CNN Anchor Bombards Trump With Comey Receipts Amid Bombshell Indictment
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper dropped a barrage of video receipts tracing President Donald Trump’s years-long crusade against former FBI Director James Comey amid a bombshell indictment that could be derailed by that campaign.
News broke Wednesday that Comey and New York AG Letitia James (D) would likely face indictment days after Trump publicly pressured Attorney General Pam Bondi to go after a list of enemies in a DM-style Truth Social post and again in remarks to reporters. Sure enough, the indictment dropped on Thursday, with a defiant Comey pledging to fight it out in court.
Many observers believe that Trump’s explicit pressure campaign to charge Comey could lead to a strong “malicious prosecution” defense.
On Friday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Cooper called out Trump’s years of attacks on Comey with a lengthy supercut, and accused him of using the DOJ as his own personal instrument:
COOPER: Well, tonight’s charges came even as sources were telling us that Attorney General Bondi and other federal prosecutors had concerns about the case. If so, the Attorney General, at least now seems on board.
She posted about it online, quoting, “No one is above the law. Today’s indictment reflects the Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case.”
A short time later, the President weighed in, the post reads, “Justice in America, one of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former corrupt head of the FBI. Today, he was indicted by a grand jury on two felony counts for various illegal and unlawful acts. He’s been so bad for our country for so long, and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our nation, Make America Great Again.”
His animus toward James Comey is no surprise. He’s talked about it, yelled about it, joked about it for years.
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DONALD TRUMP (R) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Comey and all this, you know, sleazebags.
Comey lied to everybody.
We fired Comey, that fraud.
That phony crooked Comey.
Comey should hang his head in disgrace.
Comey is a dirty cop.
Comey is a corrupt person.
One of the best things is firing James Comey’s (bleep) out of there.
He’s a leaker.
Comey, who’s the worst —
They lied to Congress many times, you know, Comey and all those guys.
Comey lies and leaks. He’s a liar and he’s a leaker. Is this guy being looked at? But we’re going to straighten it out.
A guy like Comey who’s a sick man, I mean, Comey is a sick man. The one person I did a very good thing in firing was the dirty cop, Comey. There’s something wrong with him. But it’s all coming out and I love to watch it step by step, day by day.
Comey is a liar and a leaker. I did you a great favor when I fired this guy.
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COOPER: This guy has now been indicted by the Department of Justice, which the President clearly views as his Department of Justice. As for the urgency, now, the statute of limitations was about to run out on Tuesday.
Watch above via CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360.
