Judge Temporarily Blocks DOJ From Using Evidence Proving James Comey's Guilt https://t.co/C2n7k9aMkE
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 8, 2025
A federal judge has dealt a setback to Justice Department efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, temporarily barring prosecutors from using evidence they had relied on when they initially secured criminal charges.
This isn’t what happened. What happened was that the in 2017, Comey’s lawyer, Richman, cooperated with the FBI when they were investigating Comey. He allowed them to image his computer and iCloud. They were allowed to look for specific things, as spelled out by a subpoena. The investigation was closed in 2021.
When Trump got back into office this time around, the DOJ opened a different investigation into Comey and looked at those files again. That’s a no, no because 1. they didn’t get a warrant, or 2 ask for Richman’s permission. In fact, Richman didn’t even know they had used those materials (some which may be attorney-client privileged) until the DOJ botched Comey’s indictment.
When Richman found out, he filed a motion to prevent the DOJ and FBI from going through those files again. He filed for a temporary injunction.
The court granted it, because the DOJ didn’t answer Richman’s suit. That’s shear incompetence – AGAIN. Once the DOJ gets their ass out of the ground, they can respond.
TLDR: Trump’s DOJ is incompetent.
h/t PrezofTX