2 weeks after Sean “Diddy” Combs’ stunning upset victory in his federal legal intercourse trafficking trial, the Trump administration has fired the case’s lead prosecutor, Maurene Comey.
Comey, because it occurs, embodied a number of unlikely coincidences throughout the administration. Before everything she is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired in 2017 over the bureau’s investigation of the president’s alleged ties to Russia. She additionally labored on the federal case in opposition to Jeffery Epstein earlier than his demise by an obvious suicide in 2019, and later led the profitable prosecution in opposition to Epstein’s confederate, Ghislaine Maxwell.
It’s unclear if Comey was fired particularly over the result of the Combs trial. However in line with ABC Information, Donald Trump has privately expressed anger about having a member of the Comey household working in his administration. The failure to safe conviction in opposition to the rap mogul on all however 2 minor costs might have supplied justification.
Combs confronted a number of severe costs that might have seen him sentenced to life in jail. However on July 2, the jury discovered him not responsible of racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking costs, and solely convicted him on two minor prostitution costs.
Epstein in the meantime is again within the information attributable to a serious schism throughout the Republican Get together brought on by the abrupt declaration final week from Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi that the billionaire intercourse offender by no means stored an inventory of shoppers or different incriminating blackmail info. Simply months earlier Bondi declared authoritatively that she was in actual fact in possession of that checklist and would launch it quickly.
Since then, Trump himself has tried to downplay and even dismiss Epstein’s significance, and core supporters have since been rocked by infighting even on the highest ranges of the celebration. For examples, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino reportedly threatened to step down over Bondi’s declare, and several other distinguished proper wing media personalities have argued bitterly over the matter.
