FBI director Kash Patel ripped his predecessor, James Comey, on Wednesday evening after Comey questioned Patel’s fitness to hold the post.
Patel appeared on Fox News&#8217; “Special Report” hosted by Bret Baier to respond to comments Comey had made earlier during an appearance on CNN. Patel said that Comey’s flippant use of social media had inspired a wave of potential threats against President Donald Trump’s life.
Earlier this month, Comey had posted, then deleted a picture off his Instagram page of seashells on a beach arranged to say, “86 47.” The former FBI director was immediately blasted for posting the message, widely understood to be a threat to Trump. “86” is commonly understood to mean “get rid of” and “47” is a reference to Trump as the 47th President of the United States.
“Do you know how many copycats we’ve had to investigate as a result of that beachside venture from the former director?” Patel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disgraced-former-fbi-chief-deletes-86-47-post-that-got-kash-patels-attention?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Disgraced+Former+FBI+Chief+Deletes+%E2%80%9886+47%E2%80%B2+Post+That+Got+Kash+Patel%E2%80%99s+Attention" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Baier.
“Do you know how many agents I’ve had to take offline from chasing down child sex predators, fentanyl traffickers, terrorists because everywhere across this country, people are popping up on social media and think that a threat to the life of the President of the United States is a joke and they can do it because he did it?” Patel continued.
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“That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m having to deal with every single day, and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m having to pull my agents and analysts off because he thought it was funny to go out there and make a political statement,” he added.
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🚨 JUST IN: Kash Patel EVISCERATES James Comey — blames him for COPYCAT threats against Trump&#8217;s life
Comey should be LOCKED UP for incitement (at a minimum)
KASH: &#8220;Do you know how many agents I have had to take off line chasing down child predators, fentanyl traffickers, &amp;… <a href="https://t.co/RVDUQTH8w6">pic.twitter.com/RVDUQTH8w6</a>
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Comey had previously attacked Patel on CNN, questioning his fitness to head the intelligence agency. Comey himself was fired as FBI director during Trump’s first term.
“Obviously, you start with the fact that the guy has literally nothing in his entire adult life that prepares him for this role. And so, that&#8217;s deeply concerning to start with,” Comey <a href="https://x.com/TheOfficerTatum/status/1927797687849525626" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“That is a daunting task for him. I hope he lets the career people do their jobs, but they&#8217;ve already forced out a bunch of good career people and sent a chill through the organization,” he added.
Comey later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/damage-control-jim-comey-insists-he-found-trump-threat-on-beach-didnt-know-what-86-meant?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Damage+Control%3A+Jim+Comey+Insists+He+Found+Trump+Threat+On+Beach%2C+Didn%E2%80%99t+Know+What+%E2%80%9986%E2%80%99+Meant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> he did not know what “86” meant before he posted the message to his social media. He said that he thought it meant to “get out of a place.”
“My wife and I were walking on the beach, and saw those numbers in shells on the beach,” he said, “Somebody else did it!”

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Kash Patel Says Comey Instagram Post Inspired Wave Of Potential Threats Against Trump

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Former FBI Director James Comey called the Republican Party “white supremacist adjacent” on MSNBC.
Comey was interviewed over the weekend by MSNBC host and former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
“One of the things that is happening now is that the Trump administration, of course, is testing the system in ways it hasn’t been tested before,” Psaki claimed. “In the law enforcement sense, do you think there are laws that should be put in place that would help better manage this, that aren’t in place now? I mean, are we equipped? Is the law enforcement system and the legal system equipped to deal with what we are seeing now?”
“Probably there could be changes at the margins, but in the main we have the tools; there are cultural impediments to doing this work,” Comey answered. “Let’s say you work in the FBI; you know that one of the two political parties is — let me put it nicely— white supremacist adjacent, at a minimum. And so why would you wanna throw your career on that side of the line and be summoned to Capitol Hill to be asked why you’re pursuing these innocent groups. And so we have a cultural impediment to working it effectively that should get more attention than it does.”
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In April 2019, Comey <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/opinion/james-comey-trump-racism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> President Trump of “stirring” racism for his own political benefit, writing in the New York Times, “America has long had a radioactive racist soup in the center of our national life. Donald Trump thinks he is stirring it for political benefit. He’s actually doing something more dangerous.” He addressed Trump directly, saying, “You must stop trying to unleash and exploit the radioactive energy of racism.”
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James Comey says the Republican Party are White supremacists.
He also called to ass*ssinate Trump.
He’s demonizing an entire group and calling for violence.
He knows exactly what he’s doing.<a href="https://t.co/Fv5HUosbpn">pic.twitter.com/Fv5HUosbpn</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1927003388534816881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Comey also attacked the GOP by accusing the party of ignoring principles, although he followed by suggesting — without any irony at all and ignoring the actions of the Biden presidency, that a Democratic president might implement investigations of the GOP. He stated, “I know Republicans these days aren’t big in thinking about principle or precedent; they’re gonna be deeply sorry that disappears because someday there’ll be a Democratic president and there will be investigations of Republican office holders. If I’m them (sic), I sure would want these career people in place making sure that it’s done in the right way.”

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James Comey Calls GOP ‘White Supremacist Adjacent’

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Former FBI Director James Comey embarked on a media tour to save face after an Instagram post landed him in hot water, and he doubled down on claims that he&#8217;d had nothing to do with creating the shell formation he&#8217;d photographed during a casual &#8220;beach walk&#8221; — and that he&#8217;d had no idea the term &#8220;86&#8221; might imply a threat.
Comey first found himself at the center of heated conversation when he shared a photo from the beach, showing seashells that &#8220;someone&#8221; had arranged to form the numbers &#8220;86&#8221; and &#8220;47.&#8221; Critics immediately noted that &#8220;86&#8221; was generally understood to mean &#8220;get rid of&#8221; and &#8220;47&#8221; was a clear reference to President Donald Trump, the 47th president — and they pointed out the fact that Comey should have known better than to post something that so many would interpret as a threat.
The former FBI chief, who was fired by Trump in 2017, claimed at the time that he did not realize the term implied violence and deleted the post — but not before it caught the attention of current FBI Director Kash Patel, and it earned Comey a visit from the United States Secret Service.
Comey doubled down during an appearance on CBS&#8217; &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; with Stephen Colbert, saying again that he and his wife had simply stumbled on the arrangement of seashells — and that he&#8217;d interpreted the message as entirely political.
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🚨JAMES COMEY: “My wife and I were walking on the beach, and saw those numbers in shells on the beach&#8230;somebody else did it!” <a href="https://t.co/LZ6GOX8inv">pic.twitter.com/LZ6GOX8inv</a>
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&#8220;My wife and I were walking on the beach, and saw those numbers in shells on the beach,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;Somebody else did it!&#8221;
&#8220;We were on a walk, preparing for this week,&#8221; Comey continued. &#8220;And she said, &#8216;Why&#8217;d somebody put their address in the sand?&#8217; We looked at it, trying to figure out what it was. She&#8217;d long been a server in restaurants. She said, &#8216;You know what I think it is? A reference to restaurants. When you&#8217;d 86 something at a restaurant.&#8217; I said, &#8216;No, I remember as a kid, you&#8217;d say &#8217;86&#8217; to get out of a place. This place stinks, let&#8217;s 86 it.&#8217; So I said, &#8216;I think it&#8217;s a clever political message.'&#8221;
Comey then tossed his wife under the bus, saying that she was responsible for encouraging him to take the photo and post it to his Instagram page. &#8220;She said, &#8216;You should take a picture.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Sure.&#8217; She said, &#8216;You should Instagram that.&#8217; And then, boom.&#8221;

Damage Control: Jim Comey Insists He Found Trump Threat On Beach, Didn’t Know What ’86’ Meant

Damage Control: Jim Comey Insists He Found Trump Threat On Beach, Didn't Know What '86' Meant

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FBI Director Kash Patel teased a coming &#8220;wave of transparency&#8221; with regard to the Russiagate controversy that dogged President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House.
In a Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373020839112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Patel spoke to &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; host Maria Bartiromo about reviving trust in the bureau years after the scandal that they have long examined and criticized. Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-declassification-of-materials-related-to-the-federal-bureau-of-investigations-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an order in March for the declassification of materials related to the Russia investigation, codenamed &#8220;Crossfire Hurricane,&#8221; led by the FBI. Just The News chief investigative correspondent Jerry Dunleavy has already <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/declassified-crossfire-hurricane-docs-shine-light-steele-clinton-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">begun to report</a> some of their contents.
&#8220;I can speak to the folks that were in our seats, our predecessors, and they intentionally failed the American public by putting on the biggest D.C. deception game we have ever seen. They said the FBI was the most storied institution for law enforcement, and it was. And it will be again very soon,&#8221; Patel said.
Patel then made reference to several major Russiagate figures who previously served in the bureau: former Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former agent Peter Strzok, and former General Counsel James Baker. The interview, which aired Sunday, was recorded before federal authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/director-of-national-intel-says-comey-should-be-thrown-jail-86-trump-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened</a> an investigation into Comey over a social media post that some have taken to be a threat against Trump. Comey denies that he intended to call for violence.
&#8220;But when the likes of Comey and McCabe and Strzok and company came in here with the James Bakers of the world and intentionally lied to a federal court, only to rig a presidential election by lying to the American public and using taxpayer dollars, likely illegally, to fund this entire operation, and then withhold exculpatory information from a federal court that I used to appear before to manhunt terrorists, that&#8217;s what broke the FBI,&#8221; Patel said, referring to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-kill-fisa-as-lawmakers-consider-surveillance-reauthorization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FISA scandal</a> within Russiagate.
&#8220;And then, when they were caught, they lied about it,&#8221; Patel added. &#8220;And you and a few others like Dan and others were brave enough to cover it six, seven, eight years ago. And we&#8217;re still talking about it today, because, as Congress is working rigorously with us, the Crossfire Hurricane documents are coming fast and hard. And they&#8217;re being sent there unredacted, so we can have full accountability. And that&#8217;s how you restore &#8230; the trust that was lost to the American public when it comes to the FBI.&#8221;
Bartiromo pushed back.
&#8220;Yes, but, come on, Director. With all due respect, we have been talking about this for a long time, and I have been demanding accountability for many, many years,&#8221; she said. &#8220;One of the — you mentioned Comey, Strzok and the rest. They have got TV shows. They have got media platforms. They&#8217;re fine. There&#8217;s been no accountability.&#8221;
In response to what he conceded was &#8220;a fair criticism,&#8221; Patel emphasized the situation is now different.
&#8220;What I will tell people is, we weren&#8217;t here in the FBI in the last five years, when we had statute of limitations that were still in play, where we could have investigated criminal conduct. Most of these statute of limitations are five years old,&#8221; Patel said. &#8220;And we will investigate criminal conduct where we find a righteous case to do so and the law and the facts allow us to. But a lot of it, we&#8217;re precluded from. So we will take the criticism, and it&#8217;s rightfully so, that could we have done more in the past? Sure, people before us could have.&#8221;
He continued: &#8220;But what we can do now is continue to put out the documents and the information that these people withheld from the American public. And I&#8217;m just telling you, right now, as much as we know about Crossfire Hurricane, he and I just found out more last week. And we&#8217;re continuing to work with Congress to put those documents out. That&#8217;s how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was. Not only did they bastardize the FISA process and lie to the American public. They withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren&#8217;t supposed to look. And it&#8217;s a good thing we&#8217;re here now to clean it up, and you&#8217;re about to see a wave of transparency.&#8221;
Pressed to explain what he meant, Patel added with a smile, &#8220;Just give us about a week or two.&#8221;
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President Donald Trump said Friday that former FBI Director James Comey knew what he was doing when he posted a picture on social media that was interpreted by many as a threat against his life.
Trump was responding to a picture Comey posted on Instagram showing seashells on a beach arranged to form the numbers “86” and “47” with the caption &#8220;cool shell formation on my walk.&#8221; Trump officials have initiated investigations into Comey, as &#8220;86&#8221; can be used as slang for killing someone, and Trump is the 47th president. Comey deleted the post, saying that he did not mean to imply that Trump should be killed and that he assumed the shells were a &#8220;political message.&#8221;
&#8220;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,&#8221; Trump told Fox News in an interview. &#8220;And it says it loud and clear. Now he wasn’t very confident but he was confident enough to know what that meant.&#8221;
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🚨 <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> on former FBI Director James Comey&#8217;s &#8220;86 47&#8221; threat: &#8220;He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant &#8230; That meant &#8216;assassination.'&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/LfOHKfSOFa">pic.twitter.com/LfOHKfSOFa</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1923352571009278218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“He did it for a reason and he was hit so hard because people like me and they like what’s happening with our country,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;Our country’s become respected again and all this. And he’s calling for the assassination of the president.”
When Fox News host Bret Baier asked what he would like to see happen to Comey, Trump said he would leave it up to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“I think it&#8217;s a terrible thing,” Trump said. “If he had a clean 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’s a leniency, but I’m going to let them make that decision.”
Comey removed the post after backlash, saying he was unaware of the association of &#8220;86&#8221; with violence.
“I posted a picture earlier of some shells I saw on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,” Comey said. “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.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/director-of-national-intel-says-comey-should-be-thrown-jail-86-trump-post?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Tulsi+Gabbard+Says+Comey+Should+Be+Thrown+In+Jail+For+‘86′+Trump+Post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Thursday that she believed that Comey should be put in jail for the post, saying that he was essentially issuing a call for Trump to be assassinated.
Trump survived two assassination attempts while campaigning last year, including one where a bullet struck him in the ear during a rally in Pennsylvania.

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‘That Meant Assassination’: Trump Says Comey Knew ‘Exactly’ What ’86’ Post Implied

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On Thursday evening, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said former FBI Director James Comey should be thrown in jail for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disgraced-former-fbi-chief-deletes-86-47-post-that-got-kash-patels-attention" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a social media post</a> widely seen as threatening President Donald Trump.
Gabbard told Fox News host Jesse Watters that she &#8220;absolutely&#8221; did not buy Comey&#8217;s claim that he did not realize that a photo he posted to Instagram of shells on a beach showing &#8220;86&#8221; and &#8220;47&#8221; had anything to do with violence.
&#8220;I&#8217;m very concerned for [Trump&#8217;s] life. And James Comey, in my view, should be held accountable and put behind bars for this,&#8221; Gabbard said.
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James Comey just issued a call to action to murder the President of the United States.
As a former FBI Director and someone who spent most of his career prosecuting mobsters and gangsters, he knew exactly what he was doing and must be held accountable under the full force of the… <a href="https://t.co/zvbu5Vf0zg">pic.twitter.com/zvbu5Vf0zg</a>
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/DNIGabbard/status/1923198011108192532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Comey, who was cast out as FBI director by Trump in 2017 and has been critical of the president over the years, drew controversy earlier in the day when he posted the photo of shells arranged to show &#8220;86&#8221; and &#8220;47&#8221; on a beach.
&#8220;Cool shell formation on my beach walk,&#8221; Comey said.
Many people interpreted the photo as referencing assassination because &#8220;86&#8221; is used as slang for kill and Trump is the 47th president. Others have defended Comey, contending that &#8220;86&#8221; could simply mean removal.
Comey deleted the photo and, in a follow-up post, insisted he did not mean to suggest anything drastic.
&#8220;I posted a picture earlier of some shells I saw on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,&#8221; Comey said. &#8220;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.&#8221;
Still, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the bureau that Comey once led was looking into the matter.
“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 said on X.
People have been arrested and charged for allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-arrests-man-aliakbar-mohammed-amin-for-threats-against-trump-tulsi-gabbard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatening</a> Gabbard and Trump. Last year, during the 2024 campaign, Trump survived two assassination attempts.
Gabbard suggested that Comey should face consequences regardless of what he was thinking.
&#8220;Whatever James Comey&#8217;s intent, he and people like him need to be held to account according to the law, which is something that he claims to have given his life for and stands by the rule of law. Fantastic,&#8221; Gabbard said. &#8220;The rule of law says people like him, who issue direct threats against the president of the United States — essentially issuing a call to assassinate him — must be held accountable under the law.&#8221;

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard Says Comey Should Be Thrown In Jail For ‘86′ Trump Post

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Former FBI Director James Comey landed himself in hot water over what he claimed was a &#8220;shell formation&#8221; that he&#8217;d just happened to stumble upon while walking down the beach.
Comey&#8217;s photo, which he shared via Instagram, showed seashells arranged to form the numbers &#8220;86&#8221; and &#8220;47&#8221; — which was interpreted to mean &#8220;get rid of&#8221; President Donald Trump, the 47th president. It quickly caught the attention of a number of critics — including current FBI Director Kash Patel.
&#8220;Cool shell formation on my beach walk,&#8221; he captioned the since-deleted post.
&#8220;Just James Comey causally calling for my dad to be murdered. This is who the Dem-Media worships. Demented!!!!&#8221; Donald Trump Jr. posted via X.
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Just James Comey causally calling for my dad to be murdered.
This is who the Dem-Media worships. Demented!!!! <a href="https://t.co/4LUK6crHAT">pic.twitter.com/4LUK6crHAT</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1923118680658862260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;James Comey is posting cryptic messages online alluding to getting rid of President Trump. Would he like to explain what he means by this given the assassination attempts on President Trump? Take a look @FBIDirectorKash @FBI,&#8221; Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) added.
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James Comey is posting cryptic messages online alluding to getting rid of President Trump.
Would he like to explain what he means by this given the assassination attempts on President Trump?
Take a look, <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBIDirectorKash</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a>. <a href="https://t.co/NxnDM3xyti">pic.twitter.com/NxnDM3xyti</a>
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1923135946976849958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Don&#8217;t know how this can be interpreted as any other way but a threat against President Trump. James Comey should at the very least get a visit from the secret service. Also is everyone mentally ill?&#8221; Meghan McCain posted.
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Don&#8217;t know how this can be interpreted as any other way but a threat against President Trump.
James Comey should at the very least get a visit from the secret service.
Also is everyone mentally ill? <a href="https://t.co/Gn4Hbpn98f">https://t.co/Gn4Hbpn98f</a>
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1923122924531126387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is a direct THREAT against President Trump, who has already survived two assassination attempts. BEYOND despicable. James Comey MUST face consequences,&#8221; Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) added.
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This is a direct THREAT against President Trump, who has already survived two assassination attempts.
BEYOND despicable. James Comey MUST face consequences. <a href="https://t.co/CVkXt0T1CO">pic.twitter.com/CVkXt0T1CO</a>
— Coach Tommy Tuberville (@SenTuberville) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTuberville/status/1923147738142625970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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FBI Director Kash Patel responded via X, saying that the Bureau was aware of the post and was looking into the matter.
&#8220;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,&#8221; he said.
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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.
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1923151715777356062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Comey deleted the photo, following up with a post claiming that he&#8217;d just happened on the shells already arranged that way and had assumed the message was political rather than threatening.
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&#8220;I posted a picture earlier of some shells I saw on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,&#8221; Comey said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;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.&#8221;
Critics didn&#8217;t buy Comey&#8217;s explanation, however.
Greg Price commented, &#8220;Comey deleted his threat against President Trump and posted a statement claiming he just randomly stumbled across Trump derangement syndrome shell art and had no idea what it meant. Yes, I&#8217;m sure the guy who once ran the FBI was just clueless on this one.&#8221;
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Comey deleted his threat against President Trump and posted a statement claiming he just randomly stumbled across Trump derangement syndrome shell art and had no idea what it meant.
Yes, I&#8217;m sure the guy who once ran the FBI was just clueless on this one. <a href="https://t.co/CjtJIzIxDL">pic.twitter.com/CjtJIzIxDL</a>
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1923145561596641529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Disgraced Former FBI Chief Deletes ‘86 47′ Post That Got Kash Patel’s Attention

The FBI has reportedly opened an investigation into the origins of an alleged off-the-books operation launched a decade ago by former FBI Director James Comey to use undercover &#8220;honeypot&#8221; agents to infiltrate President Donald Trump&#8217;s first presidential campaign.
The alleged scheme was disclosed by an FBI whistleblower last year in a protected disclosure to the House Judiciary Committee, The Washington Times reported.
A &#8220;honeypot&#8221; refers to an undercover operative, usually an attractive woman, who uses sexual allure to entice targets and gain information from them.
The newspaper reported that the whistleblower alleged that two women who worked at the FBI went undercover and infiltrated Trump&#8217;s campaign.
The Washington Times <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/25/fbi-looking-james-comeys-books-honeypot-operation-targeting-2016/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=socialnetwork" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the FBI, now under the leadership of Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, &#8220;is looking for those once-undercover employees under Mr. Comey’s direction.&#8221;
The whistleblower alleged that Comey &#8220;personally knew&#8221; and &#8220;personally directed&#8221; the operation targeting the Trump campaign in an apparent attempt to find incriminating evidence of any kind of a crime that could be used to open an official investigation.
“The case had no predicated foundation, so Comey personally directed the investigation without creating an official case file in Sentinel or any other FBI system,” the whistleblower said in their disclosure. “The FBI has multiple methods of protecting highly sensitive investigations, so Comey did not have a legitimate reason not to officially create an official investigation file or have a file number.”
Radio host Hugh Hewitt responded to the report by posting on X: &#8220;If —a very big IF— this is true or even truth-adjacent, the scandal should shake everybody of standing in the mainstream in either party and any reporter w/a passing understanding of American history and the the rule of law.&#8221;
&#8220;We would all know what such an operation would mean: an actual example of an attempt to manipulate the political process via the secret abuse [of] federal authority,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;It would be worse than the lawfare we know about. By a lot. I hesitate, not to believe that an allegation was made, but that anything so wildly irresponsible would have been ok’d or even dreamt up by Director Comey.&#8221;

FBI Investigating James Comey’s Alleged Plan To Infiltrate Trump Campaign With ‘Honeypot’ Agents

More than seven years after losing to former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> is attacking fellow women for not supporting her failed campaign.
Clinton shared her latest gripe about the 2016 contest during an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/us/politics/hillary-clinton-abortion.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The New York Times as Trump runs another campaign for the White House this year.
Female voters were turned off because of how former FBI Director James Comey handled the investigation into her private email server, Clinton argued.
In the summer of 2016, Comey <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held a press conference in which he said</a> showed Clinton&#8217;s handling of classified information as secretary of state was &#8220;extremely careless.&#8221;
Comey did not recommend any charges, but Clinton has begrudged him for re-opening the probe right before the election before closing it again.
&#8220;Once he did that to me, the people, the voters who left me, were women,” Clinton said.
&#8220;They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me, because as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect,&#8221; she added.
Survey results <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that most women voted for Clinton, though a majority of white female voters backed Trump.
Clinton would have been the first woman to be president if she had won the 2016 election, a benchmark she claimed made it harder to win.
&#8220;They were willing to take a risk on Trump — who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection,&#8221; Clinton said.
She said this was &#8220;because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander in chief.&#8221;
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The interview also touched on abortion rights after the conservative-majority Supreme Court, molded under Trump, overturned Roe v. Wade.
Clinton bemoaned how people &#8220;kind of rolled their eyes at me&#8221; when she warned of a high court that could &#8220;demolish pillars of the progressive movement.&#8221;
Trump &#8220;threw his lot in with the right on abortion and was richly rewarded,&#8221; she said.
Clinton has a long history of blaming others for her 2016 defeat. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/13-things-clinton-blames-her-loss-shes-not-one-robert-kraychik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">list also includes</a> Russia, the news media, and white people.
In a podcast released last month, Clinton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-suggests-trump-wants-to-kill-his-opposition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> Trump wants to &#8220;kill his opposition&#8221; because of his purported affinity for &#8220;strongmen&#8221; leaders.

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypok2ieLEWk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speaking</a> on MSNBC, former FBI Director James Comey attacked former President Donald Trump, saying that the FBI and Justice Department would be in danger if Trump is elected.
Comey said that in the current Trump court case “the rule of law in this country, especially the court system, has passed its stress test, slow on the federal side, but this is a great example for our people.”
“You say it’s passed its stress test,” MSNBC host Alex Wagner stated. “Are you concerned that it may get a test unlike any other if Donald Trump is re-elected? I mean, when you think about a second Trump administration, what do you think the implications would be for the FBI?”
“Serious,” Comey answered. “For the Justice Department and the FBI, because Trump is coming for those institutions. He knows their power and I think he has regrets that he didn’t work hard enough to corrupt them last time. So he’s coming for them and that’s a danger for all Americans. He’s gonna put people in positions in those organizations. He didn’t have All-Stars last time; he’ll have the bottom of the barrel this time &#8230; people who will want to do his will and that should worry every American. This election matters because of a reason like that. “
Comey then turned to his election pitch: “People have to participate. You cannot sit on the sidelines. I don’t care how you feel about Joe Biden, you must vote for him because the consequences on the other side are too severe.”
In June 2018, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-watchdog-finds-comey-defied-authority-fbi-director/story?id=55670834" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Justice Department&#8217;s internal watchdog, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, concluded that when Comey served as FBI Director, he defied authority. A source informed ABC News that the draft report explicitly used the word &#8220;insubordinate.&#8221;
“The DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated this investigation, following a referral from the FBI, after the FBI determined that Comey may have shared memos that contained classified information with individuals outside the FBI,” the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) <a href="https://oig.justice.gov/press/2019/2019-08-29.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, adding:
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The OIG determined that Comey violated applicable policies and his FBI Employment Agreement by providing one of the unclassified memos that contained official FBI information, including sensitive investigative information, to his friend with instructions for the friend to share the contents of the memo with a reporter. Additionally, the OIG determined that Comey, while FBI Director, kept copies of four of the seven memos in a personal safe at his home and, after his removal as FBI Director, violated FBI policies and his FBI Employment Agreement by failing to notify the FBI that he had retained them, or to seek authorization to retain them.
Comey likewise violated applicable policies and his FBI Employment Agreement by providing copies, following his removal as FBI Director, of the four memos he had kept in his home to his three private attorneys without FBI authorization. Comey also failed to fulfill his obligation to immediately alert the FBI about his disclosures to his private attorneys once he became aware that the FBI, after Comey’s removal, had determined that one of the memos included several words, the names of foreign countries being discussed by the President, that were classified at the CONFIDENTIAL level.
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Comey Attacks Trump, Says He’s ‘Coming For’ FBI, DOJ If Elected

The classified documents charges against Donald Trump warrant two questions. The first: Should he be prosecuted? The second: Did he violate the actual law?
Let’s answer the second question first, based on the allegations presented by the indictment: If Jack Smith has the evidence to back those allegations (and he appears to), then yes, Trump violated the law.
The current version of the indictment, again, points out the tape of Trump informing people with no security clearance that he is showing them classified documents — and that he could have declassified them if he had chosen to do so, but that he didn’t. Trump claimed for a few weeks that the actual document he showed them wasn’t classified, but Jack Smith now alleges they were in fact classified documents. If proved by witness testimony, Trump’s defense on that score implodes.
The current version of the indictment also alleges that another Trump aide, a maintenance person at Mar-a-Lago, worked to destroy evidence of Trump’s people moving around classified documents. It also alleges Trump ordered the security tapes be wiped. This looks like it fulfills the legal elements of obstruction, which is Smith’s accusation.
Now to the first question: Should Trump be prosecuted? The answer is, no. He shouldn’t be prosecuted. Hillary Clinton was let off the hook in 2016 for precisely the same crimes of which Trump is now accused, down to the wiping of the servers and the exposing of classified information to those without classification status. 
Remember when Clinton directed her immigrant maid to print out classified information — and even enter a SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) to pick up classified faxes, including the <a href="https://nypost.com/2016/11/06/clinton-directed-her-maid-to-print-out-classified-materials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Presidential Daily Brief</a>? Remember when <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2016/09/03/fbi-report-platte-river-network-employee-bleachbit-delete-clinton-e-mails/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinton’s tech firm used BleachBit</a> to wipe away her private server’s classified emails — and then she joked about it, asking whether the server had been wiped “like with a cloth”?
Yet Clinton wasn’t prosecuted. Why? Because, as then-FBI Director James Comey said, despite the likelihood that foreign actors may have gained access to classified materials, Clinton didn’t have intent to distribute classified materials to foreign actors. Comey rewrote the law to avoid charging her because she was a presidential candidate. 
Now, the DOJ is hitting Trump with the book. 
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Everyone can see the legal double standard here. It’s perfectly obvious. And the double system of justice is far more of a threat to the country than Trump’s mishandling of classified information — which was not based on any nefarious security threat, but rather on Trump’s tendency to hoard materials he personally likes. 
If half the country rightly believes when Republicans commit crimes, they go to jail, but when Democrats commit crimes, they get sweetheart plea deals, the credibility of the entire justice system collapses.
New charges were dropped on Trump the day after Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal was blown up by a judge — humiliating the DOJ in the process. The irony is not lost on anyone.
So no, Trump shouldn’t be prosecuted. His handling of classified materials was likely illegal and certainly foolish. But that foolishness isn’t anywhere close to the level of national security threat of Hunter Biden picking up bags of cash in Ukraine while his daddy presides over Ukrainian foreign policy — and Hunter calls in daddy as a shadowy enforcer.
And everyone knows it.
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Members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a>&#8216;s Crossfire Hurricane team were not made aware of intelligence about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a>&#8216;s 2016 presidential campaign allegedly cooking up a plan to tie her rival <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> to Russia, according to Special Counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a>.
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) got Durham to establish how the intelligence was important enough to be discussed by CIA Director John Brennan during a White House briefing with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden (who is now president of the United States), Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director James Comey in the summer of 2016.
That information came from a Russian intelligence report and was soon placed into a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CIA</a> referral memo addressed to Comey and Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, who was involved in opening the Crossfire Hurricane inquiry. Yet, as told by Durham, Crossfire Hurricane agents who had recently started investigating alleged links between Trump&#8217;s campaign and Russia never got the memo.
Durham said &#8220;no&#8221; when asked whether Comey shared the information with FBI agents on the case. He was then prompted to recount how a supervisory special agent who had been involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation became distraught when Durham&#8217;s team shared the intelligence with him during an interview.
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&#8220;We interviewed the first supervisor on the Crossfire investigation, the operational person,&#8221; Durham said. &#8220;We showed him the intelligence information. He indicated he had never seen it before. He immediately became emotional, and got up and left the room with his lawyer, spent some time in the hallway, and came back.&#8221;
He added later: &#8220;The information was kept from him.&#8221;
Durham&#8217;s <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/durhamreport.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/durham-report-makes-sobering-findings-about-fbis-handling-of-trump-russia-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> last month, indicated the &#8220;Clinton Plan intelligence&#8221; could have been helpful to agents involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. &#8220;Most&#8221; of the individuals shown parts of the information by Durham&#8217;s team advised they had never seen it before, the special counsel&#8217;s report said.
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The report specifically points to British ex-spy Christopher Steele&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/us/trump-russia-investigation-dossier.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-discredited</a> anti-Trump dossier, stemming from research funded by Clinton&#8217;s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, that the FBI was <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-inspector-general-finds-17-significant-errors-or-omissions-in-carter-page-fisa-applications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> to have improperly used to secure FISA surveillance warrants against onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. It also references the unfounded secret <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/durham-finds-researcher-felt-threatened-by-schiff-staffer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backchannel</a> between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank that was <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoted</a> by Clinton and her team in the run-up to the 2016 election.
&#8220;Whether or not the Clinton Plan intelligence was based on reliable or unreliable information, or was ultimately true or false, it should have prompted FBI personnel to immediately undertake an analysis of the information and to act with far greater care and caution when receiving, analyzing, and relying upon materials of partisan origins, such as the Steele Reports and the Alfa Bank allegations,&#8221; Durham&#8217;s report said.
&#8220;The FBI also should have disseminated the Clinton Plan intelligence more widely among those responsible for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation so that they could effectively incorporate it into their analysis and decision-making, and their representations to the OI attorneys and, ultimately, the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court],&#8221; Durham&#8217;s report said.

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