Comey and Kimmel: Seashells and a Joke

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Comey and Kimmel: Seashells and a Joke

April 29, 2026,

1:54 p.m. ET

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To the Editor:

Re “

Comey Targeted for Second Time With Indictment

” (front page, April 29):

The Trump Justice Department’s securing of an indictment of James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, over an Instagram post of seashells on a seashore is as ludicrous as it is bone-chillingly dangerous.

Anyone who’s worked in an American restaurant or bar, as I did when I was younger, knows that when a chef or headwaiter uses the term 86’d, it means that the item is no longer available.

In bars, patrons who’ve had too much to drink and behave obnoxiously are often asked to leave and sometimes barred from returning; those customers are referred to as 86’d.

That members of the Trump administration honestly believe that Mr. Comey had nefarious intent when he posted the image is laughable at best. Americans can only hope that a judge or court quickly steps in to halt this semantical, nonsensical prosecution by the Justice Department’s latest head puppet of vengeance, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Cody Lyon

Brooklyn

To the Editor:

One would think that displaying seashells by the seashore is a form of free speech.

Pat Speth Sherman

Roseburg, Ore.

To the Editor:

I continue to be surprised by President Trump’s anger at James Comey. The announcement that Mr. Comey made 11 days before the 2016 election regarding the discovery of more Hillary Clinton emails presumably did not gain her votes. It may have even cost her the election.

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