Europe EditionTrump: Comey post ‘meant assassination’
- James Comey, former FBI Director, posted a social media image on May 2025 showing shells spelling '86 47', interpreted as a call to violence against President Trump.
- The post sparked controversy leading Republican Representative Andy Ogles to request a joint federal investigation into potential violations of laws against threats to the president.
- Comey removed the post and stated he did not intend it as a call for violence, while his defenders emphasized this and denied violent intent.
- President Trump condemned Comey as a 'dirty cop' during a Fox News interview, saying 'a child knows what that meant' and that the post implied assassination threats.
- The Department of Homeland Security and Secret Service announced investigations into the post, and national figures like Tulsi Gabbard called for Comey's arrest, underscoring the serious response.
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What does ’86′ mean? Term in Comey’s social media post has changed over time. - The Boston Globe
In promising to investigate former FBI Director James Comey, Trump administration officials pointed to his apparent reference to a slang term on Instagram, describing it as a call for the president's assassination.
Trump Uncorks String of Deranged 2020 Lies After Comey Post
An enraged President Donald Trump attacked former FBI Director James Comey in a Saturday morning Truth Social post in which he spewed lies about his 2020 election loss and claimed “Dirty Cop” Comey was somehow behind it all. “Remember, it all began with DIRTY COP James Comey, Obama, a hapless and cognitively impaired Sleepy Joe Biden, and my now very famous ACCUSATION that, ‘THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!’” the president wrote, already fuming at 8:3…
Trump says ex-FBI Director James Comey's '86 47' post called for...
President Trump slammed his former FBI director, James Comey, for posting a coded photo that he said called for his assassination. "He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant ... That meant 'assassination,'" Trump said in an interview with Bret Baier on Friday. Comey had posted a picture Thursday of seashells formed in the shape of "86 47" — a message that could be interpreted as "eliminating" him, since he's the 47th preside…
Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher Lashes Out at Comey Trump ‘Threat’ Coverage: ‘F**king STUPID!’
Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher slammed coverage of former FBI Director James Comey’s controversial “86 47” social media post as “f**king stupid” and far overblown. Christopher joined Jim Acosta on The Jim Acosta Show this week to discuss a Mediaite column he penned, in which he argued “everyone is being really stupid” over Comey’s post, including Comey himself and President Donald Trump. Comey posted — and then deleted — a photo of himself on a be…
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