National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, FBI Director Kash Patel, co-President Laura Loomer, and Trump’s failson Don Jr, are up in arms over a photo James Comey posted on Instagram of some seashells on a beach arranged in the numbers “86 47,” writing, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”
To 86 someone from a bar (ask Pete Kegsbreath about that), you throw them out. In restaurant lingo, it means to cancel a menu item. At a restaurant, it means the establishment is out of cheddar broccoli soup. It does not mean they want to assassinate the soup. In Trump World, it means Comey is calling for Donald’s assassination — even though Trump himself posted a photo during the campaign depicting Joe Biden tied up and gagged in the back of a truck.
Because of MAGA’s pearl-clutching, Comey deleted the photo and issued a statement on Instagram saying, “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 associated those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me, but I oppose violence of any kind, so I took the post down.”
Trump weighed in on Fox News, saying, “He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know … that meant ‘assassination.’ ”
