Prosecution of Comey ‘makes no sense:’ Tillis

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Sunday expressed reservations about the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey.  

“If this whole case is based on a picture in the sand of a North Carolina beach, it again makes no sense to me,” Tillis told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Comey, who served as FBI director from 2013 until President Trump fired him in 2017, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina on Tuesday for allegedly threatening Trump. 

In the indictment, the lone piece of evidence cited is a photo that Comey posted to Instagram last May of seashells forming the numbers 86-47. At the time, the former FBI director wrote, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”

The president argued earlier this week that the post was intended to threaten him, the 47th president. 

“If anybody knows anything about crime, they know ‘86.’ You know what ‘86’ [is]? It’s a mob term for ‘kill........

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