Former FBI director and outspoken Trump critic James Comey is expected to be indicted by the Department of Justice in the coming days.

At this point, it's not even clear what Comey would be charged with.

Sources tell MSNBC that one component may be an allegation of lying to Congress almost exactly five years ago during testimony about whether he authorized a leak.

And that five-year anniversary is actually quite important here.

Comey's congressional testimony at issue was September 30th, 2020, as you see, given there remotely,

which means that the five-year statute of limitations expires next Tuesday, September 30th, 2020.

If this Department of Justice, the Trump Department of Justice, wants to charge Comey with this

dubious crime, well, it needs to do so before that.

Both Comey's lawyer and spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office declined comment to MSNBC,

but this looks on its face like

wildly blatant abuse of the justice system, certainly far exceeding anything that we have ever

seen since Watergate, at least. It's the culmination of an explicit in the open effort to use

the Department of Justice to persecute and prosecute Trump's political

opponents and perceive them.

A zombie democracy.

And there's so many parallels.

And you talk about this, it's like Hungary.

And again, Donald Trump told us, I love Orban.

He's a strong man.

We need a leader like Orban.

Well, looks like we might get one.

Yeah, if you're waiting for, you know, goose stepping stormtroopers to go marching down Constitution Avenue.

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