Even Trump’s Allies Reportedly Think The Comey Indictment Is Silly: ‘Embarrassing’ | EUROtoday

Oh, to be a fly on the wall.

ABC’s Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Carl reported on “Good Morning America” Wednesday that even President Donald Trump’s allies suppose the new indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is a waste of time, and have been expressing this opinion behind the president’s again, per a video printed by Mediaite.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department indicted Comey after a grand jury in North Carolina accused him of two counts of constructing threats towards the president’s life over an Instagram submit that the previous FBI director shared nearly a 12 months in the past, and later deleted.

The submit in query included a photograph of seashells on a seashore organized to learn, “86 47.” The quantity 86 is usually used as slang for tossing one thing out or eliminating it, and is usually utilized in eating places to point a menu merchandise is now not obtainable.

“GMA” co-anchor George Stephanopoulos famous to Karl Wednesday that the “first indictment of James Comey was dismissed,” and that “lawyers close to the president” stated this indictment would possible see the identical destiny.

And that is when Karl determined to spill the tea about what sources near the president have advised him.

“I’ve been talking to current and former prosecutors, federal prosecutors who are calling this the flimsiest federal indictment that they have ever seen,” Karl stated. “Even Trump’s allies are privately calling it ‘embarrassing,’ or as one very prominent former Trump DOJ official told me last night, ‘depressing.’”

“I have spoken to no serious lawyers who think these charges will result in a conviction. The near-universal view is that it will be thrown out before it gets to trial,” Karl added.

Karl additionally disputed appearing Attorney General Todd Blanche’s declare to “CBS Mornings” Wednesday that Trump “absolutely, positively” didn’t push for Comey to be indicted.

“There is no doubt that this indictment was driven by the president himself,” Karl stated. “Look, Donald Trump has made it clear for years that he wants to indict Jim Comey. As recently as three days ago, he suggested that Comey needed to be prosecuted — although he offered an entirely different reason. And Trump has put enormous pressure on the people who work for him to go after not just Comey, but a long list of his perceived political enemies.”

He continued, “One of the main reasons that he fired Attorney General Pam Bondi is that he felt that she was not being aggressive enough in prosecuting those enemies, and Attorney General Todd Blanche knows that if he wants to be formally nominated as AG — right now he’s just the acting Attorney General — he needs to prove to President Trump that he will be more aggressive in prosecuting those enemies than Bondi was.”

He added, “And I can tell you this … shortly after that indictment was announced, Todd Blanche was at the White House meeting with senior White House officials.”