It’s been plain from the start that the Justice Department’s prosecution of James Comey springs from Donald Trump’s desire for payback against a bitter political enemy. Exhibit A: the president’s own September 20, 2025, Truth Social post, stating exactly that. Now it seems that the DOJ has coupled bad motives with straightforward incompetence. When rookie prosecutors take over complicated cases, rookie mistakes happen.

In a blistering ruling issued this week, federal Magistrate Judge Bill Fitzpatrick peeled the bark off the prosecution’s abject mishandling of the Comey grand jury. (The decision is currently being considered by the higher-ranking district judge presiding over the case.) I know Fitzpatrick professionally. Before he took the bench he served for over 20 years at the J

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