Trump Declares Himself King in Cringe Photo With King Charles
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The Department of Justice has once again indicted former FBI Director James Comey. This time, it’s via an Instagram post. No, seriously.
Nearly a year ago, Comey sparked a massive backlash from the right after posting a photo of seashells laid out on a North Carolina beach that read “8647.” He claimed he came across the already laid out shells on a walk and assumed it was a political message. Some accuse the former FBI director of calling “86,” or killing, the forty-seventh president, Donald Trump.
Comey faces two charges. One for allegedly “knowingly and willfully” [making] a threat to kill and inflict bodily harm on the President of the United States,” and another for “knowingly and willfully [transmitting] in interstate and foreign commerce, a communication that contained a threat to kill the president.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche outlined the charges at a news conference Tuesday afternoon and said the investigation has been ongoing for 11 months.
At the time, the Secret Service found Comey vacationing with his family. He deleted the post and apologized. “I didn’t realize that some people associated these numbers with violence. It never occurred to me, but I oppose any form of violence, so I removed the post,” he said last year.
Then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard both called for Comey’s imprisonment. Speaking to Fox News in May, Trump dismissed Comey’s apology: “He knew exactly what that meant. A kid knows what that meant.”
The government’s first indictment of Comey for allegedly giving false testimony and obstructing an investigation into the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election quickly collapsed last year.
The seemingly flimsy case was initially plagued by warnings from prosecutors that there was not enough evidence to charge Comey in the first place, and concerns about how the evidence had been handled. Ultimately, a judge ruled that U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan had been improperly named, and the indictments she signed against Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were later vacated.
This story has been updated.
