James Comey has a chance to make his indictment 'blow up in Trump's face': ex-DOJ official

Newly-appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan’s indictment of James Comey is so flawed and likely to be tossed immediately that it will hand the former FBI director an opportunity to embarrass Donald Trump.

That is the opinion of Andrew Weissmann, the former chief of the Fraud Section at the DOJ, who appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday morning.

Speaking with the hosts, Weissmann admitted he was stunned that Halligan had to present her case to a grand jury herself, a task normally assigned to a prosecutor in her office, and suggested Comey should attack the charges head-on and as swiftly as possible.

Pointing out that the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney prior to Halligan chose “to resign rather than bring this case,” Weissmann added, “And so that should give everyone pause. It is so unusual for anyone to resign over something like this.”

“And we have seen it over and over in Trump 2.0, where career people and now even a political appointee of Donald Trump himself saying, ‘I can't stomach this,'” he continued. "And so for both of those reasons, this seems extraordinarily thin.”

“What I am waiting for is whether James Comey's defense team asks for an immediate trial,” he proposed. “Because, if this really is as thin as we suspect, that's something they could do. And that, I think, could sort of blow up in Donald Trump's face having gone this far.“

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