Dear James Comey, Are You Only Mildly Nauseated by What Is Happening Now?
- john raymond
- Sep 22, 2025
- 3 min read
James Comey has tried to frame his intervention in the 2016 election as a tragic but dutiful act, accompanied by his admission of feeling “mildly nauseous” about possibly swinging the outcome.
That phrase was never appropriate. There was nothing mild about what he did. Comey broke from established FBI procedure, disregarded rules designed precisely to shield elections from interference, and introduced noise calculated to wound Hillary Clinton at the most vulnerable moment.
Comey acted lawlessly, and the consequences are now before us: a captured United States government run by President Trump, overtly weaponizing justice against political opponents while overtly serving Kremlin interests.
Evidence: Breaking Procedure
FBI and DOJ policy is clear: in the final days before an election, restraint is required. Silence is the rule, not disclosure. Comey knew this. Every senior official in the Bureau knew this.
Yet Comey chose to announce the reopening of the Clinton investigation just eleven days before the vote. That was not a slip, nor a misunderstanding. It was a conscious rejection of the rules he was sworn to uphold. The effect was predictable: a cloud of suspicion over Clinton at the precise moment Trump needed help.
Evidence: Political Intent
Comey insists his motives were institutional, that he sought only to protect the Bureau’s credibility. But this narrative collapses under scrutiny. His actions did not safeguard credibility; they shredded it. He did not prevent political fallout; he generated it.
By deviating from procedure, he made a political decision. He attacked one candidate while shielding the other. That is not neutrality — it is intervention. In substance, Comey used the power of the FBI to assist Trump ascend to the presidency.
Consequences Today
Now, in 2025, Comey himself is among Trump’s targets. Trump’s own Truth Social posts — whether intended as private directives or not — named Comey alongside Adam Schiff and Letitia James as enemies to be prosecuted.
Trump now openly pressures Pam Bondi and others to deliver vengeance.
This is no longer a warning about what might happen. It is happening. The weaponization of justice that Comey enabled now sees Comey himself in its crosshairs.
Analysis
The Raymond Method shows the pattern: autocrats pursue regime security above all, employ asymmetric warfare to weaken opponents, and eventually devour their own allies and enablers.
Comey was not a bystander to this process. By flouting the rules, he abetted Trump’s capture of the presidency. By refusing to see the asymmetric game, he became a pawn within it. The “mild nausea” formulation is not just weak — it is dishonest.
What Comey did was not an accident of timing or language. It was a calculated breach of procedure that helped deliver power to Trump.
Implications
Comey’s legacy is not one of tragic miscalculation, but of unlawful political intervention. He must be judged not as an institutional martyr, but as a man who decided who he wanted to be president and bent the Bureau’s power to make it so. The nausea he speaks of should not be mild; it should be overwhelming, the sick knowledge that he corrupted his office and opened the gates to authoritarian rule.
What History Should Remember
History should not record James Comey as a reluctant bureaucrat caught in a storm. It should record him as the official who, by breaking the rules he was charged to uphold, tilted an election and delivered the nation into Trump’s hands.
His phrase “mildly nauseous” seems but a mask. The truth is harsher: he acted lawlessly, politically, and decisively for Trump. Now we are forced to live with the consequences.
But of course there is a certain poetry to Comey being one of the first to truly suffer at Trump’s hands. Because of all the people, Comey deserves it.
Call it fucking karma.
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