Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett appeared on “Hannity” Thursday and ripped former FBI Director James Comey for his “self-righteous sermonizing” video that he recorded after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an indictment against him.

Just hours after the DOJ announced Comey was indicted on two of three counts, he posted a video on Instagram saying his “heart” is “broken” for the DOJ. Discussing the case, Fox’s Sean Hannity asked Jarrett about “any possibility of any superseding indictments” following Thursday’s announcement. (RELATED: Former DOD Lawyer Says Comey Displayed ‘Poor Judgment’ As FBI Director)

“There is always that possibility. I would say that James Comey should consider himself fortunate that many of his suspected crimes — and it could fill a phone book — are barred by the statute of limitations. But like Richard Nixon, it’s always the cover up that does you in. Lying to Congress, obstructing its investigation, which Comey did over and over and over again, all the way up to 2020, which is within the five-year statute of limitations,” Jarrett said.

According to the DOJ, Comey faces one count of making an alleged false statement within jurisdiction of the legislative branch and one count of obstruction of a congressional investigation. The announcement from the Justice Department comes a day after reports speculated that the DOJ would ask a grand jury to indict Comey on allegations of lying to Congress in September 2020 as a legal deadline for charges approaches.

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Jarrett went on to call out Comey’s “infamous” standing in Washington, D.C., highlighting how former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe implicated him in 2018 for allegedly knowing about leaks to the media.

“He was infamous in Washington as a prodigious leaker. He would do it to burnish his own image, inflate his ego, but mostly to smear the man he so despised, Donald Trump,” Jarrett said. “He would authorize others like Andrew McCabe, James Baker, to leak sensitive material to the media. Sometimes Comey did it himself through a conduit, notably stealing FBI documents when he was fired and then secretly giving them to his friend, Daniel Richman, who handed them off secretly to a reporter.”

“But Comey’s denials are on videotape. You’ve played some of them, and prosecutors, indeed, as John points out, have witnesses who are already on the record. So this is a narrowly defined case,” Jarrett added. “I had to laugh when I saw Comey rush to a camera tonight to claim the mantle of victimhood while anointing himself as America’s greatest hero. He thinks he’s fearless in the face of a tyrant. It was classic Comey, vainglorious, self-righteous, sermonizing. The dissonance is striking. This is the guy who did more damage to the FBI and our system of justice and a presidency than anyone ever. So his defense will be, ‘Oh, gee,  I am a victim of a political prosecution and lawfare.’ The irony should be lost on no one.”

In his nearly one-minute response on Instagram, Comey said he and his family have known “for years” the “costs” of “standing up to” President Donald Trump but couldn’t “imagine living any other way.” He added that they would not “live on our knees,” urging viewers to stay “engaged” and pay attention as he anticipated the trial.

Comey’s charges come after reports broke in July that the former FBI director and former CIA Director John Brennan were placed under criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing regarding the infamous Steele dossier as they had testified about it to Congress.

In 2020, Comey sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee, pleading ignorance to knowing that there had been significant problems with the dossier’s reliability. At the time, Comey said his staff at the FBI had not notified him of issues regarding Igor Danchenko, who was the primary source for the dossier’s author Christopher Steele.

Comey also told the lawmakers that he could not “recall” details from a briefing in October 2016 about the DOJ’s concerns over the dossier’s political bias against Trump.

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