Former FBI Director James Comey is pleading not guilty after being indicted on one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice.
The charges stem from Comey’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020, where questions surrounding his role leading the FBI and the investigation into the Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia — a hoax — took center stage.
As Breitbart News reported last month:
The charges were brought after the Trump administration replaced the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert, with White House aide Lindsey Halligan, who sought an immediate indictment from the grand jury before the statute of limitations could expire next Tuesday.
After the indictment was publicized, Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a sta