Sen. Thune: James Comey’s Indictment Is ‘Based Upon the Findings of a Grand Jury,’ Not on Trump Posting About It

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
WELKER: “So Saturday I spoke with Senate majority leader John Thune before President Trump agreed to meet congressional leaders over the shutdown. Leader thune, welcome back to “Meet the Press.””

THUNE: “Thank you, kristen. Nice to be with you.”

WELKER: “Thank you so much for being here on a big weekend. We are going to get to the funding battle on Capitol Hill in just a moment, but I do want to start with the indictment of former FBI director James Comey who is, as you know, an outspoken critic of President Trump’s and it comes as the president publicly pushed his attorney general Pam Bondi to prosecute Mr. Comey in a social media post last week. Let me ask you, leader thune, do you believe the Justice Department is acting independently here?”

THUNE: “Well, it’s based upon the findings of a grand jury, kristen. So I think that the – that was the indictment that came. It was by a jury of his peers. This is not a new subject, obviously. This is something that the Senate Judiciary Committee examined and it launched an active investigation into back in 2020. So I think these are just – this is – the courts are going to have to decide this. These are allegations and they’re not on serious allegations and there are people in the past who have gone to jail for lying to Congress. So I think – I trust the judicial system and the justice system to figure this out. Obviously, they’re going to have the final say in it.”