President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Iran admitted its country is crumbling following various American bombing campaigns and a U.S. naval blockade of ships going to and from the country […]

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Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted for a second time, CNN first reported on Tuesday.

The Justice Department confirmed the indictment later Tuesday afternoon in a press conference.

“A grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of North Carolina returned an indictment against James Comey on two counts. The first count is that on or about May 15 of last year, he knowingly and wilfully made a threat to take the life of and to inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a press conference late Tuesday afternoon. 

The second charge is that Comey “knowingly and wittingly transmitted interstate commerce a communication that contained a threat to kill the president of the United States.”

Blanche said the two counts carry a maximum of 10 years imprisonment.

CNN reported that the charges are connected to Comey’s photo posted online of a sea shell arrangement that said “8647,” which was viewed as a threat to Trump, the 47th president.

Comey played a role in the Russia investigation into President Donald Trump, examining alleged ties between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. Comey was appointed as FBI director by President Barack Obama and has been a critic of Trump after the president fired him in 2017.

The Justice Department has not formally announced the indictment.

Comey was previously indicted Sept. 25 for making a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.

This story is developing and will be updated.

U.S. — Members of the national media remained completely baffled as to the target or motive of a gunman carrying a detailed, 47-page manifesto entitled "Why I'm Going To Kill Donald J. Trump."

Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) is upping his rhetoric against President Donald Trump, referring to the duly elected commander-in-chief as "America's chief insurrectionist" just days after yet another failed assassination attempt.

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Damon Jones, a longtime NBA vet and friend of LeBron James, entered a guilty plea in federal court on Tuesday for his role in the blockbuster federal gambling probe that rocked the NBA last year.

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A special education teacher in Nevada is accused of having a sexual relationship with a child for two years, with some of the encounters happening in a cemetery.

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The Justice Department responded Tuesday after the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a complaint in federal district court demanding an apology from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for making allegedly false statements.

Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy charges for allegedly paying members of the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations while claiming to be dismantling these groups. The indictment also claims the SPLC set up shell companies to hide these transactions. The SPLC, for its part, claims it had paid informants for information that “saved lives.”

The SPLC claimed that Blanche lied about the informant program by denying knowledge of the center turning over information to law enforcement.

“A grand jury heard only a portion of the evidence against SPLC and chose to indict on 11 counts,” a Justice Department spokesperson told The Daily Signal on Tuesday. “These issues will all be litigated in court and the government remains confident in its case.”

The Justice Department was responding to a filing the SPLC made Tuesday with the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Alabama. The center requested an order “directing the government to (1) retract the false and unfairly prejudicial statement that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made on Fox News regarding the allegations against the SPLC; and (2) refrain from making any further false or otherwise prejudicial statements that compromise the SPLC’s fair trial rights.”

The SPLC flagged two statements Blanche made on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” last week.

Blanche said, “There’s no allegation or information in the indictment that suggests [the SPLC] shared [the information from the informants] with law enforcement,” and, “There’s no information that we have that suggests that the money they were paying to these informants and these members of these organizations, they then turned around and shared what they learned with law enforcement.”

“To the contrary, or else we would have known, from their own words, that they had given money to these guys,” he added. “And we didn’t know.”

The SPLC maintains, however, that its attorneys “provided information to the government demonstrating unequivocally that the SPLC had shared information from its informants with law enforcement.”

The SPLC’s attorneys sent a letter to the U.S. attorney, asking that Blanche “publicly retract the statement.” The SPLC also claimed that the statement “gives rise to the concern that the grand jury heard evidence which incorrectly represented that the SPLC never shared information from informants with the government.”

The legal document goes on to reveal more about the case, including a Feb. 25 meeting between federal prosecutors and the SPLC discussing the informant program.

On April 6, the SPLC’s lawyers shared information about the program, highlighting that it resulted in an indictment against a member of the extremist group Vanguard America. The individual in question received a prison sentence.

The SPLC letter responding to Blanche’s statements cites another case, in which the center provided information to law enforcement leading to the 2020 arrest of a member of the white supremacist group Atomwaffen Division, who had intended to carry out a terrorist attack in Las Vegas, targeting a synagogue.

“The Department of Justice is well aware that the SPLC provided helpful information, through the use of its confidential informants, to law enforcement,” the SPLC motion states.

The motion cites the Alabama Rules of Professional Conduct for attorneys, suggesting Blanche broke them and demanding the court require the government to apologize. The motion also suggests that Blanche’s statements aimed to influence the outcome of a potential trial.

The SPLC motion also cites statements from President Donald Trump, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and others.

“Whether by design or independently, these communications are being published and amplified on platforms that are widely consumed by the jury pool that will be called upon to adjudicate the actual allegations against the SPLC that are contained in the indictment.”

Neither the White House nor the SPLC immediately responded to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.

A new report claims that the  Federal Communications Commission will be putting some pressure on Disney’s TV stations as a response to Jimmy Kimmel’s slam against Melania Trump. According to […]

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Saturday night's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which marks the third targeting of President Donald Trump in the last two years, comes after years of mainstream and vitriolic anti-Trump rhetoric from celebrities, pundits, and Democrat officials.

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A mentally ill illegal alien, accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death, has had murder charges against him dismissed and will now be deported from the United States.

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ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is facing heavy backlash for doubling down on his tasteless “joke” about Melania Trump being a widow, and his excuse is more pathetic than his […]

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