2026年4月29日 / 美国东部时间下午1:49 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：雅各布·罗森
雅各布·罗森 司法部记者
杰克·罗森是负责报道美国司法部的记者。此前他曾担任竞选数字记者，报道特朗普总统2024年竞选活动，还曾担任《与玛格丽特·布伦南面对面》节目的助理制片人。
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雅各布·罗森
美国联邦调查局前局长詹姆斯·科米在遭起诉次日首次出庭受审，他于周三现身法庭。此前一天，他因涉嫌威胁总统特朗普遭到起诉。
科米周三未进行答辩。联邦治安法官威廉·E·菲茨帕特里克宣读了对科米的指控，并驳回了司法部提出的设置保释条件的请求。
“我认为本案没有必要设置保释条件，”菲茨帕特里克说道，并补充称科米“上次被起诉时”也没有必要设置保释条件。
科米当天身着蓝色西装和浅蓝色正装衬衫，由帕特里克·菲茨杰拉德和杰西卡·卡迈克尔代理。在宣读其权利时，他点头示意，离开法庭时还向家人微笑致意。
科米面临两项指控：一是明知故犯地蓄意威胁杀害总统并对其实施身体伤害；二是明知故犯地通过州际商业渠道传输威胁杀害总统的信息。
指控源于他去年曾在Instagram上短暂发布的一张图片，图中海贝壳在沙滩上摆出了“86 47”的数字造型。起诉书称，“了解相关背景的理性接收者”会将照片中的贝壳造型解读为“意图伤害特朗普总统的严肃表态”。
作为特朗普的长期批评者，科米很快删除了该帖子，因为愤怒的特朗普支持者将这些数字解读为对第47任总统特朗普的威胁。他曾在Instagram帖子中表示，他认为贝壳造型是在传递一个“政治信息”。
“我没意识到有些人会将这些数字与暴力联系起来，”科米写道。“我从未想过这一点，但我反对任何形式的暴力，所以我删除了该帖子。”
在遭起诉后发布在Substack平台的一段视频中，科米表示：“我仍然是无辜的，我仍然无所畏惧，我仍然相信独立的联邦司法系统。那么，我们继续吧。”
科米的律师帕特里克·菲茨杰拉德表示，他的法律团队打算尽快以选择性起诉和报复性起诉为由提出驳回动议，并请求法官下令由政府保存相关记录，理由是司法部近期发表意见称《总统记录法》不适用于特朗普政府。
科米曾于2025年9月被联邦大陪审团起诉，罪名是涉嫌向国会撒谎并阻挠国会程序。在该案中，他的法律团队提出了选择性起诉和报复性起诉的抗辩，但由于负责该案的美国检察官任命程序违法，案件被驳回，法官无需就此问题作出裁决。司法部目前正对该案的驳回决定提起上诉。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻法律专栏撰稿人杰西卡·莱文斯顿告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，此次起诉的不同寻常之处在于，指控源于一个象征性信息：“它们是以贝壳为依据的。”她指出，司法部在本案起诉中将面临很高的举证门槛，并表示最大的争议点在于本案是否存在第一修正案辩护空间。
“如果无法证明该言论、象征性言论或表达满足故意要求，那么就存在强有力的第一修正案辩护。”司法部必须证明科米意图威胁总统的生命，或者他在社交媒体帖子中传递了带有这种威胁意图的信息。
2023年，美国最高法院曾裁定，若要将真实威胁视为不受第一修正案保护的言论，政府必须证明说话者“有意识地无视其言论可能对他人造成伤害的重大风险”。科米在发布Instagram帖子时曾表示，他不明白这些数字可能与暴力有关，随后便删除了该帖子。
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Comey appears in court after his indictment for allegedly threatening Trump
April 29, 2026 / 1:49 PM EDT / CBS News
By Jacob Rosen
Jacob Rosen Justice Department Reporter
Jake Rosen is a reporter covering the Department of Justice. He was previously a campaign digital reporter covering President Trump’s 2024 campaign and also served as an associate producer for “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
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Former FBI Director James Comey made his first court appearance Wednesday after his indictment a day earlier for allegedly making threats against President Trump.
He did not enter a plea on Wednesday. Federal Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick read the charges against Comey and denied the Justice Department’s attempts to set conditions of release.
“I don’t think conditions on release are necessary in this case,” Fitzpatrick said, adding that “they weren’t necessary last time” Comey was indicted.
Comey, in a blue suit and light blue dress shirt, was represented by Patrick Fitzgerald and Jessica Carmichael. He nodded as he was read his rights and smiled back at his family as he left the courtroom.
Comey has been charged with two counts: knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of — and to inflict bodily harm on — the president, and second, knowingly and willfully transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to kill the president.
The charges stem from an image he briefly shared to Instagram last year showing seashells arranged in the sand to form the numbers “86 47.” The indictment states that a “reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances” would interpret the depiction of the shells in the photo “as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to President Trump.”
Comey, a frequent Trump critic, soon removed the post after outraged Trump supporters interpreted the numbers as a threat against Mr. Trump, the 47th president. He said in an Instagram post that he believed the shell formation was communicating a “political message.”
“I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence,” Comey wrote. “It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”
In a video posted on Substack after the indictment, Comey said, “”I’m still innocent, I’m still not afraid, and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary. So, let’s go.”
Comey’s attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, said his legal team intend to file motions to dismiss on the grounds of selective and vindictive prosecutions imminently and asked a judge to order the preservation of records from the government, given the Justice Department’s recent opinion that the Presidential Records Act does not apply to the Trump administration.
Comey was previously indicted by a federal grand jury in September 2025 for allegedly lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. In that case, his legal team presented arguments on selective and vindictive prosecutions, but the judge never had to rule on that issue because the case was dismissed on grounds that the U.S. attorney who had brought the case was illegally appointed. The original case is being appealed by the Justice Department.
CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson told CBS News that the charges in the second indictment are unusual in that they stem from a symbolic message: “They’re based on seashells.” She indicated the Justice Department would face a high bar in prosecuting the case, noting that the biggest issue is whether there’s a First Amendment defense in the case.
“There’s a robust First Amendment defense if you can’t show that either the speech, or the symbolic speech or the expression satisfies that intent requirement.” The Justice Department will have to prove that Comey intended to threaten the president’s life or that he intended to transmit a message with that threat in his social media post.
In 2023, the Supreme Court said that for a true threat to be considered speech that is unprotected under the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker “consciously disregards a significant risk that their words might harm another.” Comey said at the time of his Instagram post that he didn’t understand the numbers could be associated with violence and then removed the post.
Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.
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