social media post<\/a>, referencing the former FBI director, a Democratic senator and New York Attorney General Letitia James. \u201cThey\u2019re all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done.\u201d<\/p>\nTrump concluded his post by telling Bondi not to \u201cdelay any longer\u201d before pursuing the three critics.<\/p>\n
\u201cJUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Five days later, on September 25 of that year, Comey was indicted on charges of lying to Congress and obstructing a legislative proceeding.<\/p>\n
The case was ultimately dismissed on the basis that the prosecutor in charge, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed.<\/p>\n
A second indictment came on April 28. In that case, the Trump administration accused Comey of threatening the president by posting a photo on social media of seashells, arranged to form the message \u201c86 47\u201d.<\/p>\n
Forty-seven is a reference to Trump, the 47th president, and \u201c86\u201d is a rhyming word for \u201cnix\u201d, common in the service industry as code for throwing out a dish or customer.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration, however, has argued that \u201c86\u201d implies violence. That case is ongoing.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Monday, before the third set of charges was revealed, a federal judge in a separate case ruled that Comey\u2019s daughter, former assistant US attorney Maurene Comey, had been unlawfully fired last year under Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n
The younger Comey has maintained her termination was retaliation against her father. The court determined she was entitled to \u201cretroactive reinstatement\u201d and backpay.<\/p>\n
James Comey has denied all accusations of criminal wrongdoing, and his legal team has sought to have the latest set of charges dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is facing a third set of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1343,141,80,49,50,229,51,47,52,48,158,3544],"class_list":["post-815053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-courts","tag-donald-trump","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}