WASHINGTON, April 30 — Former FBI director James Comey surrendered to authorities in Virginia on Wednesday after being charged with threatening President Donald Trump’s life...
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— AFP pic! Plus, enjoy an additional FREE RM10 when you sign up using code VERSAMM10 with a min. cash-in of RM100 today. T&Cs apply. WASHINGTON, April 30 — Former FBI director James Comey surrendered to authorities in Virginia on Wednesday after being charged with threatening President Donald Trump’s life with a social media post.
Comey, an outspoken critic of the US president who faced other federal charges that were subsequently thrown out, posted a photo to Instagram in May 2025 of seashells arranged in the shape of the numbers 86 and 47 on a beach in North Carolina. Comey faces one count of “wilfully making a threat to take the life of and to inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States” and another of making an interstate threat.
The former FBI director appeared for a hearing in Alexandria, Virginia, where he did not enter a plea and was later allowed to leave. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, speaking to reporters, said he did not know when Comey’s next court appearance would be. Blanche defended the indictment when asked if anyone who posted the numbers “8647” would face charges.
“Every threats case is different,” he said. “Every time there is a threat against the president it doesn’t necessarily lead to an indictment. A now-deleted image from James Comey’s Instagram page shows sea shells arranged into numbers. Comey apologised at the time for the Instagram post and said he “didn’t realise some folks associate those numbers with violence.
”In September, Comey was charged with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding in what was widely seen as retribution by the Republican president against a political opponent. A federal judge threw out that case on the grounds the prosecutor handpicked by Trump who brought the charges was unlawfully appointed. Senator Dick Durbin called the charges “baseless” and “petty retribution.
” “This is another case of a weaponised Justice Department lashing out on behalf of a vengeful president,” Durbin said in a statement. During his tenure, he oversaw the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, among other notable cases.
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