Kash Patel Drops Bombshell – Secret Service IMMEDIATELY Sent for James Comey
FBI Director Kash Patel announced Thursday that federal authorities are actively reviewing a deleted social media post made by former FBI Director James Comey, which many Americans interpreted as a potential threat against President Donald Trump.
“We are aware of the recent social media post by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump. We are in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran. Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support,” Patel stated in a post on social media.
The post in question featured a photograph of seashells arranged to form the numbers “86 47.” This cryptic message raised alarm, as “86” is widely understood in American slang to mean “eliminate,” while “47” is a reference to President Trump, the 47th President of the United States. Comey added a caption to the image that read: “cool shell formation on my beachwalk.”
Following backlash, Comey later posted a follow-up message claiming ignorance of the phrase’s violent connotation, stating he “didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence.”
President Trump, during an interview with Fox News, firmly rejected Comey’s explanation.
President Trump responds to James Comey's alleged threat on his life by noting, correctly, that the former FBI director's claim "Oh I didn't know what 86 47 meant" is BS. pic.twitter.com/aDJ29KbzkP
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“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,” President Trump said. “He wasn’t very competent, but he was competent enough to know what that meant.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who oversees the United States Secret Service, issued a statement on X confirming that federal agencies are treating the matter seriously. “DHS and Secret Service is investigating this threat and will respond appropriately,” she wrote.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard weighed in with a sharp rebuke, calling the post a blatant threat and saying it demands legal accountability.
“Are you buying that the former FBI Director didn’t know what ‘86 Trump’ meant?” asked Jesse Watters on his Fox News program.
“Absolutely not, Jesse,” Gabbard responded. “That is a ridiculous and insane statement to make, certainly within this context, but especially coming from a guy who’s the former Director of the FBI, a guy who spent most of his career prosecuting mobsters and gangsters, people who know and execute other humans and use this exact lingo of 86.”
Gabbard emphasized that Comey’s own follow-up message revealed his awareness that the post carried political implications. “Well, the only reason he knew that, Jesse, was because a little over a month ago, a bunch of anti-Trump, anti-Elon Musk protesters were proliferating the use of this 86-47 slogan, which was a veiled call to action to murder the sitting President of the United States,” she said.
She continued, “So for Comey to think that we, the American people, are so stupid as to think that he, as a former FBI Director, former prosecutor, and someone who clearly pays attention to what’s going on, would believe his lie that he didn’t know what this actually was calling for — the dangerousness of this, Jesse, cannot be underestimated.”
Gabbard concluded by highlighting the seriousness of the situation and the left’s apparent double standards. “When we have two assassination attempts on the president’s life, when we have people who look to guys like Comey — who’ve been celebrated by MSNBC and the Democrat elite and CNN as the beacon of integrity, the law and order guy, the guy who would tell the truth no matter what the consequences — this is the guy who’s issuing a hit on President Trump, the president that the American people voted for.”