Comey prosecution 'not just' about Instagram post: Blanche |
Comey prosecution ‘not just’ about Instagram post: Blanche
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey did not solely result from an Instagram post depicting seashells forming the numbers 86-47.
“Rest assured that the career assistant United States attorneys in North Carolina, the career FBI agents, the career Secret Service agents that investigated this case didn’t just look at the Instagram post and walk away,” Blanche told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“That’s why you saw an indictment last week, notwithstanding the fact that it was last May that the post was made,” he added. “So I am not permitted to get into the details of what the grand jury heard or found, as you know. But rest assured that it’s not just the Instagram post that leads somebody to get indicted.”
A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina indicted Comey on Tuesday for allegedly threatening President Trump. The three-page indictment states that by posting the shell formation, Comey “did knowingly and willfully make a........