“He knew exactly what that meant.”
So declared President Trump during a recent interview with Bret Baier of Fox News in response to former FBI Director James Comey’s apparent call for a presidential assassination.
Indeed, Comey, who has generally made headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent years, reportedly thought it was a great idea to post a photograph of seashells strung together to form the following numbers: “8647.”
The number “86” is widely understood to remove or take out, while Trump is well known for being the 47thpresident.
Therefore, “8647” was widely perceived as a call for taking out Trump, especially as Comey did not include sufficient context for his supposedly innocuous picture of seashells.
Instead, Comey provided an explanation after the fact, or after the furor surrounding his message.”
“I posted 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,” Comey insisted.
Right.
Which is precisely why Trump himself does not believe Comey’s “explanation” for posting such a strange collection of numbers.
As detailed by the Daily Mail, Trump was deeply unimpressed by Comey’s unpersuasive explanation.
“A child knows what that meant,” Trump continued irritably, obviously not pleased by the continued efforts to take him down – literally.
“That meant assassination. And it says it loud and clear. Now, he wasn’t very competent, but he was competent enough to know what that meant … And he did it for a reason, and he was hit so hard because people like me, they like what’s happening with our country. Our country has become respected again and all this, and he’s calling for the assassination of the president,” Trump added.
Rather troubling timing, to put it mildly.
What was also troubling was the fact that Comey opted to post his little “8647” message right around the time that Trump was commencing a high-stakes tour in the Middle East.
Trump played coyer when asked about whether or not Comey would face charges, making it rather clear that such a consideration would fall within Attorney General Bondi’s domain.
“I don’t want to take a position on it, because that’s going to be up to Pam and all of the great people … But I will say this, I think it’s a terrible thing. And when you add his history to that. If he had a plain history – he doesn’t, he’s a dirty cop, he’s a dirty cop and if he had a clean history, I could understand if there was a leniency. But I’m going to let them make that decision,” Trump detailed.
What, if anything, will come of Comey’s post?
While that remains unclear for now, one can only hope that Comey will resist posting calls to “86” anyone else in the future.
Author: Jane Jones
