{"id":1944,"date":"2026-07-29T18:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:09:27","slug":"james-comey-accuses-doj-of-lying-and-vindictive-prosecution-in-seashell-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1944","title":{"rendered":"James Comey Accuses DOJ of Lying and \u2018Vindictive\u2019 Prosecution in Seashell Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Attorneys for former FBI director James Comey accused Justice Department officials of misleading judges, omitting key facts and making false statements in their case charging him with threatening to kill President Donald Trump via a social media post.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1942\">Trump Promises Iran Would \u2018Get a Beating\u2019 After Attack on U.S. Forces<\/a><\/p><p>In    late Tuesday, Comey\u2019s lawyers also argued the Justice Department had improperly singled out Comey for prosecution because Trump was upset that Comey had publicly criticized him.<\/p>\n<p>The motions \u2013 hundreds of pages in all \u2013 attacked a central theory in the government\u2019s case and sought to suppress some evidence, allow Comey\u2019s attorneys to review grand jury transcripts and dismiss the indictment as a vindictive and selective prosecution.<\/p><p>The indictment \u201cis not based on a good faith application of the law to the facts,\u201d Comey\u2019s lawyers wrote in one of the motions. \u201cInstead, it effectuates a yearslong campaign by the President to use the criminal process to punish Mr. Comey for his protected speech and because of the President\u2019s deep-seated animosity.\u201d<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>Trending<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mackenzie.Trump\" class=\"wp-image-1918\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bde86e68ff8325150594734c6f49cb5e-768x512.jpeg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bde86e68ff8325150594734c6f49cb5e-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bde86e68ff8325150594734c6f49cb5e-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bde86e68ff8325150594734c6f49cb5e.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Megadonor Received Trump Pardon Three Days After Donation to Pennsylvania Congressman\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bronze Horses 07\" class=\"wp-image-1938\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0baf97be3b60d997ca26844a36064671-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0baf97be3b60d997ca26844a36064671-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0baf97be3b60d997ca26844a36064671-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0baf97be3b60d997ca26844a36064671.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      The Trump Administration Is Spending $5 Million to Coat Horse Statues in Gold\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AP 25301575600177\" class=\"wp-image-1926\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d6b96bbff409b9257a480cb772f8d974-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d6b96bbff409b9257a480cb772f8d974-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d6b96bbff409b9257a480cb772f8d974-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d6b96bbff409b9257a480cb772f8d974.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Debbie Wasserman Schultz\u2019s Run Is Infuriating Black Democrats. She Might Win Anyway.\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin speaks during an interview.\" class=\"wp-image-1869\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f5f650f03779ee66075b71a263c2d933-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f5f650f03779ee66075b71a263c2d933-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f5f650f03779ee66075b71a263c2d933-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f5f650f03779ee66075b71a263c2d933.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      The DNC Lost Nearly $29,000 to an Email Scammer Posing as Ken Martin\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The filings are the <span><u>second this week<\/u><\/span> from Comey\u2019s legal team and represent a sweeping attempt to cut short a case that Trump\u2019s critics say is emblematic of the president\u2019s retribution agenda. In a separate motion on Monday, Comey asked the judge overseeing the case to throw out the charges, arguing his post did not constitute a true threat.<\/p><p>A White House spokesperson referred questions about the case to the Justice Department, which doesn\u2019t typically discuss pending cases. A Justice Department spokesperson didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.<\/p><p>Comey\u2019s lawyers zeroed in on the extensive efforts federal investigators made over nearly a year to turn up evidence that Comey intended to threaten Trump\u2019s life when he uploaded a photo to Instagram of seashells spelling \u201c86 47.\u201d<\/p><p>Echoing claims from Trump\u2019s allies that the slogan was a call to violence, prosecutors alleged that \u201c86\u201d had roots in organized crime as jargon for \u201ckill\u201d and that Comey would have known this from his time investigating and prosecuting mobsters. They say the \u201c47\u201d represents Trump as the 47th president.<\/p>\n<p>But Comey\u2019s lawyers said investigators found no such connection, despite spending months combing through case files and organized-crime trial transcripts and interviewing experts to substantiate the theory.<\/p><p>\u201cThose efforts, which preceded the government\u2019s applications for the warrants, failed to find any evidence proving that Mr. Comey learned that \u201886\u2019 means \u2018kill\u2019 in the organized crime context \u2014 because it does not,\u201d the lawyers wrote.<\/p><p>The FBI case agent who applied for the warrants, which sought records from Apple ID and Gmail accounts associated with Comey and his wife, Patrice Comey, made no mention of investigators\u2019 failed searches, despite having personally ordered it, according to the filings.<\/p><p>The omission, Comey\u2019s lawyers said, \u201cis all the more egregious because all of those investigations supported Mr. Comey\u2019s assertion that he did not recall ever hearing \u201886\u2019 used to mean \u2018kill\u2019 during his prosecutorial days.\u201d<\/p><p>Comey\u2019s filings include a blistering  from John Gleeson, a former federal prosecutor and judge in Brooklyn who tried crime boss John Gotti. He said he\u2019d never heard a mafia member use the term \u201c86,\u201d nor had it come up in reference to killing in his thousands of hours of conversations with mafia witnesses.<\/p><p>\u201cThe claim that \u201886\u2019 is mafia jargon for \u2018kill\u2019 is preposterous,\u201d Gleeson wrote. \u201cIn my expert opinion, there is literally no support for the central allegation on which the case rests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comey\u2019s lawyers also said the Justice Department had \u201cdistorted\u201d statements from an unidentified associate of the Comeys who spoke with Secret Service and FBI agents. The affidavits claimed that the person \u201cimmediately\u201d thought \u201c86\u201d could have been a call to violence, when in fact the person told investigators that they initially viewed the term as benign restaurant lingo, according to the lawyers.<\/p><p>The person had no insight into Comey\u2019s mental state, having not spoken to him in two years, and had been exposed to a false claim that \u201c86\u201d had been used to indicate violence in cases Comey had prosecuted, according to the filings. And the person had told investigators that they hoped Comey \u201cgoes to jail\u201d and described their views about Comey as \u201cspeculation,\u201d his lawyers said.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1941\">Iran-Focused U.S.-Israel Meeting Sidelines Allies\u2019 Other Disagreements<\/a><\/p><p>\u201cThese inconvenient facts \u2014 all disproving the government\u2019s central theory, and all known to the agent who sought the warrants \u2014 appeared nowhere in the affidavits seeking to obtain the private digital records of Mr. Comey and his wife,\u201d his lawyers wrote.<\/p><p>The lawyers also targeted what they said was a false implication in one of the warrants that one of Comey\u2019s lawyers had obstructed the investigation.<\/p><p>The lawyer, a former federal prosecutor, had sent a screenshot of the seashell photo to a Secret Service agent who informally requested it, according to the filing. The FBI\u2019s search warrant affidavit suggested that the lawyer had tried to conceal evidence in doing so, even though the agent had never asked for the original file.<\/p><p>Comey\u2019s lawyers are seeking what\u2019s known as a Franks hearing, in which a judge determines whether investigators lied or left out important facts to secure a search warrant.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate motion, his lawyers asked the court to force the government to turn over grand jury transcripts and audio recordings. They said the government\u2019s alleged omissions and false statements raised \u201ca significant risk that irregularities in the grand jury process influenced the grand jury to return an indictment.\u201d<\/p><p>Comey\u2019s lawyers also argued that the case should be thrown out because the Justice Department\u2019s prosecution was \u201cvindictive,\u201d \u201cselective,\u201d and designed to retaliate against Comey for publicly criticizing the president.<\/p><p>Vindictive prosecution is a legal doctrine in which a prosecutor improperly charges a person in retaliation for exercising legal rights such as free speech. Selective prosecution occurs when a prosecutor targets a person with charges that haven\u2019t been brought against people who did the same thing in similar situations.<\/p><p>Both practices are unconstitutional and represent serious prosecutorial misconduct, but they are difficult to prove in court. Federal judges have recognized broad discretion in how prosecutors bring cases, and defendants who raise vindictive or selective prosecution claims rarely prevail.<\/p><p>This is Comey\u2019s second indictment by Trump\u2019s Justice Department. Under heavy pressure from Trump, prosecutors in Virginia charged Comey last fall with lying to Congress. That case stemmed from his 2020 congressional testimony about alleged leaks to journalists related to FBI investigations of Trump and Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaigns.<\/p><p>Comey had argued vindictive and selective prosecution in that case, but <span>a judge dismissed<\/span> the case on the grounds that the lead prosecutor, White House appointee Lindsey Halligan, had no authority to bring the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated by the failed indictment and the pace of other prosecutions of high-profile figures, Trump in April fired then-attorney general Pam Bondi and allowed her deputy, Todd Blanche, to assume the role on an acting basis.<\/p><p>Under Blanche, who served as Trump\u2019s criminal lawyer between presidencies, the Justice Department <span>indicted<\/span> Comey again in North Carolina, this time on counts of threats against the president and making threats across state lines. Several weeks after the new indictment was filed, Trump nominated Blanche to be attorney general.<\/p><p>When Comey posted the \u201c86 47\u201d image last year, many of Trump\u2019s allies claimed it was a call for the president\u2019s murder. Comey denied he had any violent intent, saying the message was political, and quickly deleted the post. Secret Service agents interviewed him in Washington shortly after.<\/p><p>Comey\u2019s lawyers said in their filing Monday that \u201c86 47\u201d has become a well known and widely used political slogan expressing opposition to Trump with no significant violent connotations.<\/p><p>The government\u2019s claim of a \u201ctrue threat,\u201d they wrote, \u201cis contradicted by every possible source of meaning: dictionaries, context, precedent, and common sense.\u201d<br\/><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1939\">Trump Administration Announces Another Data Center on Federal Land<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former FBI director\u2019s lawyers seek to suppress evidence and dismiss the indictment over an \u201c86 47\u201d social media post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump-white-house"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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