‘Trump will probably come after me again’: Comey reacts to criminal case dismissal

Published November 24, 2025 4:57pm ET



Former FBI Director James Comey said Monday that he expects President Donald Trump to continue targeting him after a federal judge threw out the criminal indictment against him. The judge ruled that Trump’s handpicked prosecutor had no lawful authority to bring the case.

In a video posted to Instagram shortly after the decision, Comey said he was “grateful that the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence and incompetence.”

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