'No serious dispute' that Comey's seashell post could be read as a Trump threat, prosecutors say
Prosecutors also called into question Comey's account that he had found the seashells in the numerical arrangement of "86 47" while walking on a beach in North Carolina and suggested that his May 2025 post on Instagram was an effort to generate attention for a forthcoming novel.
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