CNN previously reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi and other federal prosecutors have concerns about the case against Comey.

Says a lot that even Pam Bondi was not on board with the indictment. The article later states that Bondi had dinner at the White House with Trump last night, so I'm guessing he convinced her to go ahead...

Corruption in the open per his MO.

hoosakiwi

&gt; Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on X, “No one is above the law.”

Lmao.  Can this be used to override the shitty “memo” that says presidents can’t be indicted.

HelpMeOverHere

"No one is above the law." - Pam Bondi


"Except Trump"  - Supreme Court 

Ben_Thar

Oh wow the DoJ and Pam Bondi charged one of Trump's enemies after Trump accidentally posted what he thought was a DM to her in which he explicitly said she should be charging his enemies? I AM SO SHOCKED I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE MEDIA TO DO NINE HUNDRED OP EDS ASKING IF TRUMP WAS SOMEHOW INVOLVED DESPITE HIM LITERALLY HAVING POSTED INSTRUCTIONS TO HER ON TRUTH SOCIAL

Edit: I'm posting a link to the 'Truth' in question so people stop asking me for a link to it in comments and replies.

[https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1969532052488774100](https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1969532052488774100)

silverum

Totally a ploy.

Now the administration can call him a criminal for the next two years as it works it way through the court system. This will then be thrown out. Comey is nowhere near being a criminal.

The administration wants to put a scare in its enemies..and friends.

BigBlackHungGuy

To the Republicans in Congress, you allowed this to happen. You saw our president not only overstep and direct the DOJ himself, but openly threaten the Attorney General on social media by leaking their conversation. A conversation where he is openly ordering the prosecution of his political opponents.

You betrayed our country, your oath, your communities, and yourself. You all should be too embarrassed to call yourselves Americans. You are detached from reality if you think fake outrage over trans people and empty promises are going to be enough to win your elections. Another bill banning the 4 trans kids in the state from some activity isn't going to make up for the extra $80 the weekly grocery trip costs, or the extra $150 a month increase in health insurance, or the extra $40 a month on the electricity bill, or the countless other expenses that are increasing just like they did during COVID (maybe even worse).

You all had the privilege of serving the constituents who chose to cast their vote for you, putting trust in you to do what's in the interest of your people, not the interests of those who already have the entire world bending over backwards and breaking to be in their favor.

The people are paying attention. The Republicans and Trump have responsibility now, you all can't just put on a performance of empty promises and hateful glee while Biden and his competent administration does the real work of running the country.

Trump is going to ruin all of your careers as he uses and abuses our country as much as he possibly can for the rest of his miserable life. History will not be kind. Either do your fucking jobs or your choice to be cowards will be the legacy you leave.

MagicDragon212

"No one is above the law". There's a felon in the white house, charged and found guilty of 37 counts of fraud and other crimes. "No one is above the law"?

African-Child

Nothing to see here America.  Just political opponents being indicted and eventually jailed.

Omgaspider

Comey and Bolton now, Obama and Clinton next. The fascists always start with their political enemies within the party. It doesn’t end there.

Ok-Vegetable-8170

Indicted by a professional felon who paints himself orange. What a clown show.

CinnamonToastFecks

caferacer73

In case you forgot, this is payback for the 86 47 post on Instagram a few months ago

Actually_3_Raccoons

mr_greedee

infamous_merkin

Man who helps Trump win first election is rewarded with criminal indictment in his second election.  

  
How is it that people are still loyal to someone who shows zero loyalty to his servants?

reddurkel

Comey single-handedly got Trump elected in 2016, releasing a statement FOUR days before the election saying Hillary was once again under investigation.  

Trump literally owes his presidency to the guy.

PrestigiousSeat76

could be argued his misstep about talking about Hillary clinton inquiry is the reason Trump won the first time. 

funny how trump is attacking him now

biznash

If no one is above the law, how is Trump a free man?

Antique_Ad1518

New_Knowledge_5702

icanhascheeseberder

Excellent-Signal-129

And so begins the high profile political persecutions to cow the general public. 

PrestigiousQuack474

Real /r/leopardsatemyface 

He was the reason trump was elected in the first place, literally meddling in the 2016 election to discredit Hillary 2 days before the election with bogus investigations

JTibbs

I wonder what Comey thinks now, if he made the right decision in pulling his hare-brained move before the 2016 election. As he is a large proponent on Donald Trump becoming who he is today, I think this is an ironic reward for his stupidity.

KmvVoss

1) This is bullshit.
2) Fuck James Comey, his letter is probably what got Trump elected the first time. 

fredandlunchbox

Ah Comey... While I don't support what is happening to you, I remember your bullshit arguments during the 2016 election. You fucked this country. You absolutely fucked it. So while like I said I'm not going to actively support what you're going through, I just want you to know that you're basically domino one in a long line of people that have through their own hubris or incompetency have allowed us to reach this point. Without you Trump doesn't get his first term and the collective eight years of this madness is entirely avoided. I hope you ponder that thought while going through these proceedings. I hope you and those you love ponder it for a good long while.

Nepalus

Geez, its not like the guy accepted a $50k cash bribe.

Ok_Rabbit5158

We're going to get more and more of this, folks. Trump is going to show the US what actual weaponization of the government looks like. This why electing a criminal felon mob boss as POTUS is bad for the country.

CelestialFury

The guy that won Trump an election got indicted anyway

SandyMandy17

Remember that picture of Trump’s bathroom filled to the ceiling with classified documents?

GooglephonicStereo

"Accuse your enemies of that which you are guilty"

nunchucknorris

Bravo Republicans, really the party of law and order aren't you.

ffsnametaken

I bet Comey regrets fucking over Hilary all those years ago for Trump

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Y'know...normally I'd advise against this but Comey should *absolutely* exercise his right to a speedy trial.

brickyardjimmy

Remember when [Trump couldn’t touch the Bible when he was sworn in](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-bible-inauguration/)

Edit:  [article from Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-did-not-place-hand-bibles-during-2025-swearing-in)

already-redacted

What timeline would we be on if he didn’t spout off about Hilary’s emails

Old_Needleworker_865

I think this will be thrown out before it gets started.

TSHRED56

Literally what the fuck is going on

Edited: To clarify, this was a rhetorical question while I try to wrap my mind around the increasing absurdity unfolding daily.

Crafty_Movie_8623

🇺🇸 Bill of Rights – Pocket Summary

1. Free Speech &amp; Religion – Speak, worship, press, assemble, protest.  
2. Guns – Right to bear arms.  
3. No Quartering – No forced housing of soldiers.  
4. Searches – No searches without a warrant.  
5. Remain Silent – No self-incrimination, double jeopardy, or unfair taking.  
6. Speedy Trial – Fast, fair trial with a lawyer and witnesses.  
7. Jury in Civil Cases – Right to jury in money/property disputes.  
8. No Cruel Punishment – No torture, no extreme bail/fines.  
9. People’s Rights – You have more rights than what’s listed here.  
10. States’ Rights – Powers not given to the feds belong to states/people.

360Picture

Man I really don't like defending Comey but this indictment is bullshit.

Empty-Discount5936

I hate this timeline where I'm rooting for Comey, agreeing with Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz, and MTG seems like a normal human re: Epstein survivors. Sigh.

Bibblegead1412

This will backfire when it gets thrown out. Because it will show you can defy trump and be safe from consequences.

Spright91

Oh he's going to spill the beans on who asked him to open the Clinton investigation in 2016

jar1967

On the one hand, I hope this gets thrown out immediately, but on the other hand, I hope that they go into excruciating detail about the Russia investigation in what would surely be a very public trial.

BacteriaLick

Trump's goal is not to get convictions. He wants to bleed people financially.

GitmoGrrl1

..... i hate how we are using social media for public statements...

\*edit\* Response to the replies: I agree with everyone it is very efficent media of choice.  
  
 As an oldie,I hate that we have devolved into this madness. I wish I couldn't respond to his response, with an emoji. all these serious things, have become high school drama of people posting online. I miss my fucking nokia phone

A convicted felon wanting an ex-fbi director to go to jail when in reality Donald is the one that should be behind bars.

AdGreen7762

Comey was kept by Democratic and Republican presidents; this stands out as revenge for the thin-skinned baby tyrant.

Beneficial-Big-9915

Wonder how he feels about helping trump win in 2016. How did he not know that trump throws everybody under the bus eventually?

dragonfliesloveme

What? I thought the only response to a trial was to cry and stamp your feet and shoot how it's unfair and everyone involved should be killed.

DuntadaMan

Every citizen needs to turn out in the streets in support of Comey. I don't care for the guy, especially how his 2016 statement about Clinton  is directly responsible for Trump's election, but this is horseshit. Banana Republic levels of horseshit. DOJ is not Trump's private law firm. The POTUS doesn't get to determine what is justice. 

Sadly, if Americans won't turn out for our black and brown neighbors getting abducted off the streets, they probably won't turn out for this. And Trump knows this. 

What will it take? How much is enough? Nothing has been too much for 10 years. This is madness.

robot_pirate

I can’t forgive what Comey did to Hilary but I hope he wins this one.

CrackHeadRodeo

‘Member when this was all his fault to begin with?

Pepperidge farms (and Hillary) remembers.

Secret_Cow_5053

LOL DUDE. 

YOU MADE THIS HAPPEN YOU FUCKING TOOL.

Literally likely the one man that nudged just enough to tip the scales for Trump to be here today is because of this fucking tool.

Him and the FBI went fucking crazy holding Democrats to impossibly high standards to the point that Democrats were punished over lies. 

All while giving Republicans a pass to do whatever they wanted all the time constantly, then claim to do so to not look biased.

We're here in this situation because of the biased, political blunder his FBI carried out. 

Fucking hell what a stupid mess we're in. Dude is probably innocent but Republicans are going to scorch him and everyone that isn't totally loyal to Republicans from here on out and it's literally this man's fault.

bluelifesacrifice

Is there any chance that discovery could reveal damaging information about Trump?

exqueezemenow

While I agree this whole indictment is bullshit... I hope Comey realises that his own bullshit helped bring this on. The stunt he pulled a week before the election pushed alot of people away from voting for Clinton

AusToddles

Was kind of hoping for a mea culpa as well, since he is the main reason all this is happening

Panem-et-circenses25

If Trump gets asked to comment on this the chances he calls the prosecutor a beautiful young woman or some other slimey sexist thing is 99.999%

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Yet another sideshow. Trump will trot out the "radical left judge" when it (most likely) fails to stick.

I don't know how Bondi or any of those crooks can say "no one is above the law" with a straight face, only days after it was revealed they let Homan off the hook. And they are still badly failing at covering up the Epstein cover-up.

BandedKokopu

It’s an embarrassment to the administration and provides another example of DOJ’s degradation, which did not start with Trump but certainly has sped up because of him.

OpeningChipmunk1700

 If the rule of law and the 4th amendment mean anything, all of these high profile cases (even Luigi Mangiones) will be thrown out and picked apart as malicious prosecution.

Get off the fucking television.  Get off twitter.

BestJersey_WorstName

I don't see much a need for this. People lie to Congress all the time and they rarely if ever take action for it. I have no doubts that Comey lied but to chase after it this late in the game seems like a distraction.

GreatSoulLord

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It doesn't matter. Trumps 34 count felony convictions dont matter why should this.

Soft_Letterhead1940

First off, let's all take a trip down memory lane to 2016, when it was Democrats who wanted him ousted.  It really wasn't all that long ago.

Even then, Comey was a hack.  FBI agents, and certainly directors, aren't supposed to be publicity-seeking drama queens.  Comey loved being on TV and still does.  

But criminal prosecution?  Over this?  I think it's ridiculous.  Let history be the judge.  We don't need to waste the courts' time with this.

LonelyMachines

Indictments are one thing but I doubt he will be convicted of anything. Grand juries decide to indict more than they don’t and it has little correlation to outcome of jury trial. If he is guilty of a crime hopefully justice will be served.

0n0n0m0uz

It might be “deeply troubling” if the indictment came solely from someone at DOJ, but it was a grand jury. That’s what they’re for.

Holofernes_Head

As New York taught us all, the statue of limitations is meaningless.  🤷‍♂️

Wizbran

If he committed crimes he should face justice. No one is above the law.

kennykerberos

Dunce tried to game both Trump and Hillary in 2016. Veered Trump with the November surprise that in retrospect probably elected Trump, but when you play like a snake you get treated like one. He knew well Trump was gonna dumpster him when convenient but played the fool anyway.

threeriversbikeguy

No one is above the law.  Eastern District of Virginia isn't a Dem haven like DC but it's still very Dem, so the fact a grand jury did this says a lot.

tropic_gnome_hunter

I don't get the objections. Comey clearly, unequivocally, lied to Congress. Why shouldn't he be prosecuted for it?

MedvedTrader

Time to pay the piper. He was lied to by very corrupt politicians, intelligence and now they will all pay the piper. Comey will drag everyone down with him. This is amazing.

SnooFloofs1778

JoeCensored

Im very happy to see James comey get indicted. 

Grade a scumbag

marketMAWNster

The Russia collusion hoax is one of the greatest scandals in American history. I had almost given up hope on the idea that anyone would ever face justice for it. But this gives me a glimmer.

Let’s hope this indictment blows the gates off the hinges for future prosecutions.

NoTime4YourBullshit

No one is above the law. I don’t care who he was or what people in the DOJ think, if he committed the crime he should go to trial and suffer consequences.

boisefun8

Best I have felt in a while. Let's gooooooooo

Consequences are a biaatttch!

SuccessfulLock3590

Everyone who has paid any attention at all to current events over the past decade knows that Comey was and  is a bad actor causing much of the divisiveness we are now experiencing in our country.  As a result, no surprise whatsoever that he is finally going to get the scrutiny he deserves from this indictement.....

mrjcall

Its great, he wanted to ruin Trump and put him in jail to rot along with alot of other Dems. Its good to see the tables turned around for a change even if its mostly symbolic.

Regardless of what happens its absolutely a fact he lied, we have it on tape of him lying as well he can't refute it so if some leftwing judge protects him it doesn't matter because we know the truth

TyraelTrion

Comey admitted and laughed about his crimes.  He testified to things he knew were not true and laughed about it in interveiws. He laughed about the confusion at the FBI and Whitehouse and how sent agents in.

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Trump following the Putin playbook: weaponize the courts to jail your political opponents.

Trolkarlen

From Slate's Dahlia Lithwick:

Since Donald Trump’s rise to political power in this country, the famous poem cautioning that the horrors of autocracy would extend to the entire nation of Germany, Pastor Martin Niemöller’s “First They Came,” has gotten quite a bit of mileage in the United States. While meant to be a warning that brutality, cruelty, and lawlessness extended toward some would not end with those first targeted, there have always been a few problems with the Niemöller poem. On Thursday, when the Trump administration targeted former FBI Director James Comey for a political prosecution that wasn’t even pretending to be anything other than spurious and malicious—just two weeks after removing a critical comedian from the U.S. airwaves—at least some of the flaws in that Niemöller poem could be seen quite clearly.

We've removed the paywall, so you can read more here: [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/09/trump-news-why-jim-comey-got-indicted.html?utm\_source=google&amp;utm\_medium=cpc&amp;utm\_content=Trending\_News\_and\_Politics&amp;utm\_campaign=politics-traffic-dsa&amp;tpcc=google-cpc-politics-traffic-dsa-Trending\_News\_and\_Politics](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/09/trump-news-why-jim-comey-got-indicted.html?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_content=Trending_News_and_Politics&amp;utm_campaign=politics-traffic-dsa&amp;tpcc=google-cpc-politics-traffic-dsa-Trending_News_and_Politics)

Slate

What reaction? I fully expected this so it's a big "meh" from me, just pile it onto the pile of egregious acts of this corrupt administration

DrLophophora

Pale-and-Willing

My reaction was, "Huh, Comey and Trump finally have something in common, only Trump's count is still way ahead."

Tiny-Conversation-29

What is the reaction so far? Mine is fuck Comey. He knew all this shit and did nothing. Didn’t do anything when Trump shit all over the FBI. Didn’t do anything when he got fired over twitter. Didn’t do anything when his daughter got fired for no reason other than being his daughter. I’m done pretending these feds are going to have any sort of impact. He’s going to roll over like he always does. Fuck Comey. All my friends hate Comey.

Horror_Cake9074

Ok-Pair4547

While I agree this is interesting, the whole New York indictment on Trump and convictions were also weaponized politics. So this is nothing new and should now be expected. The left and the right are equally terrible.

Excellent-Rich-7093

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