This is a good one. There was laughter when reading the article! He put his foot in it again. No wonder he’s so paranoid about his job. He can’t stop screwing up. That includes the two shootings in Minneapolis, but that’s not the subject today. For once, this really is different. Here we go! Thanks to Raw Story:
FBI Director Kash Patel might have just violated critical rules around grand jury secrecy at a press conference announcing the new indictment of his predecessor James Comey, a legal expert flagged on Tuesday.
Comey, who was already indicted for allegedly making false statements to Congress — only for that charge to be dropped because the DOJ’s prosecutor was improperly appointed — is now charged with making threats against President Donald Trump, because he posted an Instagram photo of seashells arranged to spell “8647” — the implication being that Trump, the 47th president, should be “86ed.”
Oh, good grief. Comey said at that time he was unaware of what that meant. So, he’s being indicted for taking a picture of seashells. The threat against Trump is bullshizzle. If he was going to do anything, it would have happened either a long time ago or shortly after the picture was posted. Indicted for a picture. Who paid off the grand jury? Because that’s nonsense. A picture.
“James Comey allegedly threatened the life of the President of the United States,” said Patel in the clip. “And as you all know, shortly after posting that threat, he deleted that threat and then issued an apology. All of that information was presented to the grand jury, and Mr. Comey will have his day in court and his ability to speak to a jury of his peers.”
Seriously? What happened there? This is a ridiculous thing to be indicted on. They really should have thrown it out. Yes, we know about Trump’s Revenge Tour™, but really? We would love to talk to that jury about how they brought an indictment against him because I can’t see how a damn picture would bring that forth! It just doesn’t make any sense to me. If we have any legal experts, please feel free to correct me.
Lawfare’s Anna Bower, however, couldn’t help notice a major anomaly in Patel’s remarks.
“In this clip, Kash Patel says the grand jury heard evidence that Comey deleted the ‘8647’ post and apologized. Neither fact appears in the indictment,” she posted to X. “Hmm. Did the FBI director just disclose evidence presented before a grand jury?”
This indictment, which comes after years of Trump publicly attacking Comey for his role in the Russia investigation and meddling behind the scenes to try to secure criminal charges against him, has been widely blasted as an abuse of power and violation of the First Amendment by legal experts, as the phrase “to 86 someone” is frequently used in politics and generally taken to mean removing them from power, not committing violence against them.
So we have another nonsense case. Are they going to make him fly to wherever this is going to be and have to pay for a hotel and necessities as well as hire a lawyer again? That would *really* piss us off. I just can’t understand how and why there was an indictment. I guess I am just clueless about law.
And why was Patel announcing the indictment and not the acting head of the DoJ??
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