The legacy newscasts were all over the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, labeling his prosecution as part of an alleged “political retribution” campaign by President Donald Trump. These outlets were nowhere to be seen, though, as the Eastern District of Virginia dropped a multiple-warhead filing that decimated those narratives.
As reported by John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy on Just the News:
Federal prosecutors revealed Monday they have unearthed a trove of personal emails showing then-FBI Director James Comey openly talked in the days before the 2016 election that he expected to be working soon for President-elect Hillary Clinton and was being kept apprised by a top FBI aide on efforts to anonymously provide information to the news media.
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Monday's court filing also raised the possibility that prosecutors will argue Comey misled Congress about another element of his testimony, this involving whether he was aware of a U.S. intelligence intercept in summer 2016 indicating Clinton had approved a plan to smear Trump with the Russia allegations.
The court filing revealed prosecutors have specific handwritten notes — which were hidden in a secret room at the FBI — indicating Comey was aware of the intelligence.
Solomon would later appear on Hannity and break the filing down for viewers:
WATCH: @jsolomonReports goes on Hannity and lays out today's explosive Comey filing in EDVA, which none of the legacy newscasts covered: "A bad day for James Comey. He was hit by a boomerang today."" pic.twitter.com/69cwDRWYat
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SEAN HANNITY: Here with the details: he is the founder, he is the editor-in-chief, chief investigative reporter, justthenews.com, John Solomon- okay. The charges lie in the Congress, a lot of the statute of limitations and other issues have expired, not this. What I read today, and in your report, is damning to me as anything I have ever read.
JOHN SOLOMON: It is. Yeah. Listen, there are five bombshells in this. First- the reason we have this is that James Comey decided to play the victim card, say “I'm a victim of vindictive prosecution.” That opened up the door for Lindsay Halligan, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel to unleash some of the evidence. What does James Comey get confronted with? His own personal emails and handwritten notes. And I emphasize personal, because the first big revelation here is, while directing a campaign to sort of massage the media or spin the media on how- the way he handled Hillary Clinton's personal email case, he used personal email himself to do government business. Ironic. VYou can’t lose the irony of that. Second, it is very clear that he expected Hillary Clinton to win and that she one day would be quote, unquote: “grateful” about the way he handled her email case, so he has a political motive that we never saw in writing before. That’s really very significant. Third: it is clear, despite his testimony to the contrary, he directed Daniel Richman and approved his working anonymously with news media, even though he testified to the contrary, specifically, with phrases like “good job my friend”, when Daniel Richman reported to him what he spun The New York Times on. Or, “I hope they get- you’re making them smarter,” clearly advocating that he would talk to The New York Times and change their reporting on the story. Four, we now know that some of these documents that they found were found in the burn bags and in that secret room that Kash Patel talked about a couple of months ago. And five, and perhaps most consequentially, there are indications in these filings, Sean, that there are other contradictions in James Comey's testimony, including when he said he couldn't recall, didn’t remember, didn’t think it was possible he knew the U.S. had intercepted a Hillary Clinton's plan to hang (unint) on Donald Trump. His own notes showed he knew about it. So you have some other contradictions that prosecutors could come back with in a superseding indictment or some other action. So, a bad day for James Comey. He was hit by a boomerang today.
HANNITY: Wow. John Solomon, great work as always. We appreciate it. Thank you.
These revelations came from the secret room in the FBI building, which contained the classified documents in burn bags. That such a room containing such bags even existed should have been its own multiday scandal cycle, but alas.
The story was reported with enough time that it could’ve made it into the legacy evening newscasts. But alas, there was the Dodgers’ World Series parade, and the partial collapse of a medieval tower in Rome where everyone was rescued. There was the 50th anniversary of Good Morning America, and there was the Texas judge that has a bubble machine for when he officiates.
All of these were covered by the legacies, instead of these multi explosive sagas that in any other world would have drawn top billing. The double standard here is appalling, particularly with a case that the media were just hyping weeks ago.
