The Trump administration has filed a damning motion pushing back against disgraced former FBI Director James Comey’s request for his criminal case to be dropped.
“The filing, in Federal District Court in Alexandria, Va., was styled as a rebuttal of Mr. Comey’s claims that the charges he is facing should be thrown out as an act of vindictive prosecution by the Trump administration,” according to the New York Times.
The filing included evidence proving that Comey had leaked information to the media during President Donald Trump’s first term in office through a confidant named Daniel C. Richman.
But according to attorney Mike Davis, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, the evidence presented against Comey went way beyond him just leaking information to the media.
For example, one exhibit released by prosecutors showed “Comey’s knowledge of — and even participation in — the Russian collusion criminal conspiracy against Trump.”
Trump U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan files public response to James Comey’s motion to dismiss his indictment for vindictive prosecution.
Exhibit 13 includes bombshell, damning evidence of then-FBI Director Comey’s handwritten note–on FBI director letterhead–evidencing… pic.twitter.com/IsRwSZDg7P
— Mike Davis (@mrddmia) November 3, 2025
Another shocking exhibit showed Comey writing an email prior to the 2016 presidential election, musing about how he hoped his decision on some matter would appease a future President-elect Clinton.
Moreover, the email was written using a burner email account and fake alias — almost as if Comey was trying to hide something.
Exhibit 5 gets worse.
James Comey, from his burner gmail with his alias Reinhold Niebuhr, states:
to me
No need. At this point it would shouting into the wind. Some day they will figure it out. And as Jack and Ben point out, my decision will be one a president elect Clinton… pic.twitter.com/8tdx74YoHo
— Mike Davis (@mrddmia) November 3, 2025
Another exhibit showed Comey expressing joy and happiness after he’d helped the New York Times produce a 2016 election eve hit piece on then-GOP presidential nominee Trump.
“Well done my friend. Who knew this would. E so uh fun,” the practically illiterate then-director wrote in the email to his confidant, Richman.
In Exhibit 7, in response to planting a New York Times election-eve hit piece against Trump, then-FBI Director James Comey tells FBI special government employee Daniel Richman:
“Well done my friend. Who knew this would. E so uh fun.” pic.twitter.com/brdgQEyywf
— Mike Davis (@mrddmia) November 3, 2025
The next exhibit provided concrete proof of FBI special government employee Daniel Richman, also known as “Michael Garcia,” anonymously leaking information to the Times on behalf of Comey.
Recall that Comey later testified to Congress that he’d had no part in this.
Exhibit 10 shows FBI special government employee Daniel Richman (aka “Michael Garcia”) is leaking–as an anonymous source–to New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt on behalf of then-FBI Director James Comey.
Comey testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee he never did this. pic.twitter.com/zSkOrEPLwq
— Mike Davis (@mrddmia) November 3, 2025
“Director Comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?” Comey was asked by congressional Republicans during a May 3, 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
“Never,” Comey replied.
“Question two, relatively related, have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?” he was then asked.
“No,” he again reiterated.
With the newly declassified records via @FBIDirectorKash into media leaks and the role of third parties,
Director Comey’s 2017 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about leaks appears problematic.@ChuckGrassley : Director Comey have you ever been an anonymous source in… pic.twitter.com/i2m6aRFCaj
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) August 14, 2025
The indictment against Comey primarily concerns these sorts of obvious lies that he told to congressional Republicans during not only the May hearing but also a hearing in September.
During the September hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz asked Comey whether he’d authorized someone at the FBI “to be an anonymous source in news reports.”
Comey again said no, though the evidence now makes it clear that he’d indeed done so.
The former FBI director’s lawyers have blamed the “no” on Cruz’s question allegedly being confusing.
“Mr. Comey’s lawyers have attacked the indictment — as well as Mr. Cruz’s question — as imprecise and confusing,” according to the Times.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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