Oh, this one’s got all the makings of a political thriller—except it’s not a movie, it’s real life. The FBI has reportedly opened an investigation into allegations that former FBI Director James Comey personally orchestrated an off-the-books operation to infiltrate Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign using undercover “honeypot” agents. Yeah, you read that right.
This explosive revelation comes from an FBI whistleblower who disclosed the alleged scheme to the House Judiciary Committee last year. According to The Washington Times, the whistleblower claimed that Comey not only knew about the operation but directly authorized it without creating an official case file.
Why? Because, as the whistleblower put it, “The case had no predicated foundation.” Translation: there was no legal justification for an official investigation, so Comey allegedly ran it in the shadows.
And let’s talk about the method. “Honeypot” operations—where attractive undercover agents use charm and seduction to extract information—are the stuff of spy movies and Cold War espionage. But according to this whistleblower, it wasn’t the KGB or MI6 running this playbook—it was Comey’s FBI, targeting a U.S. presidential campaign.
Now, under the leadership of Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, the FBI is reportedly hunting down the once-undercover operatives who allegedly carried out this scheme. If true, this is beyond the usual political dirty tricks—it’s an unprecedented abuse of federal power to manipulate an election from the inside.
Legal and political analyst Hugh Hewitt didn’t mince words in his reaction. He took to X to say that if this story is even remotely true, it “should shake everybody of standing in the mainstream in either party” and anyone with even a basic understanding of American history.
He called it an “actual example of an attempt to manipulate the political process via the secret abuse of federal authority,” adding that it would be “worse than the lawfare we know about. By a lot.”
And let’s be clear—lawfare (the use of legal and bureaucratic maneuvers to attack political opponents) has been the defining feature of Trump’s post-2016 political life. But this? This is something even darker. This would mean that, even before Trump ever set foot in the White House, high-level government officials were working in secret to take him down.
Hewitt, like many others, is skeptical that even Comey would have greenlit something this reckless. But let’s not forget—the same FBI leadership at the time was also behind the discredited Steele dossier and the infamous Crossfire Hurricane investigation, both of which were aimed at tying Trump to Russia. So, would it really be that far-fetched?
