CNN senior justice correspondent Evan Pérez revealed an unusual detail about the Trump DOJ’s case against former FBI Director James Comey to Kaitlan Collins on Thursday night.
“Evan, obviously we’ve seen this indictment now. It’s just about two pages, it’s quite brief actually. As you combed through it, what stood out to you?” inquired Collins.
“Yeah, no, the bare bones nature of this charge, of this indictment really stands out. And what we know about it, Kaitlan, is that Lindsay Halligan, who is the newly installed U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, she is the one who personally presented this to the grand jury,” replied Pérez. “That’s not normal. Usually you have career assistant U.S. Attorneys who make these presentations to the grand jury. In this case, we know that there were concerns that were raised by the career lawyers in that office who did not believe that this was a case that they could bring to fruition. And so what we have here is two counts against the former FBI Director, an extraordinary day in American history, of course.”
“We know that Comey, as he says in his video statement there, is planning to fight this. We also have a statement from his personal lawyer, Pat Fitzgerald, who says, ‘Jim Comey denies the charges filed today in their entirety. We look forward to vindicating him in the courtroom.’” And so that process begins tomorrow in earnest as your reporting indicates,” he continued. “He’s going to be surrendering in federal court there in Alexandria. And then we’ll see how this case fares before a judge and, before eventually perhaps, a jury.”
Trump named Lindsay Halligan to her post on Monday after her predecessor, Erik Siebert, resigned last week, reportedly over his refusal to prosecute New York Attorney General Leticia James.
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