Former FBI Director James Comey asked a federal judge Tuesday to dismiss the “sea shells” case — alleging vindictive and selective prosecution — and claimed that President Donald Trump compelled the U.S. Secret Service to surveil him after he posted on social media a photo of sea shells on the beach.
In the motion to dismiss his case, filed late Tuesday, Comey’s lawyers argued that the seashells case “is not based on a good-faith application of the law to the facts” but instead “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’s deep-seated animosity.”
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Comey’s brief specifically claims that the Secret Service was sending frequent updates to Air Force One about its investigation of Comey at Trump’s request from the outset.
According to the filing, one anonymous official said in a message that law enforcement “did not believe that anyone’s life was in immediate danger and legally it was a bad idea to ping the phone.”
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