FILE PHOTO: Former FBI Director, James Comey appears earlier the Senate Intelligence Committee successful the Hart Office Building connected Thursday June 08, 2017 successful Washington, DC.
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Former FBI Director James Comey, a longtime people of President Donald Trump's ire, was indicted Thursday connected transgression charges of mendacious connection and obstruction.
The charges came days aft Trump publicly complained to Attorney General Pam Bondi that "nothing is being done" astir Comey and different of the president's perceived enemies, who helium claimed were "all blameworthy arsenic hell."
A elder Justice Department authoritative told NBC News that Comey was charged successful a two-count indictment.
Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared to notation Comey's indictment, without mentioning him by name, arsenic quality of the charges broke.
"No 1 is supra the law," Bondi wrote successful a station connected X.
"Today's indictment reflects this Department of Justice's committedness to holding those who maltreatment positions of powerfulness accountable for misleading the American people," Bondi said. "We volition travel the facts successful this case."
FBI Director Kash Patel, successful his ain station connected X, wrote, "Today, your FBI took different measurement successful its committedness of afloat accountability."
"For acold excessively long, erstwhile corrupt enactment and their enablers weaponized national instrumentality enforcement, damaging erstwhile arrogant institutions and severely eroding nationalist trust," Patel wrote. "Every day, we proceed the combat to gain that spot back, and nether my leadership, this FBI volition face the occupation head-on."
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