FBI looking into James Comey’s off-the-books ‘honeypot’ operation targeting 2016 Trump campaign
SUMMARY
The FBI’s new brass, Director Kash Patel and Deputy Dan Bongino, is kicking off a fresh look into a claim from a decade ago: ex-Director James Comey reportedly ran an off-the-books operation targeting Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. A whistleblower spilled the beans last year to the House Judiciary Committee, saying Comey sent two female undercover agents—labeled “honeypots”—to cozy up to Trump’s team right after his June 2015 campaign launch. This predates the well-known Crossfire Hurricane probe into Russian ties. The whistleblower claims it was a fishing trip, not tied to any specific crime, and Comey kept it hush-hush—no official files, no paper trail. They say it was hidden from the Justice Department’s watchdog, and one agent even slid over to the CIA to dodge questions, while another climbed the FBI ranks. The operation supposedly shut down when a newspaper nearly blew an agent’s cover. Now, the FBI’s hunting for those mystery women to get the full story.
