{"id":67733,"date":"2025-09-26T13:24:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67733"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:24:58","slug":"wow-even-fox-news-media-and-legal-analysts-bash-trumps-bogus-james-comey-indictments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67733","title":{"rendered":"WOW! Even Fox News Media and Legal Analysts Bash Trump&#8217;s Bogus James Comey Indictments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2024 presidential campaign, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63698\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump promised his supporters that he would be their <em>&#8220;retribution.&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> It was a pledge that he has kept as he steamrolled over his political enemies, the free press, and the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=WOW! Even Fox News Media and Legal Analysts Bash Trump's Bogus James Comey Indictments%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67733\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=WOW! Even Fox News Media and Legal Analysts Bash Trump's Bogus James Comey Indictments%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67733\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/comey-trump.jpg\" alt=\"James Comey, Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Trump took another step down the path toward totalitarianism with the indictment of former FBI Director, James Comey, for alleged obstruction and lying to Congress. These charges were brought just days after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\/post\/3lzojyqnhws22\" target=\"_blank\">Trump demanded that his Attorney Genuflect, Pam Bondi, go after Comey and others<\/a><\/strong>. Bondi obediently complied with a pathetic two page indictment that Comey has pledged to fight back against. Which is a smart move since Bondi utterly failed to make a case against Comey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67582\" target=\"_blank\">More Proof That When You Fight Wannabe Dictator Trump, You Win: NY Times Lawsuit Edition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department&#8217;s case against Comey is so bad that even Fox News is having trouble defending it. Setting aside their most prominent Trump disciples (Sean Hannity, Maria Bartiromo, Jesse Watters, Fox and Friends, etc.), who blindly slobber over Dear Leader like glassy-eyed groupies, at least two of Fox&#8217;s contributors are taking Comey&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Kurtz, Fox&#8217;s media analyst, was on the network&#8217;s evening <em>&#8220;news&#8221;<\/em> program to discuss the matter. And he didn&#8217;t mince words, saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This was completely and totally orchestrated by President Trump. He says he&#8217;s leaving it to Justice, but he very much out in the open, remember, he fired his own appointee as U.S. Attorney in that part of Virginia because he didn&#8217;t think there was enough evidence to bring this case, brought in a White House aide, his former defense lawyer, whose job was to get this done and apparently that has worked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve become inured to this, but in previous administrations, any hint of contact with a criminal case would be a scandal on its own. And so, President Trump, by the way, he pulled the strings, has gotten his way with this initial indictment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lzpl4qzjr22i\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreihutn6b53poa23o3qirxb2sy3t6ytesz6lhlgptivqmz2wbey34pm\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Fox\u2019s Howard Kurtz: \u201cThis was completely and totally orchestrated by President Trump\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw?ref_src=embed\">The Tennessee Holler  (@thetnholler.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw\/post\/3lzpl4qzjr22i?ref_src=embed\">2025-09-26T03:56:32.141Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s was an excellent summary of events. And coming from Kurtz, who has spent years propping up Trump, it&#8217;s particularly notable. But he wasn&#8217;t the only Fox News Trumpist slamming the indictments. Fox&#8217;s ultra-conservative legal analyst, Andrew McCarty, also weighed in on how ridiculous the Comey indictment is. He told Fox&#8217;s Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, that, <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a case&#8230;it seems to be premised on something that&#8217;s not true.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lzqiy4s6ak2i\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreic6utgp3pkgk6wrezha4mrs4gharxeauuiwe56p55mmohaglhuasq\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Andrew McCarthy to Maria Bartiromo on Comey indictment: &#34;I don&#39;t think there&#39;s a case &#8230; it seems to be premised on something that&#39;s not true, which is that McCabe said that Comey authorized him to leak to the Wall Street Journal &#8230; I don&#39;t see how they can make that case.&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3lzqiy4s6ak2i?ref_src=embed\">2025-09-26T12:50:48.893Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bartiromo responded by trying to broaden the charges against Comey by dragging in Trump&#8217;s allegations of the infamous <em>&#8220;Russia hoax.&#8221;<\/em> But McCarthy knocks that down by correctly noting that that is not what this case is about. McCarthy informs Bartiromo that the Comey indictment alleges that he authorized a leak to the media by former Deputy FBI Director Andy McCabe. But all of the evidence &#8211; including an Inspector General&#8217;s report and McCabe&#8217;s own testimony &#8211; shows that that never happened.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Trump has been doing his best to tank the case by providing Comey with a defense for vindictive prosecution. To date Trump has proven his seething hatred by firing Comey&#8217;s daughter, who prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s partner, Ghislaine Maxwell. He also fired the U.S. Attorney, Erik Siebert, who concluded that there wasn&#8217;t sufficient evidence to indict Comey. Then he hired Lindsey Halligan, his personal lawyer with zero prosecutorial experience, to replace Siebert. With two days on the job she filed the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that Trump&#8217;s rage-posting on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66938\" target=\"_blank\">his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, where he <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trumpstruth.org\/statuses\/33090\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated the indictment<\/a><\/strong> saying <em>&#8220;JUSTICE IN AMERICA! One of the worst human beings this Country has ever been exposed to is James Comey.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trumpstruth.org\/statuses\/33095\" target=\"_blank\">another posting<\/a><\/strong> Trump ranted that <em>&#8220;HE LIED!&#8230;There is no way he can explain his way out of it. He is a Dirty Cop.&#8221;<\/em> [and that&#8230;] <em>&#8220;he was just assigned a Crooked Joe Biden appointed Judge, so he\u2019s off to a very good start.&#8221;<\/em> [and that&#8230;] <em>&#8220;a very big price must be paid!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All of that contributes to a defense for vindictive and\/or selective prosecution. It could also be used to dismiss the case as a violation of the Constitution&#8217;s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments that  provide for <em>&#8220;the presumption of innocence.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s postings babbled on about the alleged lie that Comey purportedly made in testimony before the Senate in 2020. But he never bothers to specify what Comey said that was supposedly untrue. However, in Trump&#8217;s defense, that&#8217;s only because Trump was making it up and that there wasn&#8217;t anything that Comey said that was untrue.<\/p>\n<p>That, however, has never stopped Trump before when he was determined to defame his foes and\/or exalt himself. It&#8217;s standard operating procedure for Trump and his MAGA cronies. And it is going to fail bigly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67562\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Whines that \u2018All They Do Is Hit Trump\u2019 and Decrees That \u2018They\u2019re Not Allowed To Do That\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67549\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Flunky Jesse Watters Demands \u2018Heinous\u2019 Liberals Repent or Be Cast Out of Polite Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=59221\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Cloddishly Dodges Hannity\u2019s Softball Questions About Whether He Would Be a Dictator<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised his supporters that he would be their &#8220;retribution.&#8221; It was a pledge that he has kept as he steamrolled over his political enemies, the free press, and the Constitution. Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky On Thursday Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1201,1200],"tags":[554,33,297,1179],"class_list":["post-67733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-justice","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-howard-kurtz","tag-james-comey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/comey-trump.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-hCt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34860,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34860","url_meta":{"origin":67733,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#8217;s Claim that Comey&#8217;s Testimony is a &#8216;Complete Vindication&#8217; is Delusional &#8211; Here&#8217;s Why","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/9\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"After much anticipation, former FBI Director James Comey appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. 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