James Comey spent months lecturing the country about Hillary Clinton’s email practices.
He claimed the FBI held everyone to the same standard when it came to classified information.
But James Comey got caught red-handed using one dirty trick that left Trump vindicated.
Comey’s inner circle used private emails for "unauthorized disclosure" to media
Newly declassified FBI memos just dropped a bombshell that exposes the stunning hypocrisy of James Comey and his cronies at the FBI.
The same guy who refused to charge Hillary Clinton for using private emails to handle classified information was running his own private email operation to leak sensitive information to reporters.
And the timing couldn’t be more perfect for vindicating Donald Trump’s long-standing claims about FBI corruption.
The "Tropic Vortex" investigation reveals the real scandal
FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi just declassified memos from a criminal investigation codenamed "Tropic Vortex" that shows how Comey’s inner circle operated.
The investigation found that Comey’s chief of staff, James Rybicki, forwarded communications to his personal email account "in furtherance of an unauthorized disclosure" to journalists.
This happened in March 2017, right after Trump tweeted that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
The FBI’s Washington Field Office determined that Rybicki was acting "at the implicit direction of Comey" when he sent that information to his private email to facilitate leaking to reporters.
But here’s where it gets really rich – when investigators wanted to pursue this criminal probe, federal prosecutors shut it down.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. "issued a prosecutorial declination decision for TROPIC VORTEX," according to the FBI memo.
So let me get this straight: Comey spent 2016 telling the country that Hillary’s private email server was just "extremely careless," but when his own staff got caught using private emails to leak information, prosecutors wouldn’t even let investigators examine those emails.
Comey’s team had a system for bypassing official channels
The memos show this wasn’t some one-off mistake.
Rybicki deliberately forwarded a "proposed statement to the news media" from Comey to his personal email account so it could be leaked to The New York Times.
This was a coordinated effort to get around official FBI communication channels and feed information directly to friendly reporters.
The FBI field office "assessed Rybicki did so in furtherance of a potentially unauthorized disclosure to the news media, which appeared to be at the implicit direction of Comey."
Translation: Comey was running his own shadow PR operation using private emails while publicly claiming the FBI didn’t leak.
The same standard Comey demanded for others didn’t apply to him
Remember, this is the same James Comey who stood at that podium in July 2016 and lectured the country about how "no reasonable prosecutor" would charge Hillary Clinton despite evidence she violated laws governing classified information.
He made a big show about how the FBI treats everyone equally under the law.
But when his own people got caught doing essentially the same thing – using private communications to handle sensitive government information – suddenly the rules didn’t matter.
Federal prosecutors wouldn’t even let investigators get access to those private emails, even though they had secured a preservation order based on evidence of potential crimes.
Here’s what this really shows about the Deep State
The pattern couldn’t be clearer if it came with neon lights.
When Democrats like Hillary Clinton mishandle classified information, Comey finds creative ways to let them off the hook.
When Comey’s own inner circle uses private emails to leak sensitive information to reporters, prosecutors decline to pursue charges.
But when Donald Trump fights back against this corrupt system, suddenly everyone in Washington pretends he’s the problem.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley nailed it when he said this validates Trump’s decision to fire Comey back in 2017.
"Time and again, the curtain has been pulled back to reveal Comey’s self-serving, ‘rules for thee and not for me’ attitude," Grassley stated.
The man spent years positioning himself as some kind of Boy Scout defender of justice while running his own leak operation through private emails.
This vindicates everything Trump said about FBI corruption
Trump has been saying for years that the FBI under Comey was corrupt and politicized.
The political establishment, the media, and Never-Trump Republicans all claimed he was just whining about legitimate investigations.
But these newly declassified memos prove Trump was right all along.
Comey wasn’t some principled law enforcement officer standing up to political pressure.
He was a swamp creature who applied one set of rules to his political enemies and a completely different set to himself and his allies.
The guy who claimed he never authorized leaks to reporters was literally directing his staff to use private emails to facilitate those exact leaks.
The real scandal is how long this was covered up
The most infuriating part isn’t even Comey’s hypocrisy – it’s how the Justice Department and FBI worked to bury this evidence for years.
The memos show that investigators found clear evidence of potential crimes, but prosecutors repeatedly shut down efforts to hold anyone accountable.
This is the same pattern we’ve seen with Hunter Biden’s laptop, Hillary’s server, and every other scandal involving Democrat politicians and their Deep State allies.
They create elaborate investigations that go nowhere, issue strongly worded reports that change nothing, and make sure no one important ever faces real consequences.
Meanwhile, they spend four years trying to destroy Donald Trump with bogus prosecutions and endless harassment.
The American people deserve better than this two-tiered system of justice.
And they’re finally getting it with leaders like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi who are willing to declassify the truth instead of hiding it.
¹ Steven Richards and John Solomon, "Months after probing Clinton server scandal, Comey’s FBI had its own private email issue, memos say," Just the News, August 26, 2025.
