Turley: Remarkable For Comey To Make A Selective Prosecution Argument With A Straight Face, A Crushing Irony
FOX News contributor and law professor Jonathan Turley appeared on Wednesday’s “Hannity” to react to former FBI Director James Comey pleading not guilty to lying and obstructing Congress.
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Jonathan Turley, he has a Biden judge. Of course he would get a Biden judge, so I don’t know what the hopes are of a conviction here. But the fact that he was also involved in using misinformation, a bought and paid for Russian disinformation dossier, and presented it to the FISA court and signed three of the four FISA warrants himself, and then years later said, oh yeah, knowing what I know now, I’d never sign it. But now we do have at least a prima facie case, do we not, that he knew? JONATHAN TURLEY, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, that is what this ultimately comes down to. Either he’s lying or he’s not. What is, there are a couple of crushing ironies here. First, you have Comey planning to make a selective prosecution argument that, you know, this is the type of conduct that other people do, and that he’s been singled out by the Justice Department. This is Comey, who virtually trapped the former national security advisor of Donald Trump, who admitted that he sort of broke protocol and sent two guys over to Michael Flynn’s office to effectively sandbag him, and then charged him with lying. So it’s really remarkable he could make this case with a straight face. The other irony is that the trial is scheduled for January 5th. That’s the anniversary of this infamous meeting where he and others briefed Obama, and they laid the foundations for the Russian investigation. So it’s just a series of crushing ironies in Alexandria.
