{"id":331720,"date":"2026-04-28T20:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/ex-fbi-director-james-comey-charged-with-threatening-trumps-life-in-8647-post.html"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:58:40","slug":"ex-fbi-director-james-comey-charged-with-threatening-trumps-life-in-8647-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/ex-fbi-director-james-comey-charged-with-threatening-trumps-life-in-8647-post.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FBI Director James Comey charged with threatening Trump&#8217;s life in \u20188647\u2019 post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"MainContent\">\n<header class=\"ArticleHeader-articleHeader\" id=\"main-article-header\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Author-authorPortrait\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofnews.b-cdn.net\/timesofnewscdn\/usa\/b8a63d01_107134029-1666702125940-107134029-1665672176847-2022_Headshots-0874.jpg\" alt=\"thumbnail\" \/><span>WATCH LIVE<\/span><\/header>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to CNBC&#8217;s requests for comment on the reported charges. The White House referred CNBC to the DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had accused Comey of &#8220;calling for the\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">assassination<\/a>\u00a0of the president&#8221;\u00a0by sharing the image of the numbers in the May 15 post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eighty-six&#8221; is a term often used in the restaurant industry when a menu item is discontinued. The\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Merriam-Webster online dictionary<\/a>\u00a0says it can more broadly mean &#8220;to eject, dismiss, or remove (someone).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump is the 47th U.S. president.<\/p>\n<p>Comey at the time denied he was threatening Trump with the seashell post, writing in a follow-up, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence.&#8221; He said he deleted it anyway because &#8220;I oppose violence of any kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration investigated Comey over the social media post, but no charges were immediately brought.<\/p>\n<p>Around four months later, however, he was <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">indicted in Virginia<\/a> on one count each of making a false statement to Congress and obstruction.<\/p>\n<p>Comey denied the charges, which were brought under Lindsey Halligan, a former personal lawyer for Trump who was appointed interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>In November, a federal judge <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">dismissed the criminal case<\/a> against Comey after ruling that Halligan was unlawfully appointed.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/28\/james-comey-indicted-trump-seashell-8647.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH LIVE The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to CNBC&#8217;s requests for comment on the reported charges. The White House referred CNBC to the DOJ. Trump had accused Comey of &#8220;calling for the\u00a0assassination\u00a0of the president&#8221;\u00a0by sharing the image of the numbers in the May 15 post. &#8220;Eighty-six&#8221; is a term often used in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-331720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}