Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced today a two-count indictment against former FBI Director James Comey from the Eastern District of North Carolina for threats against President Donald Trump. [Indictment Here]
According to the Press Release: […] “The Indictment includes two counts, first in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 871, alleging that James Comey, 65, knowingly and willfully made a threat to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States. This charge alleges that on May 15, 2025, by publicly posting an image over the internet via Instagram depicting “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 Indictment also charges Comey in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), that James Comey consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his communication would be viewed as threatening violence, and that he knowingly transmitted a communication in interstate commerce that contained a threat to injure the person of another, which a reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to a person.” (SOURCE)
James Comey is charged with Threatening the President in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 871(a) and Transmitting a Threat in Interstate Commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c). If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Additionally, similar to the criminal referral connected to former ICIG Michael Atkinson, today’s grand jury indictment creates a pressure point for ongoing DOJ investigations into additional related matters concerning FBI Director James Comey.
Could not happen to a nicer guy!
This is pretty weak sauce given all the things that Comey should be indicted for. But, what the heck, it’s better than nothing and Comey richly deserves his life to be stuffed around as much as possible.
A pressure point.
I hope Comey feels the pressure in the anus.
Normally, I would disregard a comment like this. But this one made me chuckle!
Eeeooowww…
A low class comment about a low class person. I concur. Carry on! 🤩
I mentioned earlier elsewhere on The Conservative Treehouse that we hope for indictments and convictions on many counts pertaining to the failed coup d’etat against President TRUMP!
His smug Arrogance goeth before the fall…we hope!
Well hopefully his defense will inflict monetary pain as well.
Lots of wealthy nutcases out there to shell out $$ for him.
Indictment: Yes! Conviction? In DC?
This is taking place in the supposedly reddest county in South Carolina!
Oooops, make that the reddest county in NORTH Carolina!
You start with the lowing standing fruit.
Lowest standing fruit, at 6’8”.
Lo, how the mighty may soon be falling !
2 words. Al Capone
They got Al Capone on tax evasion.
Bankrupt him. Make his life hell like they’ve been doing to Trump for years. All of them need to go bankrupt defending themselves.
It’s absolutely essential that Justice be served.
In DC?
North Carolina!
So his defense will have to be that he’s too ignorant to grasp how that visual would be interpreted by most people.
Now that is a good one
I hereby nominate that for “best picture of the month” posted here on CTH.
Is that a wet patch between his thighs.
Maurene Comey sales seashell by the seashells by the seashore.
I am a lonely conservative with a high school education who lives in his mom’s basement (although I am her caretaker). Even I knew what 86 means, especially with the number being right next to 47. Like Sundance has said, these Trump haters pretend not to know things.
Comey was Whitey Bulger’s corrupt handler for the FBI in Boston for years.
Every mobster knows that to “86” a guy means to put a hit on and take him out.
Fecklessness. Betrayal. Insurrection.
8 miles out of town and 6 feet under.
That was John connelley
it was mueller who was the federal prosecutor in Boston then
well, for starters, 86 does not mean violence. so there is that.
step 1: change venue to DC courts.
“86” means to get rid of, to eliminate, don without, etc. Anyone who ever worked in the food service industry knows exactly the connotation.
You can parse words, but the meaning was clear. It was a threat, a dog whistle, an instruction while trying to be cute by half.
ive worked food service; i know exactly what it means, and we all get what he meant.
the point remains that when the burden of proof is on the prosecutor, the body of other evidence will not stand up to even basic scrutiny.
Mulley they have his personel phone. that means they have everything he ever texted or dialed. They have searched it for all the elements of the crime. Motivation, Actions, Frame of mind, Discussions involving 86 before and after, Contacts with foreign nationals, It would be a smorgasboard of discovery and a treasure trove of leads to the entire laefare crowd. Rember they are his friends not his lawyers NO PRIVILEGE
From Coffee & Covid:
At this time he made his little shell art project, Comey was touring to promote his novel FDR Drive. Guess what it was about?
FDR Drive is a boring, narcissistic ‘thriller’ about ‘stochastic terrorism’ involving a right-wing public figure using coded messaging to incite his followers to commit acts of violence against political enemies. Comey enthusiastically told an NPR interviewer that the book’s central themes were free speech and “what happens when someone’s words incite violence.” The protagonist, federal prosecutor Nora Carleton, investigates whether the podcaster can be held criminally accountable for violence committed by his followers. I am not making that up.
The jury will find it very interesting how RussiaGate co-conspirator Comey was gassing away on national radio about how coded incitement operates, while simultaneously insisting he was just unable to recognize the coded incitement in his own Instagram feed. The fact that he quickly deleted the image after it started getting criticism speaks volumes.
Why delete it at all, if it was perfectly innocent?
A bit surprised that they chose this to use as the basis for an indictment.
“Pressure point”
its really only a pressure point if there is some credible chance that it results in true consequences for him.
i am just going to go on record here: the only thing this is gonna get him is an extra zero on his book deal.
Cheer up, man. At least the DOJ and FBI activity is picking up now that Blondie’s gone.
not disappointed by that at all. just hoping they are focusing on real, meaningful prosecutions. the “process” is definitely some degree of punishment, as well.
He was deputy ag.
still is
he had been working on this for a year.
it was her call.
think outside of the box,
Perhaps the first of many………..
Tie him up in court.
Break him financially.
Foot in the door…
Whatever gets his ass convicted and hopefully bankrupted.
well, it could be indicted outside of DC, there is that.
Sadly no 3am SWAT smash down wakeup call because our side plays by Queensberry Rules.
edit: spelling
Yes.. “we” are too polite by half.
I’m reconsidering Mr. Blanche.
It does appear that the change has resulted in more indictments, now reconsider Blondie’s wingwoman.
I think I’m supporting him too, even if he were to put on a blonde woman’s wig and a dress.
And like good republican simps they’ll allow Comey to surrender himself and avoid the perp-walk; unlike when dems are in charge and send in 15 agents armed to the teeth at 5AM along with an CNN live crew to broadcast every humiliating second of the arrest.
That was the other indictment.
Maybe not this time.
Reportedly with orders of “shoot to kill.”
Well hopefully they keep picking the traitors off one by one.
Someone in this traitorous bunch of pansies is gonna cut a deal. The domino line is about to get knocked down.
No one in the Clinton orbit ever did…
Jack Cashill:
“The evidence in the one case I know best, that of Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, points strongly to an execution. I think the Clintons were shocked to learn how Croatian intelligence carried out the hit, namely the sabotage of a USAF aircraft with 34 others on board, but Brown’s death before the 1996 election solved a lot of problems.”
https://jackcashill.substack.com/p/what-to-think-about-those-11-missing
also:
The New Clinton Body Count: Suspicious Political Deaths (Conspiracy Deaths) Paperback – January 18, 2022
It’s a book available on Amazon.com
This won’t go anywhere.
That you Comey?
it already has.
where?
He is indicted?
he was once before, too. it was dismissed so quickly that it gave him a major PR boost to be able to strut around announcing how impotent the admin is.
that wasnt a grand jury indictment and it fell because the judge refused to accept the procecutor.
The process is the punishment. This indictment is fighting lawfare fire with lawfare fire. There’s enough out there on Comey to keep him in front of a judge in process punishment hell for some number of years, even if he is never convicted.
Exactly!! Sometimes with some opponents, you have to fight fire with fire.
The process is
The Punishment.
No, it isn’t. He needs prison time. Or it’s a nothing burger.
Pam who?
Did I not hear of an arrest warrant? As in: “perp walk?”
Yep. Maybe he will resist.
Okay, Sundance … publish that!
Then you did not watch the presser.
Marshals have a warrant to get him
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2049223116052697589
It couldn’t happen to a better guy.
Enjoy prison, treasonous wretch.
It would be so sweet if, like the weak sauce indictments brought by Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, that legal experts cringed at, that these charges actually end up sticking.
Anyone with an inkling of knowledge of law knows that Bragg’s 34 indictments were past the statute of limitations, not really felonies, and issued under nonexistent “novel legal theory”. Yet, a dumb, Trump hating 99% Democrat jury jumped all over that hot mess.
Hopefully the NC jury does the same. Plus, Comey *actually* is guilty of the threats.
He better be glad, I’m not on the jury
Better an NC jury than a DC jury. At least we stand a 50-50 chance of convicting him in NC.
Maybe because of the King’s visit we didn’t get to see Comey’s perp walk on all the major networks?? Funny that huh!
this tells me things I don’t want to believe….that doj is more than likely not going to charge Comey with the more serious crimes.
that they are using this particular charge based on a timing element (the latest assassination attempt at the corr dinner) to provoke a more emotional response from jury. a clever gimic, but to be clear, I find it condescending. one because it is doubtful that Comey had any involvement in that assassination attempt and that will be how it will be received…as another weak play to get him in court. but secondly, the case itself …moving rocks in patterns suggesting the 86 can be read as two meaning. to get rid of, and of course to kill. Comey has already made his thoughts clear on which of the two he “meant”. And in court that is all that really matters. You can’t really win a case, when a defendant is accused of making a veiled death threat…and if there was ever a way to avoid making a death threat, and still leave that brewing, this is how you do it. Comey, again showing he isn’t a stupid person..vile, scofflaw, horrible and obviously infected with orange man bad disease, but cunning.
now if this costs him lots of money to defend himself, I am okay with that…dematerialize some of the ill gotten wealth. but based on what we can actually measure right now…(there just aren’t enough prosecutors and investigators actively working any parts of the Russia Russia hoax, sadly the same basis from which I established early on we would be dissapointed by the durham “probe”)
at best, he spends some of his personal wealth and then he writes a book and makes it all back…or worse, he counter sues the government and THE PEOPLE pay him AGAIN FOR HIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.
I could vomit now.
God Bless America
I hope not.
He needs justice served upon him.
I utterly let down by your comment, and the reason is I value your thoughts on things highly. You definitely gave me a reason to think things through.
Fat finger flagging doesn’t count. Wish I knew how to unflag. Sorry team.
You are soooo right.
It sounds like the DOJ is then taking superficial action when we need them to go after the roots.
So they don’t know that? Why would they waste the time?
I’m not doubting you at all, just trying to understand.
So creating a pressure point….means what?
It’s significance is on par with a butterfly 🦋 fart.
Leverage this to get him to confess to other crimes or rat out his co-conspirators.
as much as I really don’t want to believe what I am about to write, I think there is some things to consider.
President Trump has fired many people, many attorney’s. And we know why and there is nothing wrong with this. However, what this also means is that the next tranche of attorney’s fielding “the complaints” must have some awareness that progress, any progress, is essential to staying alive…so to speak.
While I would not like to believe that is the driving force for this obvious reflexive charge against Comey…one has to clear eyed about why all the other Russia Russia conspiracies are not top priority. this one really does feel like a joke.
If I could be convinced this is some part of a larger strategy to corner Comey, I am open to those ideas, but frankly I’ve not read anything at all that give that any support. In fact, in no small way this gives comey’s defense later down the road, should that ever happened, even more ammunition to describe to jurors’ this is yet another attempt to weaponize justice and put me in jail…
I don’t understand this latest move. It feels like spiking the ball to end the game no one really wants to play anymore.
God Bless America
Hey regitiger, maybe a play is on for discovery material (ie. Phone calls,, texts e-mails). Conspiracy maybe.
Just my tarnished two cents.
Impoverish Comey to the point that he is forced to star in a senior sex porn video for cash.
Wow, I would like to see that……..well, not literally!
🤢 🤮
But it is possible that this is just the beginning for Comey and the rest of the Obama cabal. Blondie is gone, and there is a noticeable uptick in activity by the DOJ and FBI in just the last few weeks. The shells are ridiculous compared to what he is actually implicated in, but it gets him arrested and forces him into court.
In the meantime, further charges are brought that maybe get him into prison. At the same time Brennan and others (I hope many others) are prosecuted. Some are turned, and they sing.
The real target in all of this, of course, is the Magic Negro himself. If that’s what they’re doing now, I’m all in, because that’s what I have wanted from the beginning. It’s starting to look like the obstruction, all along, was Barbie Blondie.
“Comey, again showing he isn’t a stupid person..vile, scofflaw, horrible and obviously infected with orange man bad disease, but cunning.” Substitute Clinton.
In the Jack Reacher movie, Tom explains about the 4 kinds of people who join the military, the last one being why the suspect, James Barr, joined. “then the are people who are looking for a legal way to kill other people; James Barr is one of those.”
It is why Hillary became a lawyer: to have a legal way of breaking the law. Zeifman kicked her off his Watergate panel when she was 27, saying she was an unethical lawyer.
It was perfectly legal for her to fire the Travel Office staff, but that wasn’t enough for her. In order to cover up the shady reason (“we have to get our people in there”), she sicced the FBI on Billy Dale, accusing him of embezzlement. Firing Dale wasn’t illegal, but surely false accusation accounts for some sort of crime….?
It is why she and Bill remain married: you don’t have to testify against a spouse.
That whole crew SHOULD burn in hell.
Blanche did tell us they had to collect his electronic devices. I’m confident Comey’s true meaning of 86 is on them somewhere, proving his guilt. I choose to be positive about this case.
how could the DOJ expect to get the serious, heavyweight convictions on comey & others when all trials would b in the DC courts, packed w biased politicized judges…. NC court is a good start
comey would rat out his mother if it meant he could keep his wealth and freedom
Excellent…now do Mary McCord and the Lawfare flunkies.
If Mary McCord is indicted, tried and found guilty make her say “She sells seashells by the seashore” 100 times and then feed her to the sharks.
Peter Piper really picked a peck of pickled peppers
With that one.
All day, all night Mary Ann. Down by the sea side sifting sand…
Going to have to find her with the reflection of a warriors shield. If you look at her directly you will turn to stone. lol
A good start!
Anything to re-align the justice system and remove entitlement.
What jurisdiction is this in?
Trump’s retribution jurisdiction.
North Carolina
No faith in that. Like DC there isn’t?
Eastern District North Carolina. It’s in the very first paragraph. I had to go back to look as well.😉
Have a great evening!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/breaking-arrest-warrant-issued-james-comey-read-indictment/
North Carolina
Comey gonna get the army of swifty’s to defend him? Gotta wait and see, but I’m sure that’s why he went full r3tard and did that first Taylor swift rebuttal to his “86-47” twit post.
Comey wants Johnny Cochran and F. Lee Bailey to defend him in court. Someone tell this dummy they both are dead.
What’s the phrase? The process is the punishment?
At least they will have him jammed up for some time.
This is the best the Trump AG can do??
I mean Comey’s only defense is to play dumb.
Like a trained dog.
Which he is.
“They washed up like that I swear!”
Says the guy with two arse’s.
Seashell see if anything comes of this…
BTW, this is good timing, right after the THIRD assassination attempt on Trump.
This will be laughed out of court. DOJ has to do better than this.
Exactly.
And make things worse for making substantive charges stick.
i think its a north carolina court.
Repeating what others have said, the process is the punishment. This indictment is fighting lawfare fire with lawfare fire. There’s enough out there on Comey to keep him in front of a judge in process punishment hell for some number of years, even if he is never convicted.
That’s encouraging.
No, it won’t.
Alvin Bragg’s 34 indictments were even more laughable, and considered the weakest of Lawfare’s arsenal, yet ended up being the only ones that stuck.
Only because a Manhattan jury would vote to convict a ham sandwich, if they thought it was a MAGA leaning ham sandwich.
Just think, after all the heinous crimes Comey has committed, how hilarious it will be if these charges are the ones that stick.
How do I get on that jury?
Through the hour glass and sands of time….
Better than nothing…..
We’ll see what happens.
I wonder if it is a coincidence that Comey was indicted while Trump was hosting King Charles.
This should sufficiently annoy Comey for awhle until his superseding indictments and starring role in the FL RICO case kick in…and hilarity ensues.
Maybe Comey should self-86 …, and post a picture of that.
I always believed this guy was the most likely of the bunch to rat out his co-conspirators in exchange for a deal. Maybe the DOJ believes that too?
Indict the 🤡 until hes flat, busted broke. Just like he did to Gen Flynn.
It seems like a fairly weak case, at least compared to the mishandling of documents and the attempted coup. However if the strategy is to pull him into court on lesser charges first, then hit him with the more serious charges to drown him in legal costs. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving person, like what the DOJ did with Mike Flynn.
I dont know… he might not have “had intent” (like he said about hiLIARy), so that will be his defense.
Saw something today that the statute of limitations on uranium one did not toll over lies told feds. Clinton foundation can be next
If the Little Rock FBI agents didn’t verify what the prosecutors told them about the statute of limitations, they can be viewed as pro-Clinton, too.
Getting closer and closer to Obama/Hilary indictments…
Don’t know about that, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the uptick in activity since the ouster of Blondie.
If nothing else, his little shell game will cost him some coconuts until someone bails him out with a grifter’s book deal or a sale on “Comey is my homey” sweatshirts.
Comey is my homey 😂
Hey homeboy, all points of view are welcomed here.
Comey is the real
Shell answer man.
Unlike, apparently, the rest of the, biased and easily manipulated, internet, I have heard “86” used, irl, many times, and always in the context of removing someone from a location.
If I needed the government to define everything for me I’d be a Democrat.
Good.
Who is it who said, “We’ll all hang . . .”?
“If that f***ing bastard wins, we’ll all be swinging from nooses!” — Felonia Von Pantsuit
I almost don’t care if he skates on this….as long as it proceeds to trial so that discovery takes place.
Let’s see if one of these Lawfare practitioners enjoys “the process is the punishment” 😎
Too many people complaining that this is not worth the time
The hell it is!!!
They need to roll up bitch witmer too
She should be next
“They need to roll up bitch witmer too”
How come no one ever went after Evelyn Farkas? She went on MSNBC and bragged about how Obama was releasing intelligence to a much wider sphere of people in his Administration in order to have more people able to leak to ‘our people on the Hill.’
Surely the squeeze could have been put on her to provide more details about the who and how, then move up the chain from there.
Gov. 10W-30 Face.
A Grand Jury indictment so a number of impanelled citizens from the Eastern District of North Carolina thought Comey warranted indictment. Interesting.
“James Comey SMUGLY RESPONDS to the 2 felony charges levied against him for threatening President Trump”….
Let’s get that door break down at 2am !!! He’s gonna get it the hard way
Pam Bondi was such a bad nomination. Just promote Blanche and put Lee Zelden at Asst AG.
I want Zeldin to stay at EPA. He’s doing a lot of really good damage to the climate blob there, and he’d be wasted as AAG. Plenty of others can fill that role.
Reading moaning it’s protected speech, 1st amendment . 18 U.S.C. § 871 is a specific law, protecting president, and others in the line of succession.
How would that work.
Threaten the president in any way, law broken?
Reasonable people passed down the indictment.
Would another group of people convict.
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Just-declassified DOJ documents reveal pro-Clinton prosecutors misled Little Rock FBI agents into thinking the statute of limitations had expired on Hillary’s Uranium One deal
Cont…
“Cool shell formation on my beach walk”
Let me help you with that…
“Cool
shellcell formation on mybeachperp walk”I hope it sticks.
@DOJ, check out this A-hole’s performances of the iconic Hendrix song, “Hey Joe”, in which he rants about President Trump in the character of ‘Joe’. I once observed him do it at Prospect Park in Portsmouth, NH several years ago, and walked out, probably the only person in the crowd who objected.
“Free Speech,” or incitement to political violence?
“Hey Steve Earle, where are you going with that guitar in your hand?”
Comey Didn’t Kill Himself.
This is the best we can do against Comey?
He will swat these allegations away as an adept fly evades a newspaper.
Good explanation of pressure point.
Some are so easily dismissive of this. We have no idea what evidence they have. What if there are text messages or emails that confirm the dirtbag knew what he was saying and fully understood the meaning? This is being run out of North Carolina, not Washington DC.
Thanks for posting. I hope our respected CTH posters read. They will have a better day.