It's alarming that they obtained an indictment in the first place. We know the saying regarding the ham sandwich, but how could anyone even vote to indict on these facts? The charge will be dismissed, but this shouldn't even be an indictment to begin with. The aim is to vex and cause pain to Comey, and even though he is likely not worried, he still has to deal with this charge. I wonder how many Americans understand how deeply wrong this is.
where are the laws that can be used to disbar and impose severe penalty on the abuse of "vexatious lawsuits"? Besides, every one of the admin is close to severe abuse of violating the Constitution and lying - why are they not being impeached?
First, Comey was indicted by a grand jury. Second, Watts was just a citizen who was a soldier, not the head of the FBI... and organization with the connections and resources and power to easily carry out an assassination of the President.
Your moral equivalency arguments are so far off, they are almost humorous satire.
That's not why Watts' conviction was reversed. It was because his statement amounted to nothing more than crude political rhetoric. If he had expressed a serious intent to kill President Johnson, his conviction would have stood, regardless of how feasible it would have been for him to carry it out.
Likewise, even granting your highly questionable premise that a *former* FBI director could easily arrange the president's death, having the means to carry out violence doesn't mean that someone actually threatened to do so. There's nothing in the indictment to suggest that Comey's post, using a slogan commonly used to call for the president's removal from office or to simply signal opposition to him, communicated a genuine intent to personally kill him.
This isn't good persuasion stuff. At the very least I would expect an honest and objective journalist to acknowledge the difference. You and your ilk persecute Trump for every utterance even making up fantastic explanation of his meaning and intent of words taken significantly out of context and cherry-picked from a complete speech. The lie about "fine people" was bad enough, but now it is one of your Democrat campaign non-profits (SPLC) that paid for the KKK to attend. Trump says go march peacefully, and yet you and your ilk continue to demand he go to prison as a traitor for organizing and motivating an insurrection... ignoring that the claim and the definition of the word don't line up at all.
With clear explosion in leftist violence including assassination culture and polls showing that your political tribe support it, someone that worked at the head of the FBI even INFERRING that the President should be assassinated should be locked up if only to send a message to all you that it will no longer be tolerated.
Watt's was a flippant remark in a conversation with another. Comey was clear to broadcast his dream of Trump assassination to the world.
The lack of acknowledgement for the difference related to Comey's professional roles is enough to discount your entire credibility to write about this. There is no counter thought. You are just taking an ideological left view that is void of objectivity. And your assassination culture needs to stop immediately. Comey is a perfect target to get the ball rolling on that.
In May of 2025, Comey, of course, was no longer head of the FBI and hadn't been for 8 years, but was a citizen with a long record of service to our country.
It's alarming that they obtained an indictment in the first place. We know the saying regarding the ham sandwich, but how could anyone even vote to indict on these facts? The charge will be dismissed, but this shouldn't even be an indictment to begin with. The aim is to vex and cause pain to Comey, and even though he is likely not worried, he still has to deal with this charge. I wonder how many Americans understand how deeply wrong this is.
where are the laws that can be used to disbar and impose severe penalty on the abuse of "vexatious lawsuits"? Besides, every one of the admin is close to severe abuse of violating the Constitution and lying - why are they not being impeached?
Trump and his supporters can (and constantly do) dish it out, but how dare they have to take it.
First, Comey was indicted by a grand jury. Second, Watts was just a citizen who was a soldier, not the head of the FBI... and organization with the connections and resources and power to easily carry out an assassination of the President.
Your moral equivalency arguments are so far off, they are almost humorous satire.
That's not why Watts' conviction was reversed. It was because his statement amounted to nothing more than crude political rhetoric. If he had expressed a serious intent to kill President Johnson, his conviction would have stood, regardless of how feasible it would have been for him to carry it out.
Likewise, even granting your highly questionable premise that a *former* FBI director could easily arrange the president's death, having the means to carry out violence doesn't mean that someone actually threatened to do so. There's nothing in the indictment to suggest that Comey's post, using a slogan commonly used to call for the president's removal from office or to simply signal opposition to him, communicated a genuine intent to personally kill him.
Please, don't waste your energy on convincing Frank Lee of anything. He lurks around Persuasion so he can "own some libs" when he can.
This isn't good persuasion stuff. At the very least I would expect an honest and objective journalist to acknowledge the difference. You and your ilk persecute Trump for every utterance even making up fantastic explanation of his meaning and intent of words taken significantly out of context and cherry-picked from a complete speech. The lie about "fine people" was bad enough, but now it is one of your Democrat campaign non-profits (SPLC) that paid for the KKK to attend. Trump says go march peacefully, and yet you and your ilk continue to demand he go to prison as a traitor for organizing and motivating an insurrection... ignoring that the claim and the definition of the word don't line up at all.
With clear explosion in leftist violence including assassination culture and polls showing that your political tribe support it, someone that worked at the head of the FBI even INFERRING that the President should be assassinated should be locked up if only to send a message to all you that it will no longer be tolerated.
Watt's was a flippant remark in a conversation with another. Comey was clear to broadcast his dream of Trump assassination to the world.
The lack of acknowledgement for the difference related to Comey's professional roles is enough to discount your entire credibility to write about this. There is no counter thought. You are just taking an ideological left view that is void of objectivity. And your assassination culture needs to stop immediately. Comey is a perfect target to get the ball rolling on that.
In May of 2025, Comey, of course, was no longer head of the FBI and hadn't been for 8 years, but was a citizen with a long record of service to our country.
Clearly those spook connections last longer than the career. He hired many of the people still working in the FBI.