James Comey, the disgraced former FBI director who himself faces serious questions about his own conduct during the Russia investigation and the Clinton email probe, has taken to CNN to lecture Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about “compromising” himself in pursuit of the top Justice Department job. The irony is thicker than a federal indictment. Comey, who was fired by President Trump in 2017 and later became a vocal critic while peddling the Steele dossier, now positions himself as some sort of ethical North Star. His attack on Blanche reeks of the same institutional arrogance that has plagued the DOJ and FBI for years, institutions that have repeatedly demonstrated selective enforcement when it comes to powerful insiders versus everyday Americans exercising their constitutional rights.
For the 2A community, this latest episode underscores a deeper and more troubling pattern: the weaponization of federal law enforcement against political opponents while gun owners continue to face an uneven playing field. The same crowd that cheered Comey’s leaks, the Crossfire Hurricane fiasco, and the subsequent Durham report’s quiet revelations about FBI misconduct now wants us to believe that Todd Blanche accepting a presidential nomination somehow taints the rule of law. Meanwhile, law-abiding gun owners watch as ATF rule changes, pistol brace bans, and red flag laws are rammed through with little regard for due process or the Second Amendment’s plain text. If Comey and his media allies are so concerned about “compromised” officials, perhaps they should start with the revolving door between the intelligence community, legacy media, and the permanent bureaucracy that has spent years treating the Constitution, particularly the right to keep and bear arms, as an inconvenience rather than the supreme law of the land.
The real compromise isn’t an ambitious lawyer taking a tough job in a new administration; it’s the decades-long erosion of public trust in institutions that are supposed to remain impartial. When former FBI directors become partisan pundits on cable news, it confirms what many in the firearms community have long suspected: the deck is stacked. The 2A movement’s strength has always come from its independence from these corrupted power centers. While Comey lectures from the green room, millions of Americans continue to vote with their wallets and ballots for leaders who will appoint attorneys general unafraid to respect the Bill of Rights instead of treating lawful gun ownership as a second-class privilege subject to bureaucratic whim. The hypocrisy on display should serve as a reminder that vigilance, not reliance on federal institutions, remains the price of liberty.
