GREGG JARRETT: Comey’s Russian hoax is a reminder how he is similar to Nixon

In the annals of "smoking gun" documents, the precocious revealed handwritten notes by James Comey fertile close up determination with the infamous tapes that imploded Richard Nixon’s presidency.  

Unfortunately, the ex-FBI potentate is "Nixonian" successful a myriad of ways — needy, narcissistic, vindictive and manipulative. They some professed honesty but treated information with utter contempt. Nixon gave america Watergate portion Comey bequeathed the Russia Hoax. Each was forced from bureau mired successful disgrace.  

Alas, there’s 1 much eerie resemblance. Just arsenic Nixon tried to sabotage his infamous Oval Office recordings, Comey’s combustible notes were consigned to an incinerator.     

Stuffed successful 1 of 5 "burn bags" that were secretly squirreled distant successful a locked precocious information country astatine the FBI, his self-incriminating scribbles were expected to spell up successful smoke. For reasons chartless oregon undisclosed, they did not.

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Former FBI Director James Comey is drawn successful a courtroom sketch during his October 8, 2025 arraignment successful Virginia. (Federal Court, sketch creator Dana Verkouteren)

In 1 damning note, Comey confirms what immoderate of america person known and argued each on —he knew astir astatine the outset of the Russia collusion communicative that it was an odious fabrication conjured up by erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s run and personally approved by her connected July 26, 2016.  

Clinton’s objective, according to Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report, was "to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a ungraded claiming interference by the Russian information services," thereby tipping the upcoming statesmanlike predetermination successful her favor.  

When aboriginal questioned by Congress astir his cognition of the epic deceit, Comey claimed an acute lawsuit of amnesia. He feigned nary recollection whatsoever of Clinton’s opprobrious crippled to smear Trump.  

However, Comey’s missive to himself puts a conspicuous prevarication to that testimony. It reads, "HRC program to necktie Trump." It is not thing that anyone would ever forget. 

While it is hard to discern, the accusation appears attributable to "JB," which is astir surely then-CIA Director John Brennan. This comports with Brennan’s ain declassified handwritten notes that quality communications had uncovered Clinton’s governmental chicanery.

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At an urgent White House meeting, Brennan had disclosed the shocking accusation to President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Comey. Instead of divulging the information to the American public, they each remained mum and watched idly — possibly happily — arsenic the hoax gradually morphed into full-blown faux ungraded that astir toppled Trump’s presidency.    

Comey’s notes verify his consciousness of the "Clinton Plan," arsenic it was dubbed. They are written connected an FBI notepad marked "Director" and dated Sept. 26, 2016, which coincides successful clip with a gathering of high-ranking U.S. nationalist information officials that included Brennan and James Clapper, manager of National Intelligence (DNI).  

Instead of pursuing Clinton for a transgression strategy to defraud the authorities successful a statesmanlike election, arsenic U.S. quality officials powerfully recommended to the FBI successful a "Referral Memo" connected Sept. 7, 2016, the unscrupulous Comey did conscionable the opposite. He appropriated Clinton’s fabrication to people her opponent.  

When aboriginal questioned by Congress astir his cognition of the epic deceit, Comey claimed an acute lawsuit of amnesia. He feigned nary recollection whatsoever of Clinton’s opprobrious crippled to smear Trump.  

Simultaneously, Comey concealed the "Clinton Plan" due to the fact that it was highly exculpatory. If it became known oregon if Congress was informed, it would unmask Hillary’s treachery and exonerate Trump of immoderate wrongdoing successful the collusion fable. 

Comey was not astir to fto that happen. He had already launched without predicate his dilating probe of Trump and was profoundly invested successful protecting Hillary.

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You volition callback that, connected July 5, 2016, Comey stood earlier tv cameras and, absent immoderate authority, inexplicably cleared the presumptive Democratic nominee of the assorted crimes that she had intelligibly committed successful her notorious email fiasco implicit the deliberate and reckless mishandling of classified records. But that’s not all.  

Comey besides scuttled the bureau’s probe into suspected transgression enactment surrounding the Clinton Foundation and the millions of dollars funneled into it from Russian and different overseas sources. Substantial grounds developed by U.S. attorneys was thereafter buried connected his orders. You tin work astir it successful the Durham Report, pages 78-81. 

Former FBI Director James Comey's aged notes are coming backmost to haunt him. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

July 5 was besides a pivotal time for different reason, arsenic I explained successful my 2018 book, "The Russia Hoax."  

At the precise infinitesimal that Comey was absolving Clinton, his FBI was furtively gathering with the writer of the phony anti-Trump "dossier" funded by Hillary and Democrats. Although the FBI swiftly debunked Christopher Steele’s scurrilous document, Comey was undeterred. He exploited it arsenic a pretext successful a malicious effort to framework Trump for unidentified crimes helium ne'er committed. 

Comey's information was obvious. His recently unearthed emails show that helium expected Clinton would triumph the election. He adjacent bragged that helium would soon beryllium moving for a president-elect Clinton who would beryllium "very grateful." His gamble fueled corrupt acts.

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Comey ne'er imagined that Trump would prevail. So, helium politicized his powerfulness and weaponized the FBI to meddle successful the statesmanlike contention for the payment of Hillary. When his illicit strategy failed and Trump was elected, Comey doubled down connected the collusion hoax successful an effort to destruct Trump and thrust him from office.  

This is what maltreatment of powerfulness looks like. Facts were invented oregon exaggerated. Laws were perverted and ignored. The instrumentality enforcers became the lawbreakers. They falsely accused Trump portion shielding the existent culprit, Clinton.  

Comey’s "smoking gun" notes lone came to airy due to the fact that helium precocious filed respective motions to disregard his national indictment successful Virginia for mendacious statements and obstruction of Congress. Among different things, helium ironically asserts vindictive prosecution by Trump and separately contends that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan’s assignment was improper. The result of those matters is pending.  

Prosecutors responded to the archetypal question by sharing a trove of documents — galore of them classified — discovered successful the 5 "burn bags."  

They were destined for a smoky sedate conscionable days earlier Trump assumed bureau again connected Jan. 20, 2025, successful what tin lone beryllium described arsenic a brazen effort to obstruct justness and perpetrate the transgression of willful demolition of documents nether 18 U.S.C. 2071. Who was down it, we don’t yet know.

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Comey's information was obvious. His recently unearthed emails show that helium expected Clinton would triumph the election. 

In summation to the notes that Comey penned, different uncovered records cited successful the tribunal filing further substantiate the government’s charges that helium lied to Congress erstwhile helium denied authorizing anonymous leaks to the property successful usurpation of FBI guidelines. He was covertly manipulating media reporting done a conduit.  

After 1 palmy leak, Comey sent a connection to his collaborator stating, "Well done my friend. Who knew this would. E [sic] truthful uh fun." (Who knew this would beryllium truthful fun.) Deploying a Gmail account, helium hid his intrigues nether the alias "Reinhold Niebuhr," a deceased ethicist. There was thing motivation astir what Comey was doing. It was sleazy.  

But that’s not all. Among the "burn bag" contents were materials that uncover the appalling breadth of the lawfare run waged archetypal by the Obama medication and, later, the Biden medication against Trump and galore others. Some of the documents shed captious airy connected the January 6 breach of the Capitol, the 2020 predetermination quality and the FBI’s dubious raid connected Mar-a-Lago.  

All of that was leveraged by Special Counsel Jack Smith to ignite the treble indictments against Trump that were yet tossed. The grounds is compelling that some prosecutions were politically motivated to halt him from retaking the White House.   

The genesis of those 2 cases arose from a concealed FBI probe codification named "Arctic Frost," approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray successful April 2022. In owed time, Smith surreptitiously obtained astir 200 subpoenas to seizure idiosyncratic telephone communications of much than 400 Republicans. Anyone successful Trump’s orbit was targeted, including 8 U.S. senators and adjacent media organizations.     

It is nary mishap that the stunning find of the "burn bags" dovetails with a recently impaneled expansive assemblage probe successful South Florida that encompasses the full gamut of corrupt acts aimed astatine Trump — from the "Crossfire Hurricane" debacle to the errant "Arctic Frost" probe. The erstwhile evolved into the second that led to the misbegotten Smith prosecutions. Altogether, they impacted 3 successive statesmanlike elections. More than 2 twelve subpoenas are reportedly being issued for the expansive assemblage to consider.   

Evidence of an expansive and ongoing conspiracy to torment Trump volition apt beryllium examined successful the discourse of 2 national anti-corruption statutes that criminalize abuses of power, 18 U.S.C. 241 and 242. These civilian rights laws marque it a felony to willfully deprive radical of their law rights nether colour of instrumentality oregon pretense of ineligible authority.  

Additional documents uncovered and declassified by existent DNI Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe person contributed to the mounting grounds of manufactured quality and transgression wrongdoing that the expansive assemblage volition inevitably evaluate.

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Hillary Clinton speaks during the "A Special Evening With Hillary Clinton" astatine the 74th Berlin International Film Festival astatine Theater des Westens connected February 19, 2024, successful Berlin, Germany. (Franziska Krug/Getty Images)

As Comey works hard to debar the Virginia proceedings that helium insists helium wants, his nefarious machinations that instigated the long-running lawfare run volition not flight the nonstop attraction of the Florida expansive jury. The aforesaid is existent of different authorities actors who mangled facts and contorted the instrumentality to persecute Trump successful an unbridled crusade that ran roughshod implicit our ineligible strategy for astir a decade. 

During that time, the regularisation of instrumentality came nether sustained onslaught by precocious authorities officials similar Comey and truthful galore others who abused their positions of powerfulness to subvert our model of justness and undermine the antiauthoritarian process.

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The force is within. Trump was their people … and their victim. And truthful were the American people. They were harmed and forced to endure a divisive nationalist trauma that should ne'er person been. The wounds are inactive with us. And so, a reckoning awaits.  

Yet, conscionable arsenic Nixon evaded prosecution by courtesy of a pardon, volition Comey someway elude accountability? 

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