The NY Times spotlights President Donald Trump’s focus on the case of prosecuting ex-FBI boss James Comey in another of his ‘revenge’ efforts…
Comey ‘s lawyers are asking that this case be throw out for obvious reasons including those shown below….
The information below also points to a President using, at his disposal, the law enforcement powers of the Federal Government for his OWN personal grudges ….
Secret Service agents who questioned the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey were told to send details of the interview to Air Force One so President Trump could review them, according to a new court filing by Mr. Comey’s lawyers seeking to dismiss the criminal case against him.
The filing is based on internal government documents turned over to Mr. Comey as he fights a criminal charge that a photo he posted online of seashells on a beach that said “86 47” amounted to a threat against the president.
The disclosure is the most glaring example to date of the degree to which Mr. Trump now directs federal law enforcement actions, and suggests his intense personal involvement in investigating his longtime nemesis.
Mr. Comey posted the photo to his Instagram account in May 2025, and the president’s supporters quickly denounced the post as a threat. Mr. Comey denied that, saying he had understood the term “86” to be restaurant jargon for expelling an unruly patron. The number 47 refers to the 47th president, Mr. Trump.
Hours after the social media post, the Secret Service spoke to Mr. Comey on the phone, trailed him as he drove from a vacation home in North Carolina to Virginia, and asked his cellphone service provider to give the authorities real-time tracking information about his location, according to the filing.
One Secret Service message cited in the filing from that day said that “the # 3 guy at DOJ ‘wanted to ping the cellphone’” of Mr. Comey using an exigent circumstances request, referring to a legal process typically deployed in fast-moving emergency investigations where court orders may take too long because someone could be in danger.
The Secret Service messages do not appear to name the senior Justice Department official, but the No. 3 position at the Justice Department is the associate attorney general, a job that was not filled by a Senate-confirmed official at that time. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.
During that time, the Secret Service agents following Mr. Comey’s car lost him briefly because he had turned off the highway to visit the gravesite of one of his children, the filing said.
The next day, Mr. Comey agreed to be interviewed face to face. One government document said that “POTUS was requesting a copy of the interview notes to use in his 6 p.m. press conference.” At the time, Mr. Trump was traveling on Air Force One, and a Secret Service agent described the interview as “a hot topic on the plane,” saying that Mr. Trump was “very interested.”….
Update….
It gets worse….
FBI agents interviewed convicted mobster Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano and relied on statements from an actress from the TV show “Scandal” as part of what lawyers for former FBI director James B. Comey described late Tuesday as a highly unusual effort to prosecute him over a social media post….
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The filings by Comey’s defense include FBI search warrant applications for Comey’s digital accounts, memos detailing several interviews conducted by agents and other government documents provided to Comey’s defense team in preparation for trial. They provide the fullest account to date of the Justice Department’s stop-and-start efforts over nearly a year to secure an indictment in the face of sustained pressure from the White House to charge Comey with a crime.
“Ample objective evidence — much of which comes directly from government officials’ own public statements and admissions — establishes that the President’s animus toward Mr. Comey led to this vindictive and selective prosecution,” Comey’s lawyers wrote…..
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