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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-28T18:16:55.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Breaking News",
    "Politics",
    "Republican Party",
    "Donald Trump",
    "James Comey",
    "FBI",
    "Indictment",
    "Department of Justice",
    "Todd Blanche",
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    "Lindsey Halligan",
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  "textContent": "The Department of Justice just indicted former FBI Director James Comey again. This time, it’s over an Instagram post. No, seriously.\n\nAlmost a year ago, Comey drew massive backlash from the right after he posted a picture of seashells arranged on the beach in North Carolina that read, “8647.” He claimed he’d come across the shells, already arranged, while taking a walk and assumed it was a political message. Some accused the former FBI director of calling to “86,” or kill, the forty-seventh president, Donald Trump.\n\n_The New York Times_ reported Tuesday that the government had indicted Comey in relation to the post. It was not immediately clear what the specific charges were.\n\nAt the time, the Secret Service tracked Comey down on vacation with his family. He deleted the post and apologized. “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down,” he said last year.\n\nKristi Noem, then-secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard both called for Comey to be jailed. Speaking to Fox News in May, Trump dismissed Comey’s apology: “He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant.”\n\nThe government’s first indictment of Comey for allegedly giving false testimony and obstructing a probe about the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election quickly fell apart at the seams last year.\n\nThe seemingly flimsy case was initially plagued by warnings from prosecutors that there wasn’t enough evidence to indict Comey in the first place, and concerns around how evidence had been handled. Eventually, a judge ruled that U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan had been improperly appointed, and the indictments she’d signed for Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were subsequently voided.\n\n_This story has been updated._",
  "title": "Trump Indicts James Comey for a Second Time"
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