James Comey cautioned about a “serious threat” to public confidence in federal law enforcement following the dismissal of his daughter, Maurene Comey, from her position as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
In a video shared on Substack on Sunday, the former FBI director, who was dismissed by Donald Trump for misconduct during his first term, responded to his daughter’s termination last week, reiterating a familiar Democratic narrative that the president is persistently “attacking” the DOJ and compromising its autonomy.
Maurene Comey most recently oversaw the prosecution of hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and previously played a significant role in the prominent cases against Jeffrey Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell,