Federal prosecutors are pursuing charges against former FBI Director James Comey as a way of “striking back” for actions he took against President Donald Trump during his time in office, but their case against him is “weak,” retired Judge Andrew Napolitano said Friday on Newsmax.
Napolitano, Newsmax’s senior judicial analyst, commented on Newsmax’s “National Report” that Comey’s behavior toward Trump during his presidency was “illegal, reprehensible, and politically motivated,” but still, “It’s too late to prosecute him for that.”
“Many of the things he did in the first term, and then he was fired in the beginning of the first term,” said Napolitano. “Many of the things he did in the tail end of President [Barack] Obama’s presidency could have formed the basis for criminal prosecutions in the first Trump term. They didn’t do that. The statute of limitations has expired.”
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