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2026-04-29 Government Corruption

James Comey indicted again as DOJ probe deepens into ex-FBI chief

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Posted by Besoeker 2026-04-29 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1842 views ] Top

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Comey played sea shells by the seashore.
Will he get a Gitmo view by the seashore?

Posted by NN2N1 2026-04-29 00:50|| 2026-04-29 00:50|| Front Page Top

2 ^How psychotic you've to be to pull something as childish as this?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-04-29 02:35|| 2026-04-29 02:35|| Front Page Top

3 He focused the power of the FBI against the post inauguration Trump Administration for political reasons. He knew the Steele Dosier was BS. He’s being indicted for seashells.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-04-29 05:55|| 2026-04-29 05:55|| Front Page Top

4 DOJ Ups Ante, Issues Arrest Warrant for Former FBI Director James Comey

Posted by Skidmark 2026-04-29 08:34|| 2026-04-29 08:34|| Front Page Top

5 What did the Grand Jury see or hear that made them think Comey should be indicted?

Based on what is being reported so far this is a very weak case.

Posted by Chantry 2026-04-29 08:57|| 2026-04-29 08:57|| Front Page Top

6 Ham sandwich, move over...

Posted by European Conservative 2026-04-29 09:24|| 2026-04-29 09:24|| Front Page Top

7 Watch him go coy and blame the picture on AI.

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-04-29 09:30|| 2026-04-29 09:30|| Front Page Top

8 Hopefully he'll eat cheese on Clapper, Soetoro, Brennen, and the Hildebeast. I'm fine with immunity if he does.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-04-29 10:48|| 2026-04-29 10:48|| Front Page Top

9 It seems that Jack Posobiec posted on X, ‘8646.’

You could say that nobody took a shot at Biden but that's beside the point.

I don't know much about Posobiec but I'd be willing to sacrifice him just to see Comey in a federal lockup. The rhetoric has gotten far too inflammatory and it's no surprise that acts of violence have followed. Examples must be made.

For that matter, I'd like to see Schumer indicted for some of his remarks about the intel having six ways to Sunday or SCOTUS releasing the whirlwind and paying the price. Not cool, Chuck. Not cool at all.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-04-29 11:41|| 2026-04-29 11:41|| Front Page Top

10 They shouldn't have let Kathy Griffin get away with that little meme of hers either.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-04-29 11:44|| 2026-04-29 11:44|| Front Page Top

11 Had to ask my American daughter about "86" and she said it means "throw something or someone out". Just because there might be some slang use doesn't mean you can't construe it to mean what you want it to mean.

Otherwise you could also prosecute someone for saying "we need to get rid of the President". If a mafia boss tells his underlings "to get rid of traitor Rico", that will certainly mean something less innocent.

Context matters. In dubio pro 1-A. I think a judge will throw this out before it gets to a jury. And you should hope that he/she does.

Posted by European Conservative 2026-04-29 11:50|| 2026-04-29 11:50|| Front Page Top

12 Yeah, well, wake me up went someone goes to trial, let alone goes to jail.

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-04-29 11:52|| 2026-04-29 11:52|| Front Page Top

13 What they aren't telling you, is that he shared it from the logo of some people who are literally murderously anti-trump.

Like buying a sportsball jersey, and being surprised it is a sportsball jersey and not just some clever design.

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-04-29 12:10|| 2026-04-29 12:10|| Front Page Top

14 They shouldn't have let Kathy Griffin get away with that little meme of hers either.

And there was Snoop Dogg's music video where a Trump parody was executed.

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-04-29 12:23|| 2026-04-29 12:23|| Front Page Top

15 EC, your daughter is incorrect. The term is generally understood to mean “kill” not throw out, particularly if there is no context that would indicate a milder reference.

Posted by Remoteman 2026-04-29 13:51|| 2026-04-29 13:51|| Front Page Top

16 Bee: James Comey Produces Letter Signed By 51 Former Intelligence Officials Saying He's Totally Innocent

Posted by Frank G 2026-04-29 13:56|| 2026-04-29 13:56|| Front Page Top

17 ^😎

Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-04-29 14:02|| 2026-04-29 14:02|| Front Page Top

18 @Remoteman
If it were "generally understood" that way I guess Merriam Webster would know. Looks like it doesn't.

Amazon has this for sale: 8646 Impeach Biden 86 46 Anti Biden Joe Biden 46th President Sweatshirt

Posted by European Conservative 2026-04-29 14:22|| 2026-04-29 14:22|| Front Page Top

19 Deliberately misleading use of slang for in-group signalling, European Conservative. The formal definition is more benign, the intended meaning understood within the in-group — with a great deal of snickering at how cleverly they're fooling the normies — is deliberately edgy and nasty.

Remember back when the Left was going on about tea-bagging during the TEA Party period? Trailing daughter #1 insisted to me that TEA partiers were all deliberately celebrating a homosexual act, because she’d read that in Reddit chats. It took a bit of conversation for her to accept that there are people who do not marinate in alternate behaviours to go along with wishing the budget were balanced.

Another is the use of Jooooos or juices to fool language models looking for antisemitism on social media. The dictionary definition of juice has nothing to do with the meaning among Jew-haters.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-04-29 14:39|| 2026-04-29 14:39|| Front Page Top

20 I use "Juice" ironically myself, so have many people on Rantburg.

Sorry, no. This is the most ridiculous example of prosecution I've ever heard of.

Posted by European Conservative 2026-04-29 14:49|| 2026-04-29 14:49|| Front Page Top

21 “This is not going anywhere. This is clearly not a punishable threat,” Eugene Volokh, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University who specializes in First Amendment law, told CNN Tuesday.

Posted by European Conservative 2026-04-29 15:57|| 2026-04-29 15:57|| Front Page Top

22 I use "Juice" ironically myself, so have many people on Rantburg.

I use it to mock those who use it to beat the censors. But that doesn’t change the fact that those who used it originally were messaging to like-minded haters.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-04-29 16:05|| 2026-04-29 16:05|| Front Page Top

23 #16 Good one.

#12 After watching this for a long time as have others here, I'm doubtful that anything will happen other than annoying Comey and maybe making him cough up a little money to defend himself. The Deepstate protects itself much like the Praetorian Guard protected the Roman Empire. It seems like there were other things to go after him for that would yield more fruit.

Posted by JohnQC 2026-04-29 16:41|| 2026-04-29 16:41|| Front Page Top

24 Actually, for a while I believed that these people were simply too stupid to spell the word correctly.

Posted by European Conservative 2026-04-29 16:42|| 2026-04-29 16:42|| Front Page Top

25 I picked up 'Juice' after seeing a pic of some bearded dude wearing man-jammies at a protest holding a sign that read "Death to Juice". I still find that hilarious. And worthy of mockery.

The Comey thing seems like pretty weak sauce. Makes me wonder how the prosecutor got a grand jury to go along. Is there possibly more to the story?

Posted by SteveS 2026-04-29 16:54|| 2026-04-29 16:54|| Front Page Top

26 Indeed SteveS, that's when I picked it up as well.

Posted by European Conservative 2026-04-29 17:29|| 2026-04-29 17:29|| Front Page Top

27 and I. Ignorance is contagious among the Paleo Protesters, apparently

Posted by Frank G 2026-04-29 17:37|| 2026-04-29 17:37|| Front Page Top

28 Is that what the new indictment is about; the article sure implies it but knowing how they do things, the article kind of weasels around it.

Guess there are also 8645 shirts; first I came across the term was video of a mostly peaceful blamtifa event and it was graffiti tagged everywhere.

I remember when the world turned to lava when a rodeo clown wore a shitty Obama mask, so if so, fine, let him sit in the seat and pretend to be derpy coy and show himself the lying sack of shit he is, while bigger charges make their way.

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-04-29 17:38|| 2026-04-29 17:38|| Front Page Top

29 What about his treason?

Posted by Woodrow 2026-04-29 21:52|| 2026-04-29 21:52|| Front Page Top

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