Former FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Comey has maintained his innocence, and he is expected to enter a not guilty plea at the hearing.
What remains to be seen is whether James Comey will actually face an arrest and perp walk when he appears in court. It’s probably unlikely, given reports that he’ll show up voluntarily — but let’s be honest, the optics would be fitting.
And current FBI Director Kash Patel isn’t about to let the media clowns spin this as “unprecedented.” The same pundits who cheered when Trump allies were dragged out of their homes at dawn suddenly have delicate sensibilities now that one of their own might face a moment of accountability. The double standard couldn’t be clearer.
Prior to Comey’s arraignment, former House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes appeared on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo to share his thoughts on the case against Comey and discuss potential repercussions for him and his associates (starting around the 1-minute mark):
Today, exclusively on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo, Former House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes @DevinNunes spoke about former FBI Director James Comey set to be arraigned this Thursday.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/kIkT7NPNUt
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) October 5, 2025
BARTIROMO: I wanna get your expectation of more charges to come against Jim Comey and more of his colleagues who worked on the Russia collusion story — pushed it through across the world. What are you expecting?
NUNES: Look, I’m expecting a full investigation. If you look at the transparency that’s been brought by the intelligence agencies under Trump — unprecedented level of transparency, where we’re now finally getting out documents that the American people had never seen. So, I think you’re beginning to see real clear clairvoyance on what happened between 2016 all the way to the Mar-a-Lago raid. And I think that’s where — culminating with the Mar-a-Lago raid — is where I think I really still have a lot of questions of documents that really need to get out there. And I think an investigation needs to kind of start there and go back, because we know for sure what happened in 2016 that Comey was well aware of is that this was all — the whole Russia Hoax — was designed to get Trump, because they were worried about the “her emails” coming public back in 2016 before the election. So, I think we have real clairvoyance there, Maria — you’ve covered on your show for many, many years.
Where we still are missing information is, you know: How was Jack Smith appointed to go after Trump in ’22? Who decided to raid Mar-a-Lago? What documents were they looking for? These are all the questions that still remain to be answered, and I think where the investigators need to start — from there and then go back.
Bartiromo then asked about the notion of a gigantic deep-state conspiracy:
BARTIROMO: What is different about “grand conspiracy”? What does “grand conspiracy” tell us — if, in fact, they are able to put the puzzle together, that, yes, this has been a conspiracy since 2015?
NUNES: Well, I think you just have to ask yourself the common-sense question is: Was it a conspiracy or not? And clearly, unless you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere, this has been a conspiracy to weaponize the U.S. intelligence agencies against the most popular Republican since Ronald Reagan — that is President Trump. He became very popular in 2016, was a popular president, remains popular, was reelected president. It was all designed to target and take down one of your political enemies, so much so that they actually raided his home — his private — a private home of a former president at that time.
I mean, these are not things that allow a republic to be in a situation where it can withstand the long run, if you have intelligence agencies that are effectively working with the fake news, working with nonprofits, all to benefit one political party. And that’s what you had, so it was a conspiracy; it is a conspiracy. And so, whether or not you can make those charges, I’m not a lawyer, never been a prosecutor, but I’ve done a lot of these investigations. And to me, really what matters is the court of public opinion; what matters are the statutes and law.
And I would —from my vantage point, it’s pretty clear that there was a conspiracy on a number of fronts: most importantly, I think lying and misleading — I think that’s a keyword, misleading — Congress and other investigations. As you know, there were, I don’t know, some five different investigations that occurred over the last seven years…as it relates to the Russia Hoax, Ukraine Impeachment Hoax, and all the other hoaxes that did what? Targeted President Trump‘s family.
Nunes also pointed out the difference in transparency during the Trump administration:
BARTIROMO: And I talked with you throughout this ten-year period, over and over again, and I remember many years ago, you would say, “We’ve asked them for these documents. We’ve asked them for that document.” And they sat on it and waited and did not give you the documents as chairman of the Intelligence Committee, or ranking member as the Intelligence Committee. You demanded these documents. Tell us how, specifically, Jim Comey and others may have misled you and the Congress.
NUNES: Yeah, well, I can say this: Those days are over, right? Now the president has made me the chair of his intelligence board. We are working to help declassify where we can all the information that you now are seeing come out. Where I think you — where it’s pretty clear — is is let’s talk about two interesting dates, Maria: One was in August of 2016 in the Obama White House with Biden and a bunch of other cast of characters there — including Comey, including Brennan — where, where they are told by Brennan that, “Hey, there’s a hoax going on” (that’s my word), you know that “basically they’re looking — the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC — are looking to frame President Trump,” or, at that time, candidate-Trump, “with this Clinton email scandal. If and when these emails come out, they wanted to make it look like it was the Trump campaign working with Putin.”
They knew that in August of ’16. Now, how is it possible that all of these cast of characters that were interviewed by multiple — not only the House Intelligence Committee, but also in the Senate and Horowitz and…all the way to Durham — they had amnesia, just forgot about this? All those years went by, and they don’t remember that this was a cover-up for the Hillary Clinton email campaign? Nonsense. We know that’s not true. They had to have known it.
So, what’s the other important date? The other important date is in August, ironically, almost six years to the day, August of 2022, where they raid Mar-a-Lago. Many of the same people were involved in that — not Comey, because he had been fired — but others who had been in the first Obama term, all the way through, were then put into the Biden term. I mean, people like Lisa Monaco, who was the deputy attorney general. I find it hard to believe that she didn’t — that she was not behind and had knowledge about what happened at the raid of Mar-a-Lago.
Because I believe that Garland, although maybe he knew about it after the fact, but if you remember, he didn’t seem to know much, and they didn’t find what they were looking for because it took him three days after this magnificent raid with all the cameras there that clearly were tipped off about this Mar-a-Lago raid happening on President Trump — miraculously they didn’t find anything and it took Garland three days before he came out and made a statement.
Much of Devin Nunes’ commentary on Sunday went beyond the immediate Comey indictment, but it underscored a broader point — that Comey and his inner circle were deeply involved from the very beginning. The question now is whether more indictments are coming.
Nunes seemed to hint that this isn’t the end of the story — that there could be additional criminal exposure for a conspiracy that stretched well into 2022. If that’s the case, some of the key players who’ve been banking on the statute of limitations to shield them might soon find themselves, to put it bluntly, s**t out of luck.
