The Korea Times
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is pleasing President Donald Trump by supporting a ridiculous indictment of former FBI Director James Comey over a benign photo. Maybe Blanche thinks this foolishness will prevent him from being 86ed like Pam Bondi was, but even she didn’t try to sell a case of some seashells by the seashore. Blanche is debasing himself and the law in this shameful pursuit. The Justice Department under Bondi went after Comey months ago, but that collapsed when a federal judge ruled that the supposed U.S. attorney who brought it wasn’t even legally serving in her role. That first indictment was centered around Comey’s supposed false statements to Congress, but this one is truly dumb: it is based on Comey’s posting to Instagram of a photo of seashells on the seashore that he came across while vacationing. Yes, really. Usually, we would have to explain in some technical detail why something that the Trump DOJ is doing might be unprecedented or dangerous, but here the facts themselves are so obviously absurd that we imagine anyone could intuitively grasp that this
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