Former FBI Director James Comey surrendered to federal authorities on Wednesday after he was formally charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump. The charge stems from a formation of seashells Comey claims he found on a beach last May in the form of the number “8647”- “86” would be slang for killing someone, while “47” represents Trump, whose current administration is the 47th in American history. It is a charge that Comey steadfastly denies, and he has already dodged federal charges once before, in September. Jon Decker is the WOR White House correspondent. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Curtis Sliwa and Larry Mendte in the Morning program to discuss whether the charges against Comey will stick the second time around.
Larry asked Decker to address suspicions that Trump was behind the impetus to have Comey indicted, and whether the charge holds water: “Well, what he had to say was essentially that he agreed with the theory put forward by the Department of Justice, that what James Comey spelled out in those seashells on that shore in North Carolina, ‘86-47,’ were indeed, according to the President, a threat against him, a threat to essentially take him out. That’s what the President said yesterday in the Oval Office. Of course, that’s not what James Comey says, and it’s hard to prove intent, you know, which is a necessary component of proving these charges, and we’ll see where this goes. This could indeed be thrown out even before it gets to the point of a trial.”
Decker then addressed Curtis’s concern that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche might have filed the case to look good to the boss by going after his enemies: “The President hasn’t named his choice to be the Attorney General, but this indictment that was announced yesterday concerning this case against James Comey certainly goes a long way to, you know, winning favor with the President Donald Trump, and establishing that you should be the guy, if you’re Todd Blanche, to lead the Justice Department.”
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