Acting attorney general claims Comey 'threatened the life of the president' in announcing charges

At a news conference on Tuesday, Todd Blanche , the former defense lawyer for Donald Trump now serving as acting US attorney general, just announced the filing of two charges against James Comey , the former FBI director and deputy attorney general for allegedly “knowing and willfully making a threat to kill” the president of the United States in a social media post.

The two-page indictment filed in North Carolina claimed Comey “did knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon, the President of the United States, in that he publicly posted a photograph on the internet social media site Instagram which depicted seashells arranged in a pattern making out ‘86 47’ which a reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the President of the United States.”

The number 86 can be used as…