The official now in charge of Donald Trump’s Justice Department and the president’s still-expanding campaign of federal prosecutions against his enemies, Todd Blanche, was grilled on Sunday over the latest entry on that list: The second indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.
Charged this past week with threatening to do harm to the president of the United States, Comey was previously FBI director until 2017, when he was fired by Trump over the investigation into the president’s 2016 presidential campaign. Last year, he posted on Instagram a photo showing seashells spelling out the numbers “86 47”, an apparent reference to calls to remove Trump from office.
