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The Justice Department indicted former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday after President Donald Trump publicly complained that Attorney General Pam Bondi hadn’t secured charges against him and some of his other political adversaries, multiple outlets reported.
Bondi confirmed the news on X, saying the indictment is emblematic of the Justice Department’s “commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people.”
No one is above the law. Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case.
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) September 25, 2025Comey, whom Trump has long accused of criminal conduct related to his FBI investigation into possible collusion between Russia and his campaign during the 2016 election, was indicted on one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice, according to ABC News and The Associated Press.
Current FBI Director Kash Patel also confirmed the news, calling Comey’s investigation into Trump “a disgraceful chapter in history we continue to investigate and expose.”
Trump, who fired Comey in 2017, made his expectations for an indictment clear in a Sept. 20 Truth Social post directed at Bondi.
“We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility,” Trump wrote, arguing that Comey, along with his other political enemies, Sen. Adam Schiff and Attorney General Letitia James of New York, are “all guilty as hell” and that the DOJ has a “GREAT CASE.” He ended the post with the urgent demand: “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”
Trump’s demands came after he forced acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik Siebert out of his job because he hadn’t secured indictments against Comey and James. Days before Siebert handed in his resignation, sources told The New York Times, he had told his superiors at the Justice Department that the cases against Comey and James were weak and unlikely to result in charges.
Trump replaced Siebert with Lindsey Halligan, a White House adviser and his former personal lawyer with no prior experience as a prosecutor. While working for Trump, Halligan was given the task of ridding the Smithsonian Institution of “improper ideology.”
Trump referenced her in his post directed at Bondi, writing, “Lindsey Halligan is a really good lawyer, and likes you, a lot.”
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Trump’s post pressuring Bondi comes as the five-year statute of limitations on congressional testimony Comey gave on Sept. 30, 2020, is set to run out, the Times noted.
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