FILE PHOTO: Former FBI Director, James Comey appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Hart Office Building on Thursday June 08, 2017 in Washington, DC.
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Former FBI Director James Comey is set to be arraigned Wednesday morning on criminal charges in Virginia that President Donald Trump had sought.
Comey, who is accused of making a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding during testimony to a Senate committee in 2020, denies any wrongdoing.
Comey is being arraigned in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, where he is expected to plead not guilty.
Two federal prosecutors from North Carolina have been assigned to handle Comey’s case, which is seen as a sign that Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, had difficulty getting prosecutors in her own office to work on the case.
Comey, after being indicted in late September, said, “I am not afraid,” in an Instagram video response.
“My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump,” Comey said in the video.
“But we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees and you shouldn’t either.”
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