Donald Trump didn’t waste a second celebrating the indictment of his longtime nemesis James Comey. By Friday morning, he was already on Truth Social, dropping a new nickname and raging against the judge assigned to the case.
“Whether you like Corrupt James Comey or not, and I can’t imagine too many people liking him, HE LIED!” Trump wrote, responding to the news that the former FBI Director had been indicted for false statements made during 2020 congressional testimony. “It is not a complex lie, it’s a very simple, but IMPORTANT one. There is no way he can explain his way out of it.”
Trump, who had called for Comey’s prosecution just days earlier, claimed vindication while launching into the kind of all-caps tirade that’s become a staple of his social media presence.
He also debuted a new nickname for Comey: “Dirty Cop.”
“James ‘Dirty Cop’ Comey was a destroyer of lives,” Trump wrote. “He knew exactly what he was saying, and that it was a very serious and far reaching lie for which a very big price must be paid!”
Comey has been a favorite target of Trump’s ever since the FBI launched its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election — an investigation that shadowed much of Trump’s presidency. The president fired Comey in 2017 and has since blamed him for helping fuel what he calls the “Russia hoax.”
But Trump wasn’t just taking a victory lap. He turned his fire on the judge assigned to the case, pointing out — with clear disapproval — that the judge had been nominated by President Joe Biden.
He wrote that Comey “was appointed a judge who was nominated by former President Joe Biden, so he was ‘off to a very good start.’” Trump has repeatedly claimed that the justice system is stacked against him by Democratic appointees — a message he’s now applying to Comey’s case as well.
And he capped it all off with a familiar, furious send-off: “JAMES COMEY IS A DIRTY COP. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Neither Comey nor the DOJ has responded publicly to Trump’s posts. But if history is any guide, this won’t be the last time Trump weaponizes the case for political ammunition — or merchandising.
