That testimony is backed up by a Justice Department report that found Deputy FBI Director Andy McCabe was the one who authorized the leak and informed Comey afterward.Comey’s second charge, obstruction, is tied to the first, in that he supposedly obstructed the congressional proceeding through his alleged false statements.Even many conservative legal experts are skeptical of the indictment.In fact, National Review’s Andrew McCarthy wrote, “We must resort to reporting about what’s in the indictment, rather than just reading the indictment itself, because the charge is so poorly drafted that it’s not entirely clear what Comey is alleged to have lied about.”Putting the legitimacy of Comey’s actions as FBI director aside, because it doesn’t really matter to my point, I find it rather hard to believe that such a mundane case would be brought against anyone other than one of Trump’s long-standing political opponents. The conservative case that Trump was targetedIf Trump’s genuine priority were ensuring that the persecution of conservatives through weaponized government stop, wouldn’t his utmost priority be dismantling the tools through which his enemies can do that? Instead, the priority of the Trump administration is retribution for the unfair treatment he believes he has gone through. He could not care less about everyone else. This isn’t to say that none of Trump’s complaints with the ways in which Democrats and their allies went after him are justified; I actually agree with him on a fair number of abuses of power from Democrats. Namely, I was a vocal critic of Bragg’s decision to prosecute Trump over hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.In fact, the Comey indictment is more or less a mirror image of the one that the Manhattan district attorney brought against Trump, in the sense that in both cases, prosecutors have chosen their defendant and settled on a charge after the fact.Trump’s actions only continue the cycle of lawfareThough many conservatives warned Democrats and their allies at the time against it, Bragg certainly did not listen and decided to string together a case against Trump that stretched the fabric of the law. For those who don’t remember, Trump was charged with falsifying business records in New York in 2023.