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The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is a welcome development for anyone who believes in equal justice under the law — and proof that no one should be above accountability. A federal grand jury in Virginia returned charges alleging false statements and obstruction related to his 2020 testimony, a case that has now moved from headlines to the courthouse. This moment is not about partisan glee; it’s about restoring trust in institutions that elites long treated as their private fiefdom.
Yet the circumstances around the indictment expose a raw political reality: the timing and personnel changes smell of politics. The push to charge Comey followed public pressure from former President Trump and the installation of an interim U.S. attorney with close ties to the administration after a career prosecutor declined to bring charges, raising legitimate questions about whether the rules were bent to get the result some in power demanded. Americans who watched the last decade of selective enforcement have every right to ask whether this is true accountability or payback dressed up as justice.
Meanwhile, the left and many in the mainstream media who spent years accusing President Trump of “weaponizing” the DOJ have fallen eerily silent or suddenly cheerful now that the shoe is on the other foot. The same voices that called for prosecutions of Trump-era officials only when it fit their narrative now scramble to spin and minimize when one of their own is charged. That double standard corrodes public confidence and proves what conservatives long warned: elite institutions operate by one set of rules for insiders and another for everyone else.
Conservative commentators like Michael Shellenberger and hosts such as Megyn Kelly have rightly called out this hypocrisy, contrasting feverish media campaigns against Trump with the muted, revisionist coverage of Comey’s alleged crimes. Their conversations have underscored how the narrative changes depending on who’s accused, not on the merits of the case — a reality the mainstream refuses to admit because its preferred players are involved. If the press were truly committed to truth instead of tribe, they would treat both incidents with the same rigor and skepticism.
We should also be clear-eyed about the legal concerns raised by career prosecutors who reportedly questioned the sufficiency of the evidence before higher-ups pushed the indictment forward. If the evidence is strong, let the trial proceed and let the American people see it; if it’s thin, then the decision to prosecute will only prove the worst suspicions about politicized justice. Conservatives demand a fair system — not one that uses criminal referrals as a cudgel or a prize to be handed out when the political winds shift.
This episode must be a turning point: either our country returns to principled, colorblind enforcement of the law, or we admit that men and women in power play by different rules. Patriots who love this country should press for transparency, insist that career professionals make charging decisions free from political interference, and hold the media to account for its glaring double standards. Only then can we begin to repair the institutions that once earned Americans’ trust and make sure justice is truly blind.
