Posted on 05/02/2026 6:44:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
James Comey, former FBI director, former deputy attorney general, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is a friend of presidents and kings, an admired figure who presents himself as a voice of reason and morality, and a pillar of the Washington establishment — or, as the Mafia would put it, a made guy. Surely he would never do something so lawless and undemocratic as threaten the president of the United States, would he?
That’s what Comey contends in response to charges that he was issuing a veiled threat to the president when he posted on his Instagram account a photo of seashells arranged to say “86 47.” “86” is a well-known expression for getting rid of someone, and whether or not Comey meant that Trump should be gotten rid of by assassination, it was an extraordinarily irresponsible statement for him to make at a time when leftist calls for violence against Trump and his supporters are distressingly common.
Those calls have now resulted in three assassination attempts against Trump, and no one knows how many more there will be, but in this climate, only a fool would say that the president will finish out his term without any more attempts to kill him. Comey took the photo down on the same day that he posted it, and explained: “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.”
However, the idea that the former director of the FBI actually “didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence” strains credulity well beyond the breaking point. That is clear from a potboiler crime novel, FDR Drive, that Comey wrote, or that was more likely ghostwritten for him.
In an unwittingly revealing May 2025 interview with NPR to plug the book, Comey explained that his novel was “about a right-wing podcaster who is trying to motivate his followers to engage in acts of violence against the targets of his vitriol. And it’s about my protagonist, Nora Carleton, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, trying to figure out, how do we stop the violence? And is there a way to hold this podcaster criminally accountable for what he clearly knows he’s doing? And that’s the trick because the line between speech and crime is – it should be clear, but it’s fuzzy.”
All right. So here’s the intrepid FBI director explaining that he wrote a book about a “right-wing podcaster” (after all, who else do leftists think is evil these days?) who “is trying to motivate his followers to engage in acts of violence against the targets of his vitriol,” but he is apparently doing so in a veiled manner, because Comey adds that “he clearly knows” what he’s doing. Comey’s novel, he says, is all about “the line between speech and crime.”
And then Comey would have us believe that he posted a photo on his Instagram account that many of his followers would understand as a call to engage in an act of violence against the target of his vitriol, but that poor, naïve Comey himself didn’t know what he was doing? Sell me a bridge while you’re at it, why doncha?
This becomes all the clearer when the NPR interviewer asks Comey about the “line between free speech and violent incitement and domestic terrorism, ideologically motivated violence,” and Comey says he has had to “grapple with that very issue throughout my career.” Yet he expects us to believe that he didn’t pause to ponder even for a moment whether posting “86 47” might constitute violent incitement and domestic terrorism.
That’s what he’s insisting: “I took a picture and posted it ’cause I thought it was a clever political thing. Never occurred to me that someone would try to say it was associated with violence. I actually still don’t see that. But I took it down because I don’t want – I mean, this is my Instagram account, for God’s sakes. I don’t want anything on there to be associated with violence, even if I don’t get it.” And he didn’t think anyone else would get it, either: “Yeah, I'm not worried, ‘cause there’s no world in which this is an actual threat.”
Of course. So here is a guy who published a novel about veiled calls to violence, claiming that he didn’t know what he posted was a veiled call to violence, despite the fact that it's common parlance. Sure, Comey. I’ll bet you would still insist you were acting in good faith regarding the Russia hoax, too.
“I’m just telling you what the law is, whether either of us agree with it or not. This is a guaranteed fail prosecution. To be honest, the part of this that’s most disturbing to me is that I am sure the Acting Attorney General absolutely knows that, but the DOJ feels compelled to push a doomed prosecution to avoid angering Trump so he doesn’t throw a temper tantrum and start firing everybody again.”
I agree 99%. No doubt, Comey’s seashell message was to “get rid of Trump.” That’s a given. The DOJ, however, must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt for a jury to convict. As long as there are objectively plausible, non-violent means of getting rid of Trump (i.e., impeachment/conviction, 25th Amendment), DOJ cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Comey was calling for the assassination of Trump unless — and this is why I only agree with you 99% — the DOJ has collateral evidence such as emails, text messages, or recordings in which Comey states that’s that he wants Trump dead.
Impeachment or 25th Amendment were never gonna happen with R’s controlling House, Senate, and Presidency. The judiciary (including his daughter) has been doing their level-best but the cases eventually end up at SCOTUS where, so far, the Constitution & laws have mostly won.
John Brennan even moreso.
But Comey as well.
“Even if you didn’t mean it, a threat that seems credible could land you in federal prison.”
That’s Federal “Pound Me In The A__” Prison.
“It is time for Obama to die. I am dedicating my life to the death of Obama and every employee of the federal government.”
There is absolutely zero ambiguity or "double meaning" in that statement. That's why that guy got arrested.
I think it’s pretty well accepted by now that Comey should be occupying a jail cell.
“It is time for Obama to die. I am dedicating my life to the death of Obama and every employee of the federal government.”
And the chances of that happening are?
There are lots of federal employees.
I knew we could count on you to Pearl Clutch for the left.
So you think:
1) filing criminal charges against Comey;
2) having them quickly dismissed by a judge without trial, and then;
3) having Comey plastered all over the media as a victim of political prosecutions that were so bogus the courts just threw them out
...is a scenario that helps Trump or the GOP? Seriously??
It's that kind of brilliant thinking that is likely to cost us the House, at a minimum, in November.
I completely agree with you. Brennan does this kind of sanctimonious thing at an even higher level that Comey does.
Of course, he should be tried and convicted the same as Comey, but his penalty should be for the crimes of Treason or Sedition.
Or both. Maximum penalty available.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/421745-comey-rips-trump-gop-over-lying
Text of FBI Director Comey’s statement on Clinton emails https://www.marketwatch.com/story/text-of-fbi-director-comeys-statement-on-clinton-emails-2016-07-05
Andrew McCarthy: ‘FBI Rewrote the Statute’ to Give Hillary Clinton a Pass
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/07/06/andrew-mccarthy-fbi-rewrote-the-statute-to-give-hillary-clinton-a-pass/
FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437479/fbi-rewrites-federal-law-let-hillary-hook
TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2009-title18/pdf/USCODE-2009-title18-partI-chap37-sec793.pdf
Negligent Homicide Law and Legal Definition
https://definitions.uslegal.com/n/negligent-homicide/
Mission Statement FBI
https://www.fbi.gov/about/mission
Mission Oregon State Police
http://www.oregon.gov/osp/Pages/about_us.aspx
Mission Lane County Sheriff
https://www.lanecounty.org/government/county_departments/sheriff_s_office
Mission City of Eugene Police
https://www.eugene-or.gov/658/Mission-Vision-Values
I assumed you were kidding, but one never knows. According to “Search Assist”:
‘”Roussel-Uclaf 486,” which is derived from the name of the pharmaceutical company that developed the drug, Roussel-Uclaf, along with a serial number indicating its order of development.’
I like your explanation better. Just too good to be true.
Why is a policeman called a “cop”? Constable On Patrol? Unfortunately, no. The police used to have copper buttons on their uniforms. So, they were coppers, or cops for short.
bump
Agreed. I hope they are both tried and convicted of either seditious conspiracy or treason.
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