Posted on 04/28/2026 6:01:07 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
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.”
Amid the furor last year, Comey said it was “crazy” to think his post was a threat.
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.
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.
Yessiree
How about investigating...and trying to gather as much available evidence, witnesses, and background information as possible to get an arrest and indictment, and which presentation of, might hold up in a DC courtroom, and won't be tossed out at the get-go.
They’re going to need to prove if he put those seashells there. Probably out investigating questioning witnesses. Going through all the social media.
Ugh. I don’t think Kash is covering himself with glory with this one.
LET KIMMEL DEFEND COMEY
This could be in a Babylon Bee gag.
A sissy guy Elie Honig on CNN excitedly said the new charge against Comey would definitely, quickly be wiped out. He looks like he would sashay his rear end as he walked off the set. Probably to favorable attention from the other gays.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/us/video/james-comey-president-trump-lead-jake-tapper
No. They are lying to protect Comey. Did Comey work in a “service industry”? No? So where did he learn that meaning of the term? He didn’t, hence the lie.
Photo....
Does the enemy such as the Chinese need to see that we have spy night vision goggles? Shouldn’t photos like this be kept under wraps?
Photo....
Sharks never bite lawyers.
Professional courtesy.
Threatening the life of a Pres by a disgruntled former FBI head is a serious crime.
In the first term the Sessions and Barr AG offices had the equivalent of turtle races that hit the statute of limitations or were tossed out. So frustrating.
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Maybe they are right.
What a ridiculous thing to say.
Also, they impacted a grand jury which takes time.
I also think this was sitting on Bondi’s desk for a bit.
Impaneled, not impacted. Spell check.
It’s Trump’s FBI. It’s his version of impeaching the former director knowing full well there will never be a conviction. Russia Russia Russia....
THANK YOU!
Comey is getting a taste of his own medicine. I hope he is indicted 10 more times.
BS. The dems nailed Trump in 90 days.
Obviously a weak case. I think the real reason they went for it is to tap down some of the hate by other Rat politicians. Make them worried they could be next.
I see what you did there!
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