Former FBI Director James Comey posts video after indictment: 'I am innocent'

[ad_1] In a video posted following his two-count indictment by a federal grand jury, former FBI Director James Comey says he's harmless.

"My coronary heart is damaged for the Division of Justice. I've nice confidence within the federal judicial system and I'm harmless, so let's have a trial, and hold the religion," Comey mentioned within the transient video posted to his Instagram account.

It isn't clear when the video was recorded.

Former FBI Director James Comey testifies earlier than the Senate Choose Committee on Intelligence listening to on Capitol Hill, June 8, 2017.

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"My household and I've identified for years that there are prices for standing as much as Donald Trump, however we could not think about ourselves dwelling some other method. We is not going to dwell on our knees and also you should not both," Comey mentioned within the video.

"Any person that I really like dearly lately mentioned that worry is the device of a tyrant and he or she is true," Comey mentioned, referring to a press release his daughter, Maurene Comey, made in a farewell electronic mail to her colleagues after being fired from the U.S. Lawyer's Workplace for the Southern District of New York this summer time. "However I'm not afraid, and I hope you aren't both. I hope as an alternative you might be engaged, you might be paying consideration and you'll vote like the one you love nation relies upon upon it, which it does."

Comey was indicted on expenses of constructing a false assertion and obstruction associated to his testimony earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020.

The indictment got here simply days after President Donald Trump issued a public demand for his Justice Division to behave "now" to carry prosecutions in opposition to Comey and different political foes.

Following his indictment, Comey's son-in-law Troy Edwards Jr. resigned his put up as a nationwide safety prosecutor within the Jap District of Virginia, in line with an electronic mail obtained by ABC Information.

"To uphold my oath to the Structure and nation, I hereby resign as an Assistant United States Lawyer for the Jap District of Virginia within the Division of Justice efficient instantly," Edwards wrote.