Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche pushed prosecutors to pursue the Comey Trump Instagram assassination threat case after Pam Bondi put it on ice.
It was reported last year that Comey was under investigation for posting an ’86 47′ threat on Instagram.
Comey Trump assassination social media post (Screenshot via @Comey on X)
Bondi reportedly put the case on the backburner, but Blanche revived it and urged prosecutors to pursue charges.
Earlier this week James Comey was indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina on two felony counts:
COUNT ONE: Knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon, the President of the United States;
COUNT TWO: knowingly and willfully did transmit in interstate and foreign commerce a communication that contained a threat to kill the President, Donald J. Trump
US Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Ellis Boyle delivered remarks on the two-count indictment returned by the grand jury on Tuesday.
WATCH:
Ellis Boyle, the Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, describes the two felonies for which James Comey is being charged.
1. Knowingly and willfully made a threat to kill and to inflict bodily harm on the POTUS
2. Knowingly and willfully transmitted… pic.twitter.com/oo8Tyb7wic
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 28, 2026
A reporter earlier this week asked Todd Blanche why it took it nearly a year to bring charges against Comey in connection with his Instagram post.
“Director Comey posted this almost a year ago. Why bring this case now? Did you always feel like this was a strong prosecution or did something change recently?” the reporter asked.
“This investigation just didn’t come now. It’s the result of a lot of work by law enforcement over the past year,” Blanche said.
“We don’t time when we bring cases around anything other than when the investigation is at a place where we should go to the grand jury,” he said.
REPORTER: “Director Comey posted this almost a year ago. Why bring this case now?”
ACTING AG BLANCHE: “This investigation just didn’t come now. It’s the result of a lot of work by law enforcement over the past year.”
“We don’t time when we bring cases around anything other than… pic.twitter.com/uvzDjGCLIA
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 28, 2026
MS NOW reported:
The move to charge former FBI Director James Comey with threatening the president with a picture of seashells shifted into overdrive earlier this month after President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and named Todd Blanche as the acting replacement, according to two people familiar with the effort.
Then-Attorney General Bondi had pushed her team to keep pursuing Virginia-based charges against Comey for lying to Congress, concluding that case was significantly stronger than potential charges based in North Carolina that he threatened to kill or harm Trump. The threat case appeared to have largely been put on indefinite hold a few months after May 2025, when Comey posted a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach arranged to spell out “8647” and investigators first opened a case to consider if his Instagram posting constituted a criminal threat of harm.
In late March, before Bondi’s firing, Justice Department aides were urging that they delay charging Comey on the presidential threat case and wait until the Senate confirmed interim U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle to be the permanent head of the federal prosecutors’ office in the Eastern District of North Carolina, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
But after Bondi was out, and new acting Attorney General Blanche sought to win Trump’s appointment to the job permanently, the “seashells” case gained new steam, the people said. Blanche’s aides instructed Boyle to seek a grand jury indictment of Comey and he and a relatively junior prosecutor obtained one in the Eastern District on April 28.
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