Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted for a second time, according to CNN and Fox News.
The exact charges are not clear; however, Fox News reported that the latest indictment is related to Comey’s Trump assassination Instagram post.
The second indictment comes after a judge dismissed Comey’s prior charges of false statements and obstruction based on the Constitution’s Appointments Clause.
🚨 BREAKING: James Comey indicted again, this time over controversial 2025 Instagram post seen as targeting Trump, sources tell @davidspunt pic.twitter.com/lp4RWP2fL1
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 28, 2026
CNN reported:
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted a second time by Trump’s Justice Department, two sources familiar told CNN.
The specific charges were not immediately clear.
President Donald Trump has long pressed for his political adversaries to face charges, including the former FBI director whom he believed to be a key player in the alleged effort to “weaponize” justice system against him.
In September of last year, the Justice Department first brought charges against Comey, accusing him of lying to Congress over leaks to the press. The case was dismissed late last year by a federal judge who found that the interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia had been improperly appointed, having skirted approval from the Senate.
Last year it was reported that James Comey was under investigation for calling for Trump to be killed in a cryptic Instagram post.
“Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” Comey said in his caption in May 2025.
Comey previously peddled a BS story explaining how he just stumbled upon a curious formation of shells as he was walking down the beach with his wife.
“We were walking on the beach, we went to the beach to prepare for this week… and we were walking back towards the road and we saw in the sand someone had arranged shells with numbers. And Patrice, my wife, said, ‘why would someone put an address in the sand?’ and I said, ‘I don’t know’ and we stood over and I said, ‘I think it’s some kind of political message,’” Comey said.
Comey then threw his wife under the bus.
“She said you know, when I was a server – she did a lot of work in restaurants – meant to remove an item from the menu when you ran out of ingredients. And I said, ‘well to me, as a kid it always meant to leave a place, to ditch a place.’ And she said well that very clever you should take a picture of that and I did and posted it on my Instagram and though nothing more of it until I heard through her that people were saying that it was a call for some sort of assassination which is crazy!” Comey said.
