May 17, 2025 3:12:17 pm
TOXIC PSEUDO MASCULINITY:
Former FBI Director James Comey was escorted from his home to be interviewed by the Secret Service about a social media post that Republicans insisted was a call for violence against President Donald Trump.
CNN showed video of Comey, 64, leaving his house in his suburban Virginia and heading to the Secret Service’s Washington field office just before 6pm.
The interview is part of an ongoing Trump administration investigation and is expected to help investigators assess the purpose and intent of the post, and whether Comey intended to communicate a threat to the president, which he flatly denied.
Any decision on whether charges should be filed would be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump said on Friday, though there’s a high bar in proving that comments or posts amount to direct threats of violence.
At issue is an Instagram post from Thursday in which Comey wrote ‘cool shell formation on my beach walk’ under a picture of seashells that appeared to form the shapes for ’86 47.’
The Merriam-Webster dictionary says 86 is slang meaning ‘to throw out,’ ‘to get rid of’ or ‘to refuse service to.’
It notes: ‘Among the most recent senses adopted is a logical extension of the previous ones, with the meaning of ‘to kill.’ We do not enter this sense, due to its relative recency and sparseness of use.’
Numerous Trump administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, asserted that Comey was advocating the assassination of Trump, the 47th president.
FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau was also supporting the investigation.
When asked about it on Friday during a Fox News interview, Trump said: ‘He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know what that meant, that meant assassination. And it says it loud and clear.’
He deflected a question on what he thought should happen, saying the decision would be up to Bondi.
The post was deleted on Thursday after it was made, with Comey subsequently writing: ‘I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence.’
“It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down,” the now-crime novelist wrote. By James Gordon for DM.
– Just for the RECORD, I’m not calling for the assassination of DT by posting the numbers 8647. So in case the Secret Service, FBI, Homeland Security or whomever else decides to investigate me, first read the post before wasting my time. The REGIME is trying their best to act tough. They’ve already arrested a judge, then a mayor and two congressmen, and now they’ve escorted the former FBI director to undergo questioning about a nothingburger.
I’ve never even heard of the number arrangement before seeing this over the top reaction from Trump in order to distract from his distasteful antics in the Middle East. They want people to be scared, they want people to feel frightened and intimidated. Don’t give them the satisfaction. They should be scared because everybody knows that the dice are loaded. It’s only a matter of time before the house of cards comes tumbling down. –
SNOWFLAKE HYPOCRISY: Prominent MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec and former congressman Matt Gaetz both used these numbers on X, exposing their blatant hypocrisy and ultimate snowflakeyness. Arrest them immediately.