A leading US free-expression group has hit out at federal prosecutors’ use of a novel written by former FBI director James Comey in their case accusing him of threatening to kill Donald Trump.
“Citing a novel to save an indictment that is constitutionally dubious is a desperate Hail Mary and should be rejected,” said a statement posted on Friday by Mara Gassmann, legal director of PEN America, using a term for a last-second heave in American football.
Prosecutors with the Trump administration-led justice department had argued in a filing days earlier that Comey sent coded messages to his followers suggesting they kill an enemy of his citing the fictional protagonist – a federal prosecutor – in his novel FDR Drive.
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My GAWD!! They’re STILL trying to screw in this nail? What a fucking joke. That they can’t see how ridiculous this makes them look just shows how bad their tunnel vision really is.
They didn’t let the Garcia thing go either
Or fauci
They don’t care how ridicoulus they look because it’s all theater for their brain-dead audience anyway.
Remember when Blanche said we aren’t doing the Epstein files because the DoJ has more important stuff to do?
Sounds like they just plan to waste the court’s time by adding a literal novel to be reviewed.
I’m sure the judge will love being forced to do more work.
his followers
