What do you know about accusing the former FBI director

On Thursday (September 25), officials accused James Kumi With lying to Congress. This criminal case comes after days President Donald Trump It appears to be the prosecutor to the prosecutor of the former FBI director and other alleged political enemies.

Let’s disintegrate what it is Really happens What will happen most likely.

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Context before the charges

President Kumi was devoted to a post on social media last Saturday. AG PAM BONDI urged his shipment, and complains about the Ministry of Justice’s lack of charges against his opponents. “We cannot delay for a longer period, it kills our reputation and credibility,” Trump wrote, in reference to the fact that he was accused and isolated several times.

Then, the eastern province office in Virginia took its step. The agency presented the case against Komei after a little internal chaos. Chief Public Prosecutor Eric Sepert He resigned on Friday. according to Associated PressHe pressed the accusation of other Trump’s goals, the New York Prosecutor, Leitia James, in achieving a mortgage fraud. Kumi or James was not accused. At Eric Separte, President Trump Lindsey Halligan nominated. Haligan is a White House assistant who was a Trump’s personal lawyer. It was not served before as a federal public prosecutor.

The new public prosecutor’s game, Haligan is still rushing to bring James Komei’s case to a major jury this week. She had until Tuesday to bring a case against him by claiming lying to Congress during a certificate on September 30, 2020. After that, the statute of limitations for five years had ended, making it impossible for the Ministry of Justice to accuse the former FBI director. Halligan pushed the indictment despite the fact that other prosecutors indicate anxiety in a note about its follow -up, for every AP.

What does James Come accuse?

In the end, James Comey was accused of two charges. However, the indictment does not deal with the Russian investigation article. Instead, the former director is accused of expressing a false statement to the Judicial Committee of the Senate and obstructing the actions of Congress.

Halligan argued that Komey lied when he said he had not authorized anyone else at the FBI to be an unknown source in news reports on a specific investigation. AP indicates that the indictment does not mention the investigation or its subject. However, it appears to indicate an investigation into the FBI for former foreign minister Hillary Clinton. In addition, the indictment claims that James Comey did “Seek spoiled to influence the obligatory and appropriate exercise” and obstruct and obstruct the appropriate and appropriate exercises “ By achieving the Senate.

In a video posted after being accused, Kumi said, “My heart is broken to the Ministry of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I am innocent. So let’s get a trial.”

Accusing Comey connected to the 2016 elections

James Comey was separated for months in Trump’s first management. Since then, he has been a major goal for Trump and his supporters who seek revenge on Russia’s achievement. For years, the president said that the investigation was a “trick” and “a charming chase.”

But Kumi is now the first former former government official to prosecute Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2016 election investigation. Multiple government reviews showed that Moscow, Russia, is interfering with the elections on behalf of the Republican campaign. These are the elections that gave Trump a victory over Hillary Clinton. As for the context, Robert Muller and prosecutors have not proven that Trump or his partners criminally colluded with Russia. However, they found that the Trump campaign welcomed the help of Moscow.

Donald Trump and his supporters interact with the indictment

Since James Comey’s accusation, Donald Trump’s reaction has been several times on social media. At approximately 7 pm Easter, President And invite her “Justice in America” On the social truth. He added that Kumi is “One of the worst human beings” The United States was exposed. Adding that the former director is the “former corrupt head of the Federal Investigation Office.”

Trump wrote on Thursday: “Today (James Comey) was accused by a major jury on charges of a felony for various illegal and illegal acts,” Trump wrote on Thursday. “It has been very bad for our country, for a long time, and he is now at the beginning of responsibility for his crimes against our nation. Make America great again!”

in The second social truth Early on Friday, Donald Trump continued to enter Kumi. He accused the former FBI director of being a false and dirty policeman.

“Whether you love James Come, or not, and I cannot imagine many people who love him, he has lied! It is not a complicated lie, it’s very simple, but it is very important. Positive, there was no doubt about what he said, or he was intended to say.

Trump also commented on the media about the indictment on Friday. Watch the video below.

Donald Trump says that James Comey’s accusation is just a tip of the iceberg … https://t.co/nzp7kxgpx7 pic.twitter.com/2is9q8lmiu

– TMZ (TMZ) September 26, 2025

AG PAM BONDI, a pro -Trump, and the FBI director Cash Patel, has issued a long critic of an investigation into Russia, similar statements. “No one is above the law,” Bondi said. Trump also comments

Trump and Come were beef!

A little night about James Comey. He was a senior official at the Ministry of Justice in the administration of Republican President George W. Bush. After that, Obama chose him to lead the FBI in 2013. Kome was a director when the office opened the investigation of Russia in the summer of 2016.

It is not surprising that James Comey’s relationship with Donald Trump was tense from the jump! Things worsened when Komei resisted Trump’s request at a special dinner for the White House to pledge to his personal loyalty. After refusing, the FBI director also documented the request in a memo. Trump was later launched James Comey in May 2017. Robert Muller later investigated the shooting in order to obstruct possible justice.

After leaving him, James Comey allowed a close friend to share what he wrote in a note classified with a correspondent. The memo has documented the request of an oval office from Donald Trump to close an investigation into the FBI in the first national security adviser, Michael Flynn. Trump and his allies later described Komei leak. In addition, the president accused him of treason. Come described himself as Trump as “his move” and likened him to a mafia.

The James Kumi family also feels heat!

Earlier this year, the FBI launched the daughter of Kumi, Mourin KumiIt is its job as a public prosecutor in the southern region of New York. A lawsuit has been filed since then. It claims that the termination was implemented without any explanation and political reasons.

Separately, Kumi melting, Toy EdwardsHe resigned as a federal public prosecutor in the eastern province of Virginia minutes after Kumi was accused. In a letter of resignation from one of the beauty addressed to Haligan, Edwards wrote that he left his job “To support the oath to the constitution and the country.”

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Associated Press Erik Taker, Alana Durkin Riccher and Michael Concerenal contributed to this report via AP NewsROOM.