在他发布的视频中联邦大陪审团的两项指控前美国联邦调查局导演詹姆斯·科米说他是无辜的。
“我为司法部心碎。我对联邦司法系统很有信心，我是无辜的，所以让我们进行一次审判，并保持这种信心，”科米在简短的视频中说发布到他的Instagram账户。
尚不清楚该视频是何时录制的。
“我和我的家人多年来一直知道，对抗唐纳德·特朗普是有代价的，但我们无法想象自己以其他方式生活。我们不会跪着生活，你们也不应该，”科米在视频中说。
“我深爱的人最近说恐惧是暴君的工具，她是对的，”科米说，指的是他的女儿莫琳·科米的一份声明，在告别邮件中在今年夏天被纽约南区联邦检察官办公室解雇后，她对她的同事说。“但是我不怕，我希望你也不怕。相反，我希望你能参与进来，你能集中注意力，你能像你深爱的国家依赖于它那样投票，事实也的确如此。”
科米被控在2020年向参议院司法委员会提交虚假陈述和妨碍相关证词。
就在几天前，唐纳德·特朗普总统发布了一项指控公众需求他的司法部“现在”采取行动起诉科米和其他政敌。
根据美国广播公司获得的一封电子邮件，科米的女婿小特洛伊·爱德华兹(Troy Edwards Jr .)在被起诉后，辞去了他在弗吉尼亚州东区的国家安全检察官职务。
爱德华兹写道:“为了维护我对宪法和国家的誓言，我特此辞去司法部弗吉尼亚东区助理联邦检察官的职务，立即生效。”
Former FBI Director James Comey posts video after indictment: 'I am innocent'
In a video posted following histwo-count indictment by a federal grand jury, former FBI Director James Comey says he is innocent.
"My heart is broken for the Department of Justice. I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I am innocent, so let's have a trial, and keep the faith,"Comey said in the brief videoposted to his Instagram account.
It is not clear when the video was recorded.
"My family and I have known for years that there are costs for standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees and you shouldn't either," Comey said in the video.
"Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant and she is right," Comey said, referring to a statement his daughter, Maurene Comey,made in a farewell emailto her colleagues after being fired from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York this summer. "But I am not afraid, and I hope you are not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does."
Comey was indicted on charges of making a false statement and obstruction related to his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020.
The indictment came just days after President Donald Trump issued apublic demandfor his Justice Department to act "now" to bring prosecutions against Comey and other political foes.
Following his indictment, Comey's son-in-law Troy Edwards Jr. resigned his post as a national security prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, according to an email obtained by ABC News.
"To uphold my oath to the Constitution and country, I hereby resign as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in the Department of Justice effective immediately," Edwards wrote.
