{"id":16217,"date":"2025-09-26T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=16217"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:41:20","slug":"der-fall-comey-trumps-rachefeldzug-gegen-den-rechtsstaat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/der-fall-comey-trumps-rachefeldzug-gegen-den-rechtsstaat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Comey Case \u2013 Trump\u2019s Revenge Campaign Against the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"


The indictment against James Comey reads like a document from an authoritarian handbook: barely two pages, brought by a newly installed Trump loyalist with no notable prosecutorial experience, and yet a thunderclap. On the evening of September 25, 2025, the former FBI director was indicted before a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, for making false statements and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Officially, it concerns a short passage of his testimony before the Senate in 2020. In truth, it is the fulfillment of a long-held revenge promise by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For years, Comey has been considered one of the president\u2019s arch-enemies - the man who dared to set the FBI on the trail of suspected Russian ties to Trump\u2019s campaign. Now, just in time before the statute of limitations on his earlier testimony expired, the justice system, under direct pressure from the president, is ready to push through a politically motivated indictment. Career prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia had considered the case far too weak. But they were overruled - by Lindsey Halligan, a Trump defense lawyer with no notable prosecutorial background, who had been personally installed by Trump at the head of the prosecutor\u2019s office only days before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scene in Alexandria shows how fragile the protective walls against political interference have become. A grand jury, led by a political attorney, an indictment that hardly goes beyond generalities - and yet it is the most serious attack by the Trump administration on a senior critic since the beginning of the second term. Even the judge at the federal court in Alexandria expressed irritation: parts of the requested charges had been rejected by the jury, others - vaguely worded and forced through by loyalists - were adopted. \u201cThis has never happened before,\u201d she is said to have remarked in the courtroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n