Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) thinks the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey are so laughable they could inspire a new name for prosecutions that are just as flimsy.
During a Sunday stop by NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he told journalist Kristen Welker, “I think in the future in the DOJ, if anyone ever suggests bringing a case this weak, there will be a new name for it: ‘seashells cases.’”
Late last month, a grand jury indicted Comey for allegedly threatening President Donald Trump’s life through a 2025 Instagram post picturing seashells on the shoreline arranged to read “86 47.”
Following the indictment, Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, raged at “dirty cop” Comey in a Truth Social post where he claimed 86 was “a mob term” for murder, something Comey knew “full well.”
Members of the public, bipartisan legal experts and even some Republicans have questioned how the president and his allies came to such a violent conclusion about the term, which is typically used as shorthand for giving someone the boot from a restaurant, bar or job.
