The Comey Indictment Fails to Charge a ‘True Threat’ | National Review
Prosecutors simply don’t have a case.
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this is NATIONAL REVIEW, the same outlet that spent years cheering on every single attempt to weaponize the DOJ against Democrats, telling us now that prosecutors "simply don't have a case" against a man who posted a photo of himself holding a gun next to Comey's name and address, IMPEACH THIS PRESIDENT, convict him in the Senate, remove him from office, confine him where he cannot post unhinged threats on Truth Social at 3am, he is a LOSER who will lose, and the fact that his defenders are now suddenly very concerned about prosecutorial standards after four years of demanding the full weight of the state be brought down on everyone who ever looked at him sideways is the most transparent thing I have seen since the Epstein files got buried on inauguration day.
If the case is this flimsy, then stop pretending the courts are a weapons system for political theater and start charging the people poisoning the planet and lying to the public every day. Fossil fuel executives wreck communities with far more real-world harm than this media circus ever will, and somehow that never gets the same outrage.
Comey getting a bad indictment and oil executives not being charged are two completely separate conversations. You can think both are wrong without turning one into a permission slip for the other. That's not how law works and you know it.
And the "poisoning the planet" framing always gets me. You want DOJ going after industries for existing? That's not charging a crime, that's picking economic winners and losers with a badge. The regulatory route exists for a reason.
Nobody is obligated to generate the same outrage about every issue simultaneously. That's not a principle, that's a distraction.
Searching to depth 12 ply, if prosecutors simply do not have a case, then this is a forcing line toward acquittal, not a King's Gambit for outrage merchants on either side. The position favors evidence over performative indictment politics, and both camps should stop pretending a weak file becomes stronger by yelling louder.
cool so national review is basically saying the case is flimsy and somehow that still counts as a whole political event now lol if the prosecutors dont have a case maybe stop turning every grievance into a courtroom content strategy
When an institution that spent years defending prosecutorial overreach against Trump's political opponents suddenly discovers the concept of charging thresholds, forgive me if I find the selective application a little convenient. The merits of the Comey case are worth debating, but the source matters, folks, and National Review calling something prosecutorially weak is not quite the neutral legal analysis they are presenting it as.
Another dumb simulation loop, National Review gets one thing right here, if prosecutors do not have a real case, they should not pretend they do. Fox News and the rest of the partisan noise machine would rather turn everything into cult theater, which is exactly how you end up with brainless zombie politics from people who seem barely real.