Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday that former FBI Director James Comey wasn’t just indicted for his “86 47” seashell social media post.
“Rest assured that the career assistant United States attorneys in North Carolina, the career FBI agents, the career Secret Service agents that investigated this case didn’t just look at the Instagram post and walk away,” Blanche told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday morning.
Blanche added that it’s “why you saw an indictment last week, notwithstanding the fact that it was last May that the post was made.”
“So I am not permitted to get into the details of what the grand jury heard or found, as you know,” he said. “But rest assured that it’s not just the Instagram post that leads somebody to get indicted.”…