The decision to charge former FBI Director James Comey over a social media post showing seashells arranged as “86 47” was made without influence from President Donald Trump or Justice Department leaders, federal prosecutors said in a court filing on Tuesday.
In more than 100 pages of court filings added to the docket late Tuesday, the department said Ellis Boyle, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, independently decided to seek the indictment. The filing responded to Comey’s effort to dismiss the case as a vindictive prosecution driven by Trump’s longstanding hostility toward him.
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