Comey Takes Victory Lap After Judge Dismisses Case: ‘Prosecution Based on Malevolence and Incompetence’

Sarah Rumpf Nov 24th, 2025, 3:17 pm

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Former FBI Director James Comey took a victory lap Monday after the Department of Justice’s case against him was dismissed, blasting the prosecution as “fundamentally un-American” and “based on malevolence and incompetence.”

The case against Comey had been widely panned as lacking in legal merit, even by numerous conservatives , with many viewing the case as a politically motivated prosecution by President Donald Trump and finding multiple flaws with the documents filed by the president’s recent appointee for U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, his former attorney Lindsey Halligan .

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