{"id":28923,"date":"2026-07-29T15:11:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=28923"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:15:48","slug":"comey-asks-judge-to-86-seashells-case-amidst-explosive-allegations-implicating-secret-service-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/29\/comey-asks-judge-to-86-seashells-case-amidst-explosive-allegations-implicating-secret-service-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Comey asks judge to \u201886\u2019 seashells case amidst explosive allegations implicating Secret Service, Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/comey-asks-dismiss-seashell-case-trump-surveillance\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former FBI Director James Comey asked a federal judge Tuesday to dismiss the \u201csea shells\u201d case \u2014 alleging vindictive and selective prosecution \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>In the motion to dismiss his case, filed late Tuesday, Comey\u2019s lawyers argued that the seashells case \u201cis not based on a good-faith application of the law to the facts\u201d but instead \u201ceffectuates 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<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Comey\u2019s brief specifically claims that the Secret Service was sending frequent updates to Air Force One about its investigation of Comey at Trump\u2019s request from the outset.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/secret-service-comey\/\">Alternet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the filing, one anonymous official said in a message that law enforcement \u201cdid not believe that anyone\u2019s life was in immediate danger and legally it was a bad idea to ping the phone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This story isn&#8217;t going away quietly. Developing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story isn&#8217;t going away quietly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}