De lange openbare campagne van Donald Trump om iemand in zijn administratie in te dienen om strafrechtelijke vervolging in te stellen tegen James Comey, de voormalige FBI -directeur die hij in 2017 ontsloeg, is uiteindelijk op donderdag geslaagd, maar de president is zo openbaar geweest over zijn afkeer van de aangeklaagde man, en zijn wens om hem gevangen te houden, dat het moeilijk zou kunnen zijn voor officieren van justitie om een jury te overtuigen die de zaak niet voor politieke reasons.
Comey was dismissed by Trump in 2017 after he reportedly refused a request to promise his loyalty to the newly elected president, and then publicly confirmed to the congress that the FBI carried out a counter -intelligence research of Russian efforts to help Trump elected in 2016.
However, Trump’s resignation of Comey has failed because it was the then deputy attorney -general -general Rod Rosenstein convincing To appoint a special counselorFormer FBI director Robert Mueller, to “supervise the previously confirmed FBI investigation into Russian government efforts to influence the presidential elections of 2016 and related matters”.
Although the Mueller report, published in 2019, concluded that his team “did not establish that members of the Trump campaign had collaborated or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities”, the investigation has excavated evidence that a Russian effort took place and in Mueller’s words, “Proofing that the Batencant -Determined. To secure that outcome “.
Mueller added that the Trump campaign “expected it to benefit electorally from information stolen and released by Russian efforts”.
Mueller refused to accuse the son of Trump, Donald Trump JR, with the violation of campaign funding laws by asking information about Hillary Clinton of the Russian government in a meeting with a Russian lawyer in Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign, although the study made it clear to the Trump campaign.
When a publicist for the Russian oligarch who paid Trump to organize his Miss Universe -parade in Moscow in 2013, wrote to tell Don JR that a Russian public prosecutor wanted to offer the Trump campaign “Official documents and information that Hillary and her handling of the Lord”, the “Share -Ondersteringsand, would be the” Share Tone Resting “The” Deputy Resting “The” Deputy Resting “The” Deputy Renting ” Trump’s Trump, “as it’s what you love,” and it is Trump’s Campaign Chaerel, “and it’s Trump’s Campaign Chair, I love Mr. Trump”, Trump’s Trump’s, Trump’s Campaign Chair, I love Trump’s Campaign Chair Marter ” Kushner to attend the meeting.
The indictment of Comey comes as Trump wants to use the power of the Ministry of Justice to punish a man he sees as a central figure in the Russia investigation that he has constantly described as “a witch hunt” and “a hoax”.
One of the ironies of the situation is that Comey, who released himself as a rigid non-party medicinal law enforcement officer, played a major role in helping Trump to be chosen in the first place.
It was Comey who, as FBI director in the summer of 2016, decided not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton because of her use of a private -mail server to do business officially, but took it to hold a press conference to explain his decision.
On that public forum, Comey said that although Clinton and its employees were “extremely careless in their handling of highly sensitive, highly classified information” and there were “indications of possible violations of the articles of association with regard to the handling of classified information”, he had closed if a former officer of Justice “.
Trump offered that press conference and then ran against Clinton, ammunition to describe her use of a personal e -mail server as reckless. Trump embraced that attack line, especially after Wikileaks E -mails from Clinton campaign assistants had published who had been stolen by Russian government hackers.
Subsequently, days before the November elections, Comey suddenly announced that the FBI had reopened his research into Clinton’s own e -mails, after copies of some posts on the laptop had been found of the shame former congress member Anthony Weiner, who was then married to Clinton’s Aide Huma Abedin.
Although Comey announced before the election day that the assessment of the extra e -mails had not found anything of content, Clinton fell in the polls in the final days of the campaign and narrowly lost from Trump.
Een andere ironie is dat Comey, die nu is aangeklaagd door de nieuwe Amerikaanse advocaat voor het oostelijke district van Virginia, zelf een voormalige federale officier van justitie is in dat kantoor, die ging dienen als de Amerikaanse procureur voor het zuidelijke district van New York, en plaatsvervangend procureur -generaal onder George W Bush onder George W Bush werd later benoemd tot FBI -directeur door Barack Obama in 2013.
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