Comey said in the video that he wants a trial, but every lawyer seems to think he’d be making a huge mistake if he doesn’t simply move to dismiss, since there is absolutely no case.
When Comey’s attorneys get access to the grand jury transcript, there’s even a possibility of huge repercussions for Lindsey Halligan, if she didn’t, for example, tell the grand jury that the star witness has already gone on the record as saying that the particulars in the indictment didn’t actually happen.
Could him going on trial be a way to expose new information about Trump or someone else that wasn’t possible before?
He can let the cat out of the bag as part of his defense kinda thing.
A plurality, 33%, described it as politically motivated, while 22% labeled it as an earnest attempt to expose the truth. Fourteen percent said both of these were factors, and 30% said they were not sure.
Most Democrats and a plurality of independents — 56% and 33%, respectively — characterized the indictment as driven by politics. A 41% plurality of Republicans said it is a serious endeavor.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article312272042.html
I assume the admin will seek to make this process take as long as they possibly can to make comey retain a lawyer indefinitely
If Trump says a person did something, they almost certainly did the opposite of that, based on the track record
