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Former Department of Justice prosecutor Ryan R. Crosswell slammed the department Friday, calling ex-FBI Director James Comey’s indictment a “continuation of the abuse of power” he witnessed firsthand.
“I think this is unprecedented in American history,“ Crosswell told CNN’s Laura Coates. “You have a president who put out an enemies list essentially, then prevailed upon his Attorney General to pursue one of the people on that list, which he did, and now you have the Attorney General saying that there’ll be more to come.”
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Comey was charged on Thursday following pressure from President Donald Trump on the DOJ, and was accused of lying to Congress during a now-concluded 2020 criminal investigation involving Russian interference on behalf of the Republican campaign in 2016.
Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X that “no one is above the law,” adding that Comey’s indictment reflects her department’s “commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people.”
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Crosswell, who resigned from the DOJ earlier this year over New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ federal corruption case dismissal, said Bondi’s claim that “no one is above the law” is “the most galling part about all this.”
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“We know that’s not true,” Crosswell said. “Eric Adams is above the law. Tom Homan is above the law. Apparently, anybody in the Epstein files is above the law and really, anyone who’s a friend of Donald Trump’s is above the law.”
A bombshell MSNBC report last week revealed Homan, the White House border czar, was being investigated for allegedly accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives interested in gaining government contracts in Trump’s second term. The FBI and Justice Department shut down the investigation, stating, “They found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing.”
Crosswell, however, told Coates he has “no doubt that” Comey will not be convicted.
“I think that there’s going to be a very valid, selective or vindictive prosecution motion that just may stop this in its tracks,” Crosswell said.
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Crosswell also questioned the prosecuting competence of Trump’s newly appointed acting U.S. Attorney, former insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan, who presented Comey’s case to the grand jury.
“It’s being brought by a U.S. attorney whose previous experience is as an insurance attorney, whose first indictment was so sloppy, the paragraphs were misnumbered, and there was two ‘count twos’,” Crosswell said. “And it appears she has to go this alone, because no one else in the office is willing to do it.”