FBI Declassified Docs Expose That James Comey’s Firing Unleashed Deep State Plot
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Newly released FBI documents reveal that the Deep State FBI opened a probe into President Donald Trump after he fired former FBI Director James Comey. The investigation, known as “Oxferd Comma,” looked to trace Comey’s firing to an alleged collusion between Trump and Russia.
As stated by the official White House release:
The FBI opened a criminal probe specifically targeting Donald Trump in May 2017, alleging the newly elected president may have been acting as a Russian asset when he fired then-Director James Comey even though the bureau’s own evidence overwhelmingly showed at the time there was no collusion with the Kremlin.
Internal FBI memos newly declassified by the White House show the investigation – codenamed Oxferd Comma – was launched in the immediate aftermath of Comey’s May 9, 2017 firing and was predicated on an allegation that previously released records show the bureau’s own agents had mostly dismissed.
“The FBI is opening a full investigation based on an articulable factual basis that reasonably indicates that President Donald J. Trump may be or has been, wittingly or unwittingly, involved in activities for or on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation which may constitute violations of federal criminal law or threats to the national security of the United States,” the electronic communication opening the probe on May 16, 2017 stated.
“The goal of the investigation is to determine if President Trump is or was directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with, the Russian Federation in a manner constituting a threat to the national security of the United States and/or a violation of federal criminal statutes,” it added. “In addition, this investigation will also seek to determine whether President Trump and others yet to be named obstructed and/or conspiracy to obstruct any associated FBI investigation.”
The memo, written by the FBI’s counterintelligence division and approved by then-FBI General Counsel James Baker and then-Assistant Director for Counterintelligence William Priestap, made clear the concerns about Russian influence and obstruction included Comey’s firing, in part because of the public explanations Trump gave for it.
“This alternative explanation can be reasonably read to imply that the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation was a factor in President Trump’s decision to terminate Comey,” the memo stated.
Both the Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein were advised that the probe had been launched, the memos show.
OXFERD COMMA – FBI Informs DOJ
The FBI marked the investigation as a “sensitive investigative matter” and declared it was “the least intrusive method to address the serious national security risk posed by the activities alleged.”
But that decision proved anything but nonintrusive: it prompted the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller by Rosenstein and a nearly two-year probe that hampered the start of the Trump presidency even though Mueller’s team, like the FBI before it, was unable to substantiate any collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election.
And no, that’s not a misspelling. The investigation was, in fact, called “Oxferd Comma.” We don’t know the reasoning for that spelling, but the FBI specifically probed to see if President Trump was an active Russian agent or was being controlled by Russia. And when did they decide to do this? After President Trump fired their boss: James Comey.
My dad, ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow, joined the broadcast to break down what the FBI was doing:
This one looks like a sub-investigation under Crossfire Hurricane but was related to the termination of James Comey as the FBI Director, which, by the way, the President has the full authority to do because the FBI Director works for the President.
So, this was another attempt to target the President of the United States, labeling him basically an enemy of the United States and an asset of the Russian government. . . . They kept it offline, which meant that it was only available to be reviewed by very few agents, hoping nobody would find it. And, of course, fortunately it was declassified, and now we know what we’ve got. These agencies are totally out of control, and that’s why at the ACLJ, we have a Government Accountability Project that even now is very busy.
My dad also likened this situation to a case the ACLJ fought and won against the Deep State IRS for targeting conservative organizations and citizens:
This is the problem we had with the IRS. It was almost an institution incapable of self-correcting. Now, we were able to self-correct a lot of it by getting not only monetary damages in one case, but a permanent injunction in another, and it may take that here with the FBI.
This is very disheartening in the sense that there were FBI agents doing this, knowing that it was a sitting President duly elected by the citizens of the United States, and the FBI Director gets fired and they decided to target the President who fired him. I mean, think about that for a moment, and that’s why we fight back so aggressively and why we have a Government Accountability Project . . . even with an Administration that might be considered friendly, because there are Deep State activists who don’t stop.
Today’s Sekulow broadcast included more analysis of this breaking news that the Deep State FBI launched what certainly feels like a retaliatory investigation against President Trump for firing James Comey. We were also joined by ACLJ Senior Counsel Mike Pompeo.
Watch the full broadcast below: