{"id":23831,"date":"2026-04-29T00:41:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/dems-melt-down-over-comey-indictment\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:41:39","slug":"dems-melt-down-over-comey-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/dems-melt-down-over-comey-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Melt Down Over Comey Indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p>Democrats melted down Tuesday over the second indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, blasting the charges as politically motivated and claiming they reflect a weaponized Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifferent Trump defense lawyer running the DOJ, same old story. Weaponized justice. Vindictive prosecutions. Catering to an audience of one. Perverting the rule of law, one enemy at a time,\u201d Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenAdamSchiff\/status\/2049254370101858394?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bemoaned on social media.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Different Trump defense lawyer running the DOJ, same old story.<\/p>\n<p>Weaponized justice. Vindictive prosecutions. Catering to an audience of one.<\/p>\n<p>Perverting the rule of law, one enemy at a time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9APAlbbuqj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/9APAlbbuqj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenAdamSchiff\/status\/2049254370101858394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) questioned the quality of the FBI investigation, calling it a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tedlieu\/status\/2049243658054971565?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201closer case.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid agents print out the seashells picture and look at it upside down? Send it for DNA testing? [Acting Attorney General Todd] Blanche is bringing this loser case again to kiss trump\u2019s (sic) ass,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is an asinine statement by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DAGToddBlanche?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DAGToddBlanche<\/a>, that there was \u201ca lot of work by law enforcement over the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Did agents print out the seashells picture and look at it upside down? Send it for DNA testing?<\/p>\n<p>Blanche is bringing this loser case again to kiss trump\u2019s ass. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PQQxNUToJb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/PQQxNUToJb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedlieu\/status\/2049235697316327479?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker escalated the criticism, slamming President Donald Trump as an \u201cauthoritarian\u201d and accusing his administration of stripping Americans of their rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president, on the other hand, is literally using the Department of Justice to take people to prison. He is indicting people and prosecuting people for no reason other than they are his opponents. So there\u2019s a big difference in what each side is doing here,\u201d Pritzker said in an interview with NBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may take us a couple of years, in fact, to go after people like Kash Patel, like Kristi Noem, like Tom Homan, like Greg Bovino, but we are coming after them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today on Meet the Press Now, JB Pritzker calls President Trump an \u201cauthoritarian, and if we are not pushing back every single day, then we\u2019re doing it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few seconds later, Pritzker threatens Trump admin officials: \u201cIt may take us a couple of years, in fact, to go after\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UxrRHq1L6R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/UxrRHq1L6R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/2049241692373450788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark Elias, a prominent Democratic attorney, warned the case signals a lasting shift at the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not talking about indicting a ham sandwich. We\u2019re literally talking about indicting someone over seashells on the beach. Who knows what\u2019s going to happen? Who knows who they\u2019ll go after next?\u201d Elias said on MSNOW.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 NOW: Leftist cheating election lawyer Marc Elias WARNS of possible DOJ RETRIBUTION if Democrats take power again<\/p>\n<p>Elias is known for MASS SUING Republican laws that safeguard elections \u2014 and is also targeting Florida<\/p>\n<p>VOTE AGAINST THEM IN NOVEMBER! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tTyzPQrsFu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/tTyzPQrsFu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/2049253000321855991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The outrage comes after a federal grand jury <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nced.227449\/gov.uscourts.nced.227449.1.0_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returned a two-count felony indictment and arrest warrant<\/a> against Comey, accusing him of making threats to kill or harm President Trump and transmitting those threats across state lines using social media.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy centers on a provocative Instagram post shared by the former FBI chief last year. Comey\u2019s photo showed seashells arranged to form the numbers \u201c86\u201d and \u201c47\u2033 on a North Carolina beach. In the restaurant world, \u201c86\u201d generally means to take out or eliminate, and \u201c47\u201d was a presumptive reference to Trump, the 47th president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/jamescomey.substack.com\/p\/seashells?r=16z5v&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video posted to his Substack<\/a>, Comey denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, they\u2019re back. This time, about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina Beach a year ago, and this won\u2019t be the end of it, but nothing has changed with me. I\u2019m still innocent, I\u2019m still not afraid, and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary, so let\u2019s go,\u201d Comey said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dems-melt-down-over-comey-indictment\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats melted down Tuesday over the second indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, blasting the charges as politically motivated and claiming they reflect a weaponized Department of Justice. \u201cDifferent Trump defense lawyer running the DOJ, same old story. Weaponized justice. Vindictive prosecutions. Catering to an audience of one. Perverting the rule of law, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}