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FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau spent nearly a year investigating a social media post that led to Tuesday’s indictment of one of his predecessors, James Comey. Comey was charged over an Instagram post he made in May 2025, which he later deleted after conservative uproar. The post showed an image of seashells on a beach arranged in a way that read “86 47.” The former FBI director wrote, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” President Donald Trump is the 47th president, while “86” is slang in the service industry and typically means to refuse service to someone or to throw a person out of an establishment. Conservatives insisted the “86” in this case meant “kill.” Comey was indicted on two counts in the Eastern District of North Carolina: making a threat against the president and transmitting a threat across state lines. Amid the furor last year, he said it was “crazy” to think his post was a threat. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Patel echoed Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who said the bureau spent 11 months on the case. The director said the length of the probe is not unusual, as such cases “take time”: As the U.S. Attorney indicated, James Comey will be afforded every matter of due process under the United States Constitution. And as the attorney general indicated, this has been a case that’s been investigated over the past nine, 10, 11 months. These cases take time. Our investigators work methodically. They are career agents, career prosecutors who work these matters. They call the balls and strikes in the field as they see fit, pursuant to the facts of the case and the law. They took that information and made a presentment to a grand jury, a jury of their peers in the district in which the alleged crime took place. And that grand jury spoke. And that grand jury returned a two-count indictment against James Comey, James Comey allegedly threatened the life of the president of the United States. This is the second time Comey has been indicted. In September, a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted Comey for allegedly lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation in 2020. Two months later, a judge tossed the charges after ruling that the U.S. Attorney for the District, who had signed the indictment, was illegally appointed.… [TheTopNews] Read More.38 mins ago - OpenAI Trial Starts With Two Very Different Tales of a Company’s Early Years
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(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) FBI Director Kash Patel duked it out with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday over who deserves credit for recent raids in the state aimed at combating government fraud. “If you commit fraud in Minnesota you’re going to get caught — and that’s exactly what we saw today. We catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information. Joint investigations work, and securing justice depends on it,” Walz announced in a post on social media on X, adding: Today’s raids by state and federal law enforcement happened because our state agencies caught irregular behavior and reported it. That’s how the system is supposed to work, and our agencies will keep at it as long as there are fraudsters around to put behind bars. Now let’s work on a joint investigation into the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good — instead of cherry picking when we seek justice and when we turn a blind eye. Patel shared Walz’s post and added, “Come again? This FBI and DOJ with our DHS partners drafted and executed every search warrant today. But go ahead and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under your governorship.” Earlier in the day, the FBI said it raided 22 Minnesota businesses as part of an effort to combat the alleged multi-billion dollar fraud scheme in the state, which has become a regular talking point of both President Donald Trump and the GOP. While late last year the fraud scandal in Minnesota was grabbing headlines, many in the MAGA movement blamed both the Somali population in the state and the local Democrats. At the time, Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall pointed out to her colleagues that the fraud scandal in Minnesota had actually been going on for years, and the Biden DOJ had made dozens of arrests and secured key convictions in the years prior. “Google it actually, local Minnesota news outlets have been reporting on this for years. Speaking of years, during the Biden administration, there were 59 people convicted so far. The ringleader is not Somalian. She’s a white woman named Aimee Bock. She was found guilty on all seven counts that were brought against her. So there are people that are already in prison. And remember, some of these are not DHS or federal-related facilities. Some of these facilities were closed down for other reasons,… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - AG Todd Blanche Pressed on Gap Between Free Speech and ‘Actual Threat’ Again...Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was pressed by a reporter to explain the difference between free speech and an “actual threat of violence” against President Donald Trump during a press conference where he discussed the new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey. Blanche said he did not want to go into too many details about the indictment, but that the “conduct” involved happened on May 15, 2025. That was the same day Comey posted an image on Instagram of sea shells on a beach that read “86 47”; Comey captioned the photo “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” That post was read by many to be an endorsement of killing Trump, whom is the 47th president. “It is clear you don’t want to talk specifics today, but to the American public, can you at least give you us a sense of whether you have evidence, or hard evidence, that shows that Mr. Comey intended for President Trump to be harmed?” a male reporter asked Blanche. The reporter then added, “secondarily, for critics who say where does free speech end and an actual threat of violence begin?” Blanche scoffed at the second question. “I don’t know what critics say that, especially today. But it’s not a very difficult line to look at, and it’s not in my mind a difficult line for one to crossover one way or another,” Blanche said. “You are not allowed to threaten the president of the United States of America. That’s not my decision — that’s Congress’ decision, in a statute that they passed, that we charge multiple times a year.” Blanche continued: And so whether there is a defense as you just described, maybe. Maybe there is. But the government will have evidence. I am not going to talk about the evidence we have. It is unfair to him, it is unfair to the prosecutors, but it’s enough to say the grand jury returned an indictment.” The new indictment comes after a case against Comey was dropped last year. That indictment was based on alleged false statements made to Congress. Watch above via Fox News.The post AG Todd Blanche Pressed on Gap Between Free Speech and ‘Actual Threat’ Against Trump After Comey Indictment first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- AG Todd Blanche Shuts Down Reporter Asking If Ex-FBI Director Can ‘Turn Himsel...Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche shut down a reporter on Tuesday asking whether former FBI Director James Comey can “turn himself in” after a new indictment. Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel held a Tuesday press conference following Comey being indicted for the second time in less than a year by the DOJ over a social media post officials claim threatened the president. In the social video in question, Comey spelled out “86 47,” which critics claim was a veiled message about taking the president’s life. The term “86” can refer to discarding or getting rid of someone. Trump is the 47th president in his second term. Blanche was asked on Tuesday if Comey could “turn himself in” because, as a former FBI director, he’s not a “flight risk.” “I didn’t say he couldn’t turn himself in,” Blanche said at the press conference. He then revealed he’s not aware whether Comey is being placed under arrested. Blanche said: I don’t know whether he’s under arrest right now. I’m here talking to you. The grand jury issued an arrest warrant. I think that the way that this happens is different in every case. It’s fact intensive. It depends on, you’re right, who the defendant is. It depends whether he has counsel. It depends what the judge wants done. And so, I don’t know when the judge will schedule an initial arraignment, if that will be scheduled by the magistrate or the district court judge. I am sure… if it’s just something that will come up in the next coming days. You’ll know when it happens. As far as what Mr. Comey does between now and then, I’m going to leave that up to the line prosecutors in the Eastern District of North Carolina, the FBI agents, and the work that they’re doing. Watch above via Fox News.The post AG Todd Blanche Shuts Down Reporter Asking If Ex-FBI Director Can ‘Turn Himself In’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- READ: James Comey Indictment Reveals He’s Been Charged With ‘A Serious Expre...
FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2016, before the House Oversight Committee to explain his agency’s recommendation to not prosecute Hillary Clinton, now the Democratic presidential candidate, over her private email setup during her time as secretary of state, . (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Former FBI director James Comey has been charged with threatening the life of President Donald Trump in a newly released charging document. Comey was indicted for the second time in less than a year by the Trump administration on Tuesday. This second indictment was brought in the Eastern District of North Carolina, and a court clerk issued an arrest warrant for Comey. The charging documents address a controversial social media post by Comey in which he arranged seashells to display the numbers “86 47,” interpreted as a threat to remove or kill (“86”) the 47th president, Trump. “On or about May 15, 2025, in the Eastern District of North Carolina, the defendant, JAMES BRIEN COMEY JR, did knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon, the President of the United States, in that he publicly posted a photograph on the internet social media site Instagram which depicted seashells arranged in a pattern making out ’86 47′, which a reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the President of the United States,” the document reads. He is also charged with “knowingly and willfully” transmitting “in interstate and foreign commerce” this Instagram “communication that contained a threat to kill the President.” In a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, FBI director Kash Patel said this case has been investigated “over the past 9, 10, 11 months.” Comey was first indicted last September for lying to Congress, but the case was dismissed within a few months when a federal judge ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney who brought the charges, had not been legally appointed. “Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution’s Appointments Clause,” Distruct Court Judge Cameron McGowan Currie wrote. “As explained below, I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General’s attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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