The Trump Administration Is Wasting Our Tax Dollars on Totally Pointless Lawsuits

3 min readThe Department of Justice Follies have reached a kind of hilarious crescendo this week at various courtrooms throughout the country. In one case, James Comey’s defense team filed a document in defense against charges that he threatened the president by photographing seashells that wrote out “86 47.” The defense document cited an interesting sidelight in Kash Patel’s FBI’s effort to pin this ludicrous charge on Comey.In May 2026, an FBI agent and the First Assistant interviewed Salvatore Gravano, a former member of the Gambino crime family and key government cooperator in the Gambino trial, who was involved in the murder of at least nineteen people, among other crimes. Mr. Gravano did not recall ever discussing the term “86” with Mr. Comey, or otherwise ever hearing the term uttered in connection with trial. While Mr. Gravano claimed that all law enforcement agents would be familiar with the term’s alternative organized crime meaning referring to murder, he also claimed that a “gangster would never use that term” because they knew that law enforcement knew what the term meant. As with Person-1, Mr. Gravano did not indicate that he understood the seashells post to be a threat by Mr. Comey to carry out violence personally. These people devoted time and taxpayer money interviewing Sammy the Bull about seashells. Classic.Meanwhile, the equally idiotic prosecution of Davey Hearn for scooping pieces of the cheap-ass lining out of the Reflecting Pool is falling apart. From The Guardian:In its court filing on Monday, Hearn’s legal team questioned whether prosecutors properly presented the grand jury with adequate evidence to support the amount of damage alleged in the indictment at the center of the case. A National Park Service (NPS) official testified that the pool already was damaged before Hearn allegedly touched it, couldn’t quantify any damage attributable to the accused and said the same repairs would have been required regardless of his conduct, defense attorneys contended.“The witness’s testimony established that the pool had substantial preexisting damage requiring repair before any alleged conduct by Mr Hearn,” his lawyers wrote. “According to the witness, the pool was leaking more than one million gallons of water per week; its expansion joints had exceeded their service life; and the liner already contained a rip.”Monkeying with grand juries is becoming a trademark move with this DOJ, which is still reeling from the revelations of its shenanigans in the “Broadview Six” and several other high-profile “no bills” issued by federal grand juries. From Bloomberg Law:Federal grand jurors in Chicago rejected indictments against at least three people last year, all of whom were accused of assaulting federal agents during the “Midway Blitz” anti-immigration crackdown.The Chicago notification rule took effect in May. Later that month, the courthouse was rocked by revelations of serious grand jury misconduct in a case against another group of anti-ICE protesters known as the “Broadview Six,” leading the judge in that case to say her trust in prosecutors had been broken. Chicago US Attorney Andrew Boutros’ office declined to comment on whether the presumption of regularity has eroded but said it’s “grateful” for the court’s efforts to improve its local rules.These people are the most incompetent scoundrels in office since the Nixon people hired burglars who forgot to take the tape off the door.