Hey, this is Trey. Thank you for joining us for a Tuesday edition of our podcast. Happy last day of

September to you. Autumn is in the air, my favorite time in the year and happens to be the

season of life. Many of us are in, metaphorically speaking. With that, two things. One I should talk about and the other I

really want to talk about. Now that Jim Comey is indicted, what happens now? Before we get to the

mechanics of what will happen, let's at least understand where we are and how we got here. Criminal

trials are not referenda on the person as a

whole. The indictment does not allege James Comey was a bad FBI director who did perhaps irreparable

damage to the FBI, although both of those may very well be true. Criminal charges are limited in time and scope.

And most of my interactions with James Comey were before Trump won the presidency. I was a little

surprised. He kept him on as FBI director. I was thinking John Rackleff would be a good one, but in hindsight, you know,

everybody is a genius. I mean, hindsight's 2020. Neither President Trump nor anyone else knew or

really could have known all of Comey's acts of commission or omission at the time President Trump decided to keep him.

I remember actually where I was when I heard that Comey had been fired.

I was in a hotel room in Columbia, South America, not Columbia, South Carolina,

Columbia, South America on a trip with the now House Intel chair, Rick Crawford,

looking at narco-terrorism and drug trafficking. Be that as it may, indictments are not a trial about

whether someone did a good job or was a good person or general evaluations of that person. They

are specific allegations of wrongdoing, which must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

Comey is charged with two different but related crimes, making a false statement during a Senate hearing and thereby obstructing a Senate investigation.

Now, there are statutes of limitation on nearly all crimes

in federal system. So no prosecutors and agents cannot go back and charge things that happened

in 2016, 2017, anything really before September, what, now 30th, 2020, which is five years removed from today.

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