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Blanche turns the tables on Comey indictment critics: ‘Rest assured’ case goes beyond Instagram post
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted Sunday that the indictment against former FBI Director James Comey rests on more than just an «8647» Instagram picture, saying new evidence would come to light in court to support the government’s claim that Comey’s post amounted to a criminal threat against the president.
Blanche provided the remarks during a «Meet the Press» interview as he was grilled about the credibility of the high-profile case and whether it was politically motivated. The charges hinge on whether prosecutors can prove the former FBI director’s intent, a key legal threshold. Blanche signaled the Department of Justice will present broader evidence in court to support the charge while rejecting claims the prosecution was driven by Trump’s past clashes with Comey.
«You prove intent like you always prove intent,» Blanche said. «You prove intent with witnesses. You prove intent with documents, with materials. … This is not just about a single Instagram post. This is about a body of evidence that the grand jury collected over the series of about 11 months.»
The term «86» is understood as slang to get rid of someone or something, rooted in restaurant usage for an unavailable item or refused customer. Prosecutors allege that, paired with «47» — a reference to Trump as the 47th president — Comey’s post amounted to a threat.
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Former FBI Director James Comey is vowing to fight the charges against him, with his attorney saying the former FBI director «vigorously denies» the allegations and plans to contest the case in court. (Cheriss May/NurPhoto)
Blanche noted that threatening the president was a common criminal charge. But he said the DOJ does not prosecute everyday mentions of «8647,» such as paraphernalia featuring the numbers being sold on Amazon, and that other factors were in play in Comey’s case.
«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. … So I am not permitted to get into the details of what the grand jury heard or found,» Blanche said. «But rest assured that it’s not just the Instagram post that leads somebody to get indicted.»
The DOJ brought two charges against Comey in federal court in North Carolina last week alleging an Instagram post he made last year of seashells on the beach amounted to a threat to harm or kill Trump.
The post prompted an outcry from social media users, who accused Comey of threatening Trump, his longtime political nemesis, leading Comey to immediately delete the image and issue an apology. Comey said at the time he did not realize the number «86» was associated with violence.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche spoke during a press conference alongside FBI Director Kash Patel at the Department of Justice on April 21, 2026, in Washington, D.C., following the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem responded by announcing that U.S. Secret Service would investigate the post, and Comey voluntarily met with federal agents at the time for an interview, though no charges were brought.
The case marks the Justice Department’s second recent prosecution of Comey, after a separate indictment alleging he lied to Congress was tossed on procedural grounds. The DOJ is appealing that decision.
Blanche was also questioned over whether Comey was charged because Trump explicitly called for the DOJ to bring criminal charges against him and other political foes in a Truth Social post last fall, calling them «guilty as hell» and saying «JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!»
«Do the American people think that nothing was done on those cases until President Trump posted that Truth in September?» Blanche asked. «No, these are ongoing investigations.»
James Comey posted a photo on Instagram showing him standing on a beach. (Fox News)
The latest indictment against Comey has faced widespread criticism as Democrats and some Republicans argue the charges present a free speech problem and do not rise to the «true threat» standard established by the Supreme Court. Comey’s attorney said in court that he plans to ask the judge to toss out the charges because they were selective and vindictive. Still, the DOJ and Trump allies are standing firmly behind the charges as they warn critics to wait to hear evidence before jumping to conclusions.
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Comey’s arraignment is slated for May 11 in Greenville.
Fox News Digital reached out to the DOJ and Comey’s lawyer for comment.
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Científicos captaron por primera vez el desgarro de una placa tectónica bajo el Pacífico canadiense
Por primera vez, un equipo de científicos de Estados Unidos, Suiza y Canadá capturó imágenes directas del subsuelo oceánico que muestran una placa tectónica en pleno proceso de ruptura bajo el océano Pacífico, frente a las costas de Canadá.
La subducción es el proceso por el cual una placa oceánica se hunde en el manto terrestre, la capa caliente y semisólida debajo de la corteza. Ese hundimiento genera una fuerza de tracción, que es el principal motor del movimiento de las placas tectónicas.
Los investigadores registraron ese proceso en la pequeña placa Explorador, un fragmento de corteza oceánica formado hace unos cuatro millones de años frente a la isla de Vancouver. Fue publicado en la revista Science Advances.
Hoy esa placa se hunde cada vez más lento bajo la placa Norteamericana y está en las etapas finales de su desacoplamiento.
La investigación fue liderada por Brandon Shuck, de la Universidad Estatal de Luisiana, con colegas de la Universidad de Columbia, la Universidad de Auburn, el Instituto de Geofísica de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, la Institución Oceanográfica Woods Hole, la Universidad de Dalhousie, la Universidad de Columbia Británica, la Universidad de Ginebra y la Universidad de Washington.
La placa de Juan de Fuca, que es vecina y más grande que la Explorador, se hunde a más de cuatro centímetros por año bajo Norteamérica. Eso es más del doble que la Explorador, que avanza apenas unos dos centímetros anuales.
Esa diferencia de ritmo generó una fractura lateral entre ambas: la Zona de Falla de Nootka (NFZ, por sus siglas en inglés).
La investigación buscaba entender cómo se forma y evoluciona esa frontera y qué ocurre con la losa de la placa Explorador debajo de la fosa, la depresión del fondo marino donde una placa se hunde bajo la otra. Nadie había podido fotografiar ese proceso con imágenes sísmicas de alta resolución hasta este estudio.
Para lograrlo, el equipo utilizó datos sísmicos de reflexión multicanal recolectados durante la expedición CASIE21 a bordo del buque Marcus G. Langseth en 2021.
La técnica funciona de forma similar a una ecografía: se envían ondas de sonido al fondo del mar y se registra cómo rebotan en las distintas capas de roca del subsuelo. Los científicos analizaron cuatro perfiles sísmicos que atraviesan la Zona de Falla de Nootka y las dos placas, combinados con catálogos de terremotos de la región.
Los datos revelaron que la NFZ es una red de fallas de unos 20 kilómetros de ancho que penetra desde los sedimentos superficiales hasta el manto superior.
La Zona de Falla de Nootka no surgió de repente: hace cuatro millones de años, las fuerzas de deformación reactivaron fallas antiguas en la corteza oceánica joven y generaron una franja de ruptura de más de 100 kilómetros de ancho.
Con el tiempo, esa deformación se concentró hasta formar la falla de transformación actual, donde dos placas se deslizan horizontalmente una junto a la otra sin que ninguna se hunda.
Debajo de la fosa, los datos revelaron dos grandes desgarros en la losa, desplazados unos 20 kilómetros entre sí. Los científicos proponen que ambos fueron originalmente uno solo, luego cortado por el movimiento lateral de la Zona de Falla de Nootka.
El desgarro de la placa Explorer es el más avanzado: una ruptura abrupta de más de tres kilómetros de desnivel vertical en apenas dos kilómetros de distancia horizontal. El de Juan de Fuca es más incipiente y se manifiesta como un pliegue gradual de la roca.
Bajo la isla de Vancouver, en el sector de la placa Explorer, no se detectan temblores ni terremotos de baja frecuencia, a diferencia del sector de Juan de Fuca. Ese contraste indica que la placa Explorer está en una etapa más avanzada de desacoplamiento.
Una vez que ese proceso se complete, la zona de subducción de Cascadia se acortará unos 75 kilómetros, equivalente a un doceavo de su longitud total. Los autores advierten que se necesitan más modelos geodinámicos para confirmar ese marco teórico.
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New York City Public Schools are under investigation by the Trump administration over allegations that a group of pro-Palestinian teachers sought to sow «hatred towards Jewish students» during classroom instruction.
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights announced its investigation into the nation’s largest public school system nearly two weeks ago after receiving reports that teachers were organizing seminars propping up the Palestinian resistance and labeling Zionists as «genocidal white supremacists.»
«No child should be taught by his or her teachers to hate their peers. Neither should Jewish children be taught that being Jewish somehow makes them inherently guilty or proponents of hate and violence,» Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said in a statement. «Discrimination has no place in our schools, and, unlike the previous Administration, the Trump Administration will not turn a blind eye to antisemitic harassment.»
The Education Department’s investigation into New York City Public Schools comes as NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani enters his fifth month in office. Mamdani has previously been heavily scrutinized for his anti-Israel rhetoric, having accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of committing war crimes and said Palestinians are facing a «genocide» perpetrated by the Jewish state. He also revoked an executive order that blocked New York City officials from boycotting or divesting in Israel and another executive order that expanded the definition of antisemitism.
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New York City public school students participated in a walkout on Friday, May 31, 2024. (Associated Press)
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s office.
At the center of the Education Department’s investigation is a group of educators known as NYC Educators for Palestine. The group’s mission statement centers on the belief that «education should be a tool for liberation not occupation» and that teachers should work «both inside and outside the classroom» to achieve Palestinian justice.
The Education Department noted the group’s teaching seminars focused on «Palestinian, Zionism, and Resistance» as a potential Title VI violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. During these seminars, which were taught to children as young as five, the educators focused on the «contemporary and historical Palestinian resistance.» Complaints alleged that the seminars depicted Zionists as «genocidal white supremacists» and that it gave credence to support Hamas and its «martyrs.»
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Zohran Mamdani announces new members of his team at the Brooklyn Public Library Greenpoint Branch in Brooklyn, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (Shawn Inglima/ New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
NYC Educators for Palestine also organized a «Teach-In for Palestine» set for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The «teach-in» was advertised for students as young as six.
Fox News Digital reached out to NYC Educators for Palestine for comment.
A spokesperson for New York City Public Schools denied the group’s affiliation with the school district.
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«The group referenced is not connected to New York City Public Schools,» a spokesperson said.
But a parent told Fox News that it seemed teachers were «so radicalized and so focused on sending messages like this [pro-Palestine] rather than focusing on really crucial skills like literacy and critical thinking.»
Masked students receive an in-person art lesson at Yung Wing School P.S. 124 in New York City on Jan. 5, 2022, as Mayor Eric Adams keeps classrooms open despite absences from a surge in Omicron cases. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
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The Education Department’s investigation into New York City Public Schools is just the latest investigation into allegations of antisemitism running rampant in public school districts across the country in the wake of the Gaza War.
Last August, the Trump administration launched an investigation into Baltimore City Public Schools for alleged antisemitic harassment. The investigation is still ongoing.
More than 60 colleges and higher education institutions have been notified by the Trump administration of pending investigations into the schools’ failures to properly address antisemitism on campus.
Fox News’ Lauren Green contributed to this report.
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