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The Justice Department issued an arrest warrant for former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday, claiming in a new indictment that the staunch Donald Trump critic made a threat against the president — albeit one written in sand using seashells.
The matter stems from a photo he posted to social media of seashells arranged on a North Carolina beach to read, “86 47,” the first numbers indicating a slang term for getting rid of someone or something and the second presumed to be a reference to Trump, who became the 47th president of the United States in his second term.
Justice Department prosecutors wrote in an indictment that the message was “a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the president of the United States.”
Comey was interviewed by the Secret Service in May after Trump officials claimed he was, through the posting, pushing for the assassination of Trump. Comey deleted the post shortly after it was made, writing: “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence” and “I oppose violence of any kind, so I took the post down.”
Having emerged as a critic of the president’s in the time since leaving the FBI, Comey first earned Trump’s enmity in 2016 and 2017 when his agency began an investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russian officials.
Trump has harbored anger against Comey for years, and since taking office in 2025, has directed the Department of Justice to begin a campaign of criminal prosecutions against Comey and others who have challenged him in similar ways, like New York Attorney General Letitia James.
“This won’t be the end of it. But nothing has changed. I’m still innocent; I’m still not afraid. I still believe in an independent justice system,” Comey said in a video post to his Substack on Tuesday after the charges were announced.
Attorney General Pam Bondi headed up that effort at the agency before her firing earlier this month. Tuesday’s news is apparent confirmation that her replacement, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, will continue in that vein…
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