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Erin Burnett OutFront

DOJ: Comey’s Post Showing Seashells Amounts to Threat on Trump’s Life

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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3.9715 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Trump DOJ issues a warrant for former FBI Director James Comey making this the second time he’s been indicted this past year. Plus, ABC and the Trump administration face off over Jimmy Kimmel.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Out front next, breaking news. Former FBI director James Comey could be arrested any minute,

0:08.6

a warrant for his arrest just issued by Trump's DOJ, as Comey is indicted a second time by Trump prosecutors.

0:15.6

And more breaking news this hour, ABC and the Trump administration facing off over Jimmy Kimmel,

0:23.1

the FCC putting pressure on ABC stations, the network is not backing down, the FCC's lone Democratic commissioner is our guest,

0:29.2

and a reporter for the telegraph reports exclusively from the Strait of Hormuz and shows us

0:35.4

exactly what's happening with the U.S. blockade.

0:37.9

He says it's useless against Iran's swarm of speedboats.

0:41.8

Let's go out front.

0:45.8

And good evening and welcome to Outfront tonight.

0:48.8

The breaking news and arrest warrant has been issued for James Comey, the former FBI director,

0:53.6

someone Trump has made clear

0:54.7

as a political enemy that he would like to see prosecuted, is now going to be arrested any

1:00.1

moment.

1:00.5

That's what we could be about to witness an incredible and unprecedented moment.

1:05.3

The reality of the situation is that he's been charged with making a threat against

1:09.9

President Trump.

1:11.3

And that specific threat, of course, about those seashells that he posted on the beach when he posted a picture.

1:17.7

The two charges have to do with this specific post.

1:20.6

So let me just show it to you right now, the social media post that Comey posted about a year ago while vacationing.

1:27.4

And it is a photograph

1:28.7

sewing sea cells arranged to say 86-47. According to the indictment, a reasonable recipient

1:34.8

who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret it as a serious expression of an intent to do

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