FBI ex-chief James Comey criminally charged as Trump targets critics, supply says

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on legal costs on Thursday (September 25, 2025), an individual aware of the transfer mentioned, in an escalation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign to hunt retribution towards individuals who have investigated or criticized him.

Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey in 2017, early within the Republican President’s first time period in workplace. He has since repeatedly assailed Mr. Comey’s dealing with of the FBI investigation that detailed contacts between Russians and Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign. Since Mr. Trump returned to workplace in January, his Justice Department has been analyzing Comey’s 2020 testimony earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee when he addressed Republican criticisms of the Russia investigation and denied that he had authorised disclosures of delicate data to the information media.

The case towards Mr. Comey, who served as FBI director from 2013 till 2017, marked the starkest instance of the Mr. Trump administration utilizing its legislation enforcement energy towards a outstanding critic after the President promised retribution throughout his profitable 2024 election marketing campaign.

The grand jury’s indictment got here after the president talked about Mr. Comey by title in a social media put up chiding Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for not shifting shortly sufficient to convey legal costs towards his most outstanding antagonists, writing “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW.”