Former FBI Director James Comey on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss his criminal case, arguing that he is being vindictively prosecuted because of President Donald Trump’s animus toward him.
Comey, in a pair of motions for dismissal filed in federal court in eastern Virginia, also argued that the indictment against him is fatally flawed because his prosecutor, interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, was appointed unlawfully.
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