Former FBI Director James Comey’s legal team is trying to persuade a North Carolina judge to dismiss the Justice Department’s case against him. “No reasonable person could believe that Comey intended to threaten the president via seashells,” the person said. Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey are asking a federal judge to dismiss his criminal indictment, arguing that "dictionaries, context, precedent, and common sense" prove an Instagram photo of seashells was not a threat against President Trump. Comey asks judge to drop case over seashells Instagram post pic.twitter.com/Jb7SmPgkV3 — B.C. Trump once said of the seashells post that “a child knows what that meant” and that “it meant assassination.”