Patel Remarks on Indictment of Former FBI Director James Comey
April 28, 2026 · FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation · 0:01:36
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What happened
FBI Director Kash Patel spoke at an April 28, 2026 press conference at the U.S. Department of Justice announcing charges against former FBI Director James Comey, according to the FBI; the FBI’s description says Patel joined Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and W. Ellis Boyle, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Patel said Comey had been indicted on two felony counts, as he stated it.
Patel said the case had been investigated over the past nine, ten, or eleven months by career agents and prosecutors who, in his account, called the balls and strikes as they saw fit under the facts and the law, and presented the matter to a grand jury in the district where the alleged crime took place, which returned the two-count indictment, as he stated it. He said Comey allegedly threatened the life of the President of the United States, posted that threat, then deleted it and issued an apology, and that all of that information was presented to the grand jury, as he stated it.
Patel said threats investigations receive the same investigative measure regardless of who is involved, and that Comey would be afforded every matter of due process under the Constitution and his day in court before a jury of his peers, as he stated it.
Why it matters
The remarks are the FBI director’s own framing of an extraordinary prosecution — a former director indicted over an alleged threat against the sitting president — including his stated account of the grand jury process and the investigation’s length, all of which the court record will test.
Scoreboard watch
Patel stated that a grand jury returned a two-count indictment after a nine-to-eleven-month investigation, as he stated it — a verdict-worthy case whose filings and outcome are checkable in the Eastern District of North Carolina record.
Sources: FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Director Patel’s Remarks on Indictment of Former FBI Director Comey”, 2026-04-28 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-04-28). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.
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