Trump Administration Secures New Indictment Against Comey
The new case stems from a photograph of seashells on a North Carolina beach.
... The charge stems from an incident nearly a year ago,
when Mr. Comey, vacationing on the North Carolina coast, posted a
photograph on social media showing seashells arranged to say “86 47,”
combining the slang term “86” often used to mean dismiss or remove with
an apparent reference to Mr. Trump, the country’s 47th president. ...
When Mr. Comey learned of the uproar, he deleted the post, saying that
he did not know that it had a violent connotation and that he opposed
violence of any kind. The Secret Service interviewed him by phone that
evening, and Mr. Comey said he had no intent to cause the president
harm. The next day, he sat for an in-person interview. The Justice
Department eventually dropped the matter, but it was revived in recent
months. ...