Schiff: DOJ prosecuting Comey because Blanche 'wants to keep this job'
Source: The Hill
05/03/26 3:01 PM ET
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) sought another grand jury indictment of James Comey because acting Attorney General Todd Blanche wants to stay in the post full-time. Schiff told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the DOJ sought the indictment, which a grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina returned on Tuesday, because Comey is a “political opponent” of President Trump.
He also listed other reasons, saying, “It’s the fact the president has called upon [Comey] to prosecution. It’s the fact that Todd Blanche wants to keep this job.”. “It’s the fact that [former Attorney General] Pam Bondi didn’t successfully bring a case against one of the president’s enemies,” added the California Democrat, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Trump has not nominated Blanche, who has run the DOJ since the president dismissed Bondi on April 2, to the full-time role. Earlier Sunday, the acting attorney general told Welker that Trump “can ask me to do whatever he chooses and I’ll be happy to do my job.”
The three-page indictment of Comey states that the former FBI director “did knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon” Trump by posting a photo to Instagram last May of seashells arranged in the numbers 86-47.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5861451-schiff-criticizes-comey-indictment/
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Apparently so, but this case will go nowhere. First of all Comey is not and never was a "political opponent" of Chump ... therefore this indictment is false and completely hokey.
Secondly, Comey has never threated the life of Chump, and a bunch of seashells is not a threat, certainly not a "death" threat. The term "86" doesn't mean to kill someone.
"86" is a workplace shorthand term that means to cancel a customer's order, as in a restaurant setting. It has no meaning to anyone who has never worked in a restaurant.
How they get "assassinate" out of that, I'll never know.
