Comey Shells Prosecution Is Drowning In Corruption
DOJ in disarray
This week, Jim Comey’s lawyers filed a raft of pretrial motions in the “86 47” seashells case. These include a motion to dismiss for lack of a true threat, motion to dismiss for vindictive and selective prosecution, motion to suppress and for a Franks hearing, motion to disclose grand jury proceedings, and an affidavit by Comey’s lawyer, Pat Fitzgerald, walking through 43 extraordinarily damning exhibits. Taken together, they show an abuse of the legal process that began the very day the former FBI director posted the offending photo on Instagram.
Trump’s lackeys at the DOJ started with the man and worked backward to the crime, as their boss demanded. Along the way, they leaned on Rudy Giuliani’s on-air gibbering, a source with an obvious axe to grind, and a mobster who admitted to nineteen murders.
It’s grossly corrupt, of course. It’s also hilariously embarrassing for every lawyer and federal agent associated with this epic bed-shitting. Because, however bad you thought the story might be when it finally came out, this is worse.
Cool shells, bro
On May 15, 2025, Comey and his wife were walking on the beach in Emerald Isle when they came across the infamous seashells. “Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” he posted. As Comey’s motion to dismiss for lack of a true threat notes, “86 47” is a mass-produced anti-Trump slogan, emblazoned on hundreds of thousands of items available at Amazon. Nevertheless, the rightwing flop brigade lurched into action, howling like Obama had just christened the George Soros Abortion and Factchecking Complex on the White House lawn.
That afternoon, Comey’s wife Patrice received a series of abusive texts from an acquaintance denominated as “Person-1,” who screamed at her that the post was “a call for violence no matter how you spin it” and “expressed disagreement with the role of Mr. Comey’s son-in-law prosecuting crimes committed on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol.” Comey then deleted the Instagram post and expressed regret that people had misinterpreted the photo as something other than political commentary.
