To read the breathless headlines in places like the Wall Street Journal about the indictment of James Comey, one would think the former FBI director is actually the saintly, persecuted figure he has framed himself to be these past eight years.

A Journal headline in the print edition recently blared: 'Ex-FBI Head Comey Indicted As Trump Presses for Payback'. Oh no, you say. This poor, tragic public servant has been targeted for 'payback' by Trump. The horror!

Then you read two paragraphs in and realize that there are actual crimes of which Comey is accused, which even the Journal's lefty reporters have to acknowledge. They write, “Prosecutors had raced to obtain the indictment, as the statute of limitations on such a case was due to run out next week.

The “case” over which the statute of limitations was 'due to run out' were Comey's very real alleged crimes. It wasn't some mythical thing that a raging Donald Trump conjured up in his imagination while tossing and turning on a sleepless night in the White House, notwithstanding the spin the Democrat activists pretending to be unbiased mainstream media reporters would have you believe.

The crimes involved Comey's allegedly false testimony to the US Senate's Judiciary Committee on September 30, 2020, that he had not been informed of subordinate Andrew McCabe's leaks to the Wall Street Journal in 2016 regarding the DOJ's investigation of corruption at the Clinton Foundation.

Despite the very strong evidence that Comey did in fact break the law by lying to........

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