Trump’s retribution tour: Comey, Indiana Republicans, and ABC
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This episode: voting correspondent Miles Parks, Supreme Court and justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and senior political correspondent Tamara Keith.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Carrie Johnson. I cover the Justice Department in the Supreme Court. And I'm Tamara Keith, and I cover politics. |
| 0:13.8 | And a happy Friday to both of you and all our listeners. We're going to talk about some of the big stories that we haven't hit on the pod yet. |
| 0:20.0 | Starting with news of another indictment against former FBI director James Comey. |
| 0:26.2 | Carrie, what is the Justice Department alleging Comey did here? |
| 0:29.9 | Comey faces two felony charges for allegedly making a threat on the life of President Donald Trump in transmitting that threat across state lines. |
| 0:39.5 | It all revolves around an Instagram post he put up almost a year ago from a North Carolina |
| 0:46.1 | beach where he was on vacation. It's a photo of seashells arranged in the numbers 86, 47. |
| 0:53.5 | 86 being slang for get rid of and 47 representing the 47th |
| 0:58.6 | President Donald Trump. Now, the Justice Department says that's a credible or true threat against |
| 1:04.6 | the president of the United States. But Comey deleted that post pretty quickly after he put it up last year. And he said he had no idea |
| 1:13.3 | those numbers could potentially have been connected to violence. He didn't mean that. |
| 1:19.3 | Moreover, you know, the term 86 has been around a long time in the restaurant industry and the |
| 1:24.7 | bar industry. And also, there are a lot of people around the country |
| 1:28.6 | who have t-shirts and posters about 86, 86 Trump, 86 Biden. So if you were going to make a |
| 1:36.4 | literal federal case out of this, presumably it would sweep up lots and lots and lots of other |
| 1:42.1 | people, too. Has the legal community, the broader legal community, had any thoughts on this indictment coming out? |
| 1:47.9 | That is the biggest surprise to me, Miles. |
| 1:50.0 | What's happened here is not only former Justice Department officials coming out and saying, |
| 1:55.3 | this case is a huge stretch, but also people who are allied with the White House. |
| 2:00.3 | People like George Washington |
| 2:01.5 | University law professor Jonathan Turley, people like conservative legal analyst Andrew Napolitano, |
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