Ex-US attorney buries 'ridiculous' prosecution of Comey by Trump's 'preschool' lawyers
At the same time that former FBI Director James Comey was entering a not guilty plea in a Virginia courtroom, former judge and U.S. Attorney Carol Lam was on MSNBC saying Donald Trump’s DOJ was setting itself up for a major defeat.
Speaking with host Anna Cabrera, the legal expert zeroed in on the fact that not one prosecutor from the Eastern District of Virginia’s U.S. Attorney's office would agree to be in court to present the charges.
Instead, Pam Bondi’s DOJ recruited Nathaniel Tyler Lemons and Gabriel Diaz from North Carolina to assist former insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan, who stumbled through her grand jury presentation.
Asked about the proceedings at the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse on Wednesday, Lam claimed bringing in outside prosecutors with no familiarity with the case is a disaster in the making.
“This is very concerning, Anna, because, you know, by the time we get to federal court, you like to think that there's some maturity going on,” she told the host. “What's going on now? Really sounds like a preschool or kindergarten — you've got a government team that has not worked together, not worked in that district, not appeared before that judge, not worked with the FBI agents who are investigating the case and that's a big concern.”
Adding, “That's like having a surgical team that has never worked together before,” she elaborated, “The fact that Pat Fitzgerald, who is Jim Comey's defense attorney, has not seen not only not seen the evidence in the case, but can't even figure out from the indictment what the charges are is very concerning.”
“I'm not I'm not given to hyperbole, but this is ridiculous,” she complained. “The whole purpose of an indictment is to give notice to the defendant about what the charges against him or her is — the fact is that somebody as experienced as Pat, and even as experienced as Jim cannot figure out what the charges are.”
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