Comey email bombshell provides the smoking gun that could land him in prison for years

James Comey thought he covered his tracks.

The former FBI Director is now finding out the hard way that wasn't the case.

And James Comey got caught in one lie after a recovered email provided the smoking gun to put him in prison for years.

Bombshell emails expose Comey's media manipulation scheme

Federal prosecutors dropped a bombshell on James Comey's criminal case that left jaws on the floor.

The Department of Justice revealed a trove of personal emails showing Comey not only knew his top aide was leaking to the media — he was actively congratulating him for it.¹

"Well done my friend," Comey wrote to Daniel Richman, his longtime confidant and Columbia Law School professor, after Richman served as an anonymous source for a New York Times article about the Hillary Clinton email investigation.²

The emails came from November 2016, just days before the presidential election.

And they reveal something even more shocking about Comey's state of mind at the time.

Comey expected to work for "President-Elect Hillary Clinton"

The smoking gun emails prove Comey believed Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election.

And he thought he'd be rewarded with a job in her administration.

"Some day they will figure it out. And as [Individual 1 and Individual 2] point out, my decision will be one a president-elect Clinton will be very grateful for (although that wasn't why I did it)," Comey wrote to Richman.³

So the FBI Director protecting Clinton's email scandal simultaneously knew about the fake plan to frame Trump as a Russian agent and expected a cushy job in the Clinton White House?

They truly never thought she would lose.

Acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan filed the emails as evidence in her response to Comey's motion to dismiss his indictment.⁴

Comey faces two federal charges — making a false statement to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation — stemming from his September 2020 Senate testimony.⁵

He swore under oath that he never authorized anyone at the FBI to serve as an anonymous source in news reports about the Clinton investigation.

The emails prove that was a lie.

Handwritten notes reveal Comey knew about Clinton's Russia collusion hoax

But the leaked emails aren't even the most damaging evidence prosecutors uncovered.

FBI Director Kash Patel discovered a hidden SCIF at FBI headquarters this year containing previously concealed documents.

Among them were handwritten notes on FBI Director letterhead showing Comey knew in September 2016 that Hillary Clinton approved a plan to "hang a fake Russian shingle on Donald Trump's campaign house."⁶

Yet when Republican Senator Lindsey Graham asked Comey under oath if he remembered being told about Clinton's approval of this plan, Comey claimed it didn't "sound familiar."⁷

That's perjury.

The evidence shows Comey wasn't duped by bad intelligence about Trump-Russia collusion.

He was part of manufacturing the hoax.

"Consistent with the above-described correspondence, Richman corresponded extensively with members of the media regarding or on behalf of the defendant, including in an anonymous capacity," DOJ prosecutors argued in their court filing.⁸

Richman wasn't just Comey's friend — he was his media mouthpiece.

The emails show Richman worked directly with New York Times journalist Mike Schmidt to publish stories shaped by Comey's office.

In February 2017, Richman even reached out to then-DOJ official Chuck Rosenberg asking if he'd talk to Schmidt about Clinton's emails.⁹

"My pal at the NYT, Mike Schmidt is (along with Apuzzo, Goldman, and (gag me) Lichtblau) is doing a huge piece on the HRC emails," Richman wrote. "He's had a ton of background conversations with players and non-players (like me)."

Prosecutors demolished Comey's vindictive prosecution defense

Comey's lawyers tried claiming he's being "vindictively" prosecuted at President Trump's orders.

The Justice Department shredded that argument.

"Through a mix of news reports, social media posts, and speculation, the defendant weaves a tale of what he calls 'glaring constitutional violations' that resulted in his indictment for making a false statement to Congress and obstructing a Congressional investigation," federal prosecutors wrote in their response.¹⁰

"When the rigorous legal standard is applied to the facts here, it is clear that the defendant has failed to show the Constitution requires the Court to take the extraordinary step of dismissing this case."

The evidence speaks for itself.

Comey authorized leaks, praised his media operative for executing them, expected a job from the candidate he was protecting, and then lied about all of it under oath to Congress.

Attorney General Pam Bondi put it simply: "No one is above the law."¹¹

For years, Comey positioned himself as the noble public servant standing up to Trump.

Now his own emails and handwritten notes expose him as a corrupt political operative who weaponized the FBI to protect Hillary Clinton and destroy Donald Trump.

The man who helped engineer the Russia collusion hoax is finally facing justice.

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¹ John Solomon, "Comey knew top aide was talking to media, emails show," Just the News, November 3, 2025.

² Daily Caller, "Comey And His Pal Celebrated Leak To NY Times In Damning Emails," November 3, 2025.

³ Gateway Pundit, "Bombshell Emails Reveal Comey Expected to Work For 'President-Elect Hillary Clinton,'" November 3, 2025.

⁴ Ibid.

⁵ NBC News, "Former FBI Director James Comey indicted following pressure from Trump," September 25, 2025.

⁶ PJ Media, "This Looks Like the Smoking Gun in the Case Against James Comey," November 4, 2025.

⁷ Ibid.

⁸ Daily Caller, "Comey And His Pal Celebrated Leak To NY Times In Damning Emails," November 3, 2025.

⁹ Ibid.

¹⁰ RedState, "Smoking Gun? Damning Emails Appear to Show Comey OK'd Leaks, Expected to Work for 'President Hillary,'" November 3, 2025.

¹¹ Fox News, "Comey indicted for alleged false statements, obstruction of congressional proceeding," September 26, 2025.