Let the legal wrangling begin. Former FBI director and gigantic weirdo James Comey was formally arraigned this morning on the felony indictments regarding lying to Congress and obstruction.

Despite Comey being a huge jackass and disliked by both sides of the aisle, this will not be an open-and-shut case.

The former top lawman, clad in a dark blue suit, stared straight ahead toward US District Judge Michael Nachmanoff during the 30-minute hearing. Comey’s lawyer, former Chicago US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, entered the not guilty plea on his client’s behalf.

Comey only spoke to say “I do, your honor,” when Nachmanoff asked if he understood the charges.

“My client is anxious to get to a speedy trial,” Fitzgerald said.

But prosecutor Tyler Lemons asked for a slightly delayed trial schedule, citing a “large” amount of evidence in the case and claiming: “We’re just getting our hands around the discovery as well.”

Nachmanoff — an appointee of former President Joe Biden — agreed to the slight postponement but added he was “a little skeptical” about Lemons’ characterization.

The judge said the case wasn’t “overly complicated” and had a “discrete set of facts.”

But Lemons argued there was a “significant amount of classified information” and noted that only one lawyer on Comey’s defense team had clearance to look at those documents at the moment.

Fitzgerald said he had “hoped that a trial can be avoided,” and said he planned to file motions to get the case thrown out on the grounds of vindictive prosecution and for the alleged unlawful appointment of the prosecutor on the case.

That prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, has no prosecutorial experience (as many pointed out, because she was essentially brought in after the previous prosecutor was fired, just so these charges could be filed before the statute of limitations ran out), and while she was in court, was deferring to Lemons (who is an assistant U.S. Attorney out of North Carolina, but just joined the case on Tuesday) to do the talking. Comey’s lawyer Fitzgerald, on the other hand, has his plan of attack ready to go.

Fitzgerald signaled Wednesday that he plans to file a series of motions seeking to have the case dismissed before it ever reaches a trial.

Fitzgerald said he will argue that Halligan acted improperly before the grand jury and that she should be disqualified due to the circumstances of her appointment. Fitzgerald also said he will seek to have the case thrown out as a vindictive and selective prosecution, as well as on the grounds of outrageous government conduct.

We have already covered the essence of the indictments previously, along with the fact that President Trump desperately wanted these charges brought against Comey. Yes, the president holds grudges. Given that the Biden Department of Justice went after Trump for holding classified documents while declining to charge Biden for the same thing, and that Hunter Biden and the Biden siblings all walked away with blanket pardons… yeah, President Trump is going to be salty about that for a long time. I’m not saying that it’s right, I’m saying that the president is human.

You're welcome to build a time machine and use it to go back to 2021 and warn Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and Fani Willis not to prosecute Trump. Or anyone else who doesn't like Trump's revenge can do it. Until then, well, here we are. https://t.co/AEYSdukTbz

— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) October 8, 2025

But about James Comey. We already know that he was a part of getting “Crossfire Hurricane” to the point where he just “had to” tell Donald Trump about it – which then made it a story. We also know that Comey has leaked information before.

Comey has admitted to leaking information to the press in the past, including in 2017 when he told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he asked his “good friend” and Columbia University law professor, Daniel Richman, to leak memos for him about Trump allegedly instructing that an investigation into Michael Flynn be dropped.

Trump fired Comey during his first term in office in the middle of the Russia probe, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller took over, ultimately finding there wasn’t enough proof to show a criminal conspiracy.

The media cares about the Comey indictment (because they ate up the Russian collusion hoax and all the Trump indictments, and now they are here for the “revenge” tour), but the American people? Do they really care about what happens to the tall whack job who loves random seashell art?

They may have to call in the National Guard. It looks like things can get pretty heavy.

— JP (@J_P1776) October 8, 2025

There was more media than outside supporters there for Comey, which really is no surprise.

The trial date has been set for next January, though the motions that will be filed by the defense will be addressed a lot sooner than that. This legal circus is just beginning, and there are no guarantees for either side. The only guaranteed facts are that the media will blame Trump, and Comey is still a huge freakjob who should have never been elevated to FBI director.

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