Ex-FBI Director James Comey asks judge to cancel NC hearing in Trump threat case
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The hearing expected to bring former FBI director James Comey to a federal courtroom in Greenville, North Carolina, on Monday may be called off after his attorneys asked a judge to cancel it.
On Thursday, Comey’s attorneys filed a motion asking a North Carolina federal judge to cancel the 11 a.m. hearing where Comey was scheduled to make an initial appearance on two charges of threatening President Donald Trump with a photo of seashells taken on a North Carolina beach.
The photos arranged in a pattern of “86 47” has been interpreted as a threat by the Trump administration. Comey, who says he found the shells arranged that way and shared a photo of them on Instagram, said he saw the display as political and took the post down when he learned it could have another meaning.
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