00:00Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted, not for leaking secrets, not for lying to
00:05Congress, but for a picture of seashells. Full update in one minute on News Plus Globe.
00:09You are watching News Plus Globe. On Tuesday the Justice Department announced felony charges
00:14against Comey. The alleged threat. An Instagram post from almost a year ago showing seashells
00:21arranged as 86-47. Let's go. First, what are the charges? Comey faces two felony counts.
00:29One for making a threat to take the life of the president, another for transmitting a threat
00:33across state lines. Each charge carries up to 10 years in prison. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
00:39announced the indictment on Tuesday. Now, the 86-47 controversy. Last May, Comey posted a photo of
00:49seashells he found on a North Carolina beach walk. The shells were arranged to form the numbers 86-47.
00:5686 is slang meaning to eject, remove, or get rid of someone. Trump is the 47th president.
01:03Trump and his allies said it was a veiled threat. Trump told Fox News. He knew exactly what that
01:09meant. A child knows what that meant. That meant assassination. Comey's response? He deleted the
01:16post and apologized at the time. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence.
01:22It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind, so I took the post down.
01:27On Tuesday, he posted a video statement. I'm still innocent, I'm still not afraid,
01:33and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary, so let's go.
01:37That is your James Comey update. This is his second indictment in months. A separate case from September
01:43was dismissed by a judge, now the Justice Department is trying again.
01:48Comment below. Is this a real threat or political revenge?
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