This is clearly bait for Democrats, hoping to divide party supporters against Comey [View all]

False statement charge against Comey appears to center on Hillary Clinton email probe

The alleged leak to the media that underpins the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey appears to relate to the 2016 investigation concerning Hillary Clinton, rather than the separate 2016 FBI investigation of Donald Trump and Russian election meddling.

Prosecutors say in the indictment they believe Comey had authorized an anonymous leak to the press about an FBI investigation. The indictment then accuses him of lying under oath to the Senate in 2020 when he was asked whether he had authorized a leak, and he testified he hadn’t.

But officials and people involved in the case tell CNN the false statement charge appears to center on alleged leaks for news articles about the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton and her use of a private email server.

For Trump, Comey’s handling of the investigation into him and his campaign has been at the top of the agenda. He has accused Comey of being corrupt and of damaging his first term by leaking against him. That the two counts Comey faces may be instead about alleged leaks related to the Clinton investigation represents the irony of the latest developments. Clinton has long accused Comey of damaging her campaign and swinging the election to Trump.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/false-statement-charge-against-comey-201614819.html

...this report dances around the fuckery staring us right in the face of this manipulative administration believing they can splinter off support from Democrats based on their antipathies and objections to Comey and the role he played in advantaging Trump in that election.

To not see this would require believing the DOJ packed with Trump sycophants gives a shit about Comey lying about Hillary and disadvantaging her in that election.

This is a cynical, but easy challenge to Democrats to see if their principles about Trump's corrupt use of the federal government against people he opposes politically will bend to cheer on that illegal exercise against their own political foe.

It's actually the best case scenario for Democrats because, it's an opportunity to demonstrate that we will defend even the rights of our political rivals, or those we politically disagree with, against the federal government acting precipitously and personally against them.