May 3 (UPI) -- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday that the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is not based solely on the "8647" post on Instagram that infuriated President Donald Trump.
The indictment is the product of a months-long investigation that was brought to a grand jury and, while it does include and refer to Comey's post of seashells on a beach arranged into the numbers, the case is not centered on that.
"This is not about a single Instagram post," Blanche said on NBC News' "Meet The Press."
"This is about a body of evidence collected over the series of about 11 months ... At the trial -- a public trial that will be open to the public -- everybody in this country will know exactly what evidence the government has against Mr. Comey," he said.
The Department of Justice on April 28 indicted Comey for what it alleges is a threat made against Trump, with the two-count indictment alleging that Comey knowingly and willfully made a threat on the life of the president through communication channels that constitute interstate commerce.
