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Fool around and find out! Yesterday, NBC ran a very encouraging story headlined, “Former FBI Director James Comey under investigation for post seen as a potential threat to Trump's life.” It’s almost like he wants to be locked up.
This week, witless moron and former FBI Director James Comey decided it would be a good idea to post a thinly-veiled assassination threat against President Trump on his Instagram page. Predictably, even though the story was about the government’s response to Comey’s post, NBC didn’t include the actual post in its article. So if you haven’t seen it yet, here it is:
For Portland readers, “86” is a slang term for “get rid of,” and gang members often use it as shorthand for un-aliving someone. “47” refers to Donald Trump, the 47th President. Thus, Comey’s “cool” four-digit shell formation translated to, “kill Trump.” It wasn’t even original. The nut jobs on BlueSky have been using the murderous code since Trump’s first term (at that time, “86 / 45”).
Comey quickly pulled his post after the blowback started. It’s not clear whether that was before or after Secret Service agents paid him a visit. The passive-aggressive former FBI Director childishly claimed he never even knew that criminals used the digits as shorthand for murder. In other words, Comey is using the “I’m a moron” defense, which often, but for obvious reasons, misfires badly.
National Security Director Tulsi Gabbard isn’t buying it:
“We’re taking this very seriously,” Gabbard told Fox News anchor Jesse Waters. “There was a guy in Georgia last month issuing threats against my life, and now he’s in jail,” she added. “Do you believe Mr. Comey should be in jail?” Jesse asked.
“James Comey, in my view, should be held accountable and put behind bars for this,” she answered. That’s a fair reading of how we all feel.
If TDS sufferer James Comey’s goal was to get the Trump Administration’s attention, it worked. Nearly every security-adjacent official chimed in, including HHS Director Kristi Noem, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Secret Service Director Sean Curran.
Not coincidentally, Comey is also releasing a fiction novel this month, and odds are good his post was a lame attempt to make himself a cause celebré for deranged Democrats who, he hopes, will buy his book in lunatic solidarity.
The trouble with pranks like this is you never know where they will end. I won’t try to predict the legal outcome. Comey knows the law, and he’s a slimy snake, so presumably he covered his tracks well. But let’s begin with 18 U.S.C. § 871, which is broad enough to apply: “Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance… any communication containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President… shall be fined under this title or imprisoned.”
So, to convict Comey, the government must prove three things: a communication, a threat, and that he knew it was a threat. His Instagram post was clearly a communication. The message, “86/47,” will likely be found to be a threat. The challenge will be for the government to prove Comey knew it was a threat. That’ll be where the main fight unfolds.
In Watts v. United States (1969), the Supreme Court cleared an anti-war protester who said during a rally that, if he were drafted, “the first man I want to get in my sights is LBJ.” SCOTUS found that remark to be non-criminal “political hyperbole.”
Similarly, in United States v. Elonis (2015), the Supreme Court considered a teenage rap artist who’d been convicted of threatening various people, including an FBI agent, even though in many of his threatening posts he explicitly wrote, “this is not a threat.” The Court reversed his conviction, holding that prosecutors must prove that a defendant knows that other people would reasonably perceive their statement to be a threat.
Without more evidence about Comey’s knowledge, it remains a tossup. But the better news is that, since the government must prove Comey subjectively knew, the Secret Service now has ample grounds for searching his communications, homes, cars, and anywhere else there might be evidence the former FBI Director understood what the digits meant.
He’s about to enjoy a government-mandated proctological expedition. Bend over, Jim.
When they search Comey, if they find evidence of other crimes, well, that could be a whole different matter. For instance, even if the warrant is for digital messages about threatening the President, but they find classified documents or kiddie porn on Comey’s laptop, then it’s game on.
Comey, who unleashed many of his own criminal investigations on innocent citizens, on grounds much flimsier than his shelly little masterpiece, now has his own chance to find out exactly what it feels like.
I couldn’t say whether it’s likely he’ll be convicted. But one thing seems certain: Comey is about to endure the process, which will probably include his arrest, mugshot, and having to spend a not-insignificant portion of his book royalties on defense counsel. He just gave his enemies fully justified grounds to fire off the whole nine yards of investigative ammo.
Whitmer, Trump campaign clash after '8645' seen next to Michigan governor
Beth LeBlanc, The Detroit NewsPublished 9:46 a.m. ET Oct. 18, 2020
President Donald Trump's campaign and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer crossed verbal swords Sunday on national television and Twitter as Michigan's governor accused the president of inciting "domestic terrorism" and Trump's reelection campaign accused her of "encouraging assassination attempts" against the president.
In a Sunday morning interview on "Meet the Press," Whitmer criticized Trump's Saturday rally in Muskegon, where the crowd chanted "lock her up" against Whitmer roughly 10 days after state and federal officials said they foiled a kidnapping plot against the governor.
Whitmer implored the Republican president and other officials on Sunday to "bring the heat down" and accused Trump of "inspiring and incentivizing and inciting this kind of domestic terrorism."
Whitmer, a national campaign co-chair for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, made the comments with an "8645" emblem on a table beside her visible in the camera frame, an apparent anti-Trump message referring to "86ing," or getting rid of, the 45th president.
The presence of the decal prompted a backlash from Trump's campaign, which argued: "86 can be shorthand for killing someone."
“Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” Jim Comey, former FBI Director wrote on Instagram about the message “86 47” laid out in seashells on the sand that he came across, innocently. You’d have to ask yourself: what was “cool” about that, exactly? Especially if, as Mr. Comey claimed on X soon after, that he didn’t know what it meant. Are things that you don’t understand “cool”? Is it just “cool” to learn that you can spell stuff out with seashells? (Who knew?)
Maybe he was surprised to learn that people other than Jim Comey fans might see his cute coded clip and conclude that it wasn’t such an innocent little gag. “47,” of course, refers to Donald Trump in the cavalcade of US presidents. Among the not-strictly-fans was DNI Tulsi Gabbard, who went on TV hours later and said that Mr. Comey should go to prison for it — in so many words. You must suppose she meant after the appropriate procedures: an FBI deposition, a grand jury, an indictment, a trial. After all that, we’d probably get to the bottom of what JC meant by “cool.” ...
Apparently, mobsters like the phrase, too, for its pithiness: “Ay, somebody, go eighty-six that stronzo Rocco Vaselino, already! He ain’t paid da vig in a munt.” Soon, there will be no more of Rocco, you see. He will be food for the hellgrammites in the soil of the Jersey pine barrens. . . .
As DNI Gabbard pointed out — in case no one noticed — there have been two recent assassination attempts on Mr. Trump. It is a fact well-known to police psychologists that would-be assassins are curiously suggestible to prompts floating around in the zeitgeist. They tend to take them as commands. Go do this. And if anyone was a commanding figure, it would be Jim Comey, towering hero of the early anti-Trump resistance. Thus, it appears that Mr. Comey called for there to be no more of Mr. Trump. Not cool.
James Comey Taken In For Questioning By Secret Service For Perceived Death Threat Against POTUS, As Whistleblower Emerges To Reveal 2015 Comey Led 'Honeypot' To Compromise DJT With 2 Women Agents
Other Prominent Trump Hating Dems Also Post Comey's Assassination Code, And Do NOT Deny What It Means. Krassenstein Posted "It's Time!" Whitmer Tucked Code Into Background For Interview. ...
It’s not about the seashell death threat only; It’s about all the nested, treasonous plots Comey and his gang ran against Trump since at 2015. FISA-Gate, Russia-Gate, Crossfire Hurricane, Jan 6—all of it.
The term 86 was used by gangsters when they wanted someone disposed of, or murdered. Take them 8 miles out and bury them 6 feet under.
From a post on Truth:
The term 86 was used by gangsters when they wanted someone disposed of, or murdered. Take them 8 miles out and bury them 6 feet under.
I think that's probably the true explanation for the origin of 86.
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