James Comey set to appear in court on Trump seashells threat indictment

FILE PHOTO: Former FBI Director James Comey testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Senate Hart building on Capitol Hill, on Thursday, June 8, 2017. Cheriss May | Nurphoto | Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to appear in Alexandria, Virginia, federal court on Wednesday to face a two-count indictment accusing him of threatening to kill President Donald Trump last May by posting on Instagram a photo of seashells arranged to form the message "86 47" on a North Carolina beach. "I'm still innocent, I'm still not afraid, and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary, so let's go," Comey said Tuesday, after the indictment — the second against him in less than a year — was unsealed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, where the case will be prosecuted. Comey will appear in Alexandria for the first hearing in the case because that is the closest federal court to his home. Trump and the Department of Justice have claimed that the numbers "86 47" represented a threat to assassinate Trump. "86" is slang for ejecting or removing a person, according to dictionaries, and Trump is the 47th president of the United States. …