Comey Tried To ’86’ Trump’s First Term With Russia Collusion Hoax

The only thing as disingenuous as disgraced former FBI Director James Comey’s attempt to whitewash his “86 47” Instagram post is the collective of corporate media outlets attempting to do the same. But the Comey over from the weaselly Deep Stater and the accomplice news outlets lapping up his lies again should come as no surprise to anyone who has paid any attention over the better part of the past decade. 

In short, the only people stupid enough to believe Jim Comey’s latest array of excuses are the same people who bought his attempt to politically “86” President Donald Trump during his first term in office. 

“This is very on par for James Comey. You might remember that he was one of the main orchestrators of the Russia collusion hoax,” The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway said on The Ingraham Angle. 

‘Some Folks Associate it with Violence’

Hemingway joined the Fox News host in the wake of Comey’s social media post on Thursday featuring a photograph of seashells arranged to read “86 47.”  

“Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” Comey’s caption stated. After taking plenty of heat, the Trump-hating swamp creature took down the threatening message and claimed — or feigned — ignorance that “86” is a slang expression meaning “to kill, to murder; to execute judicially,” according to Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang. In this case, Comey’s “cool formation” appears to be a call to 86 the 47th President of the United States. 

“I didn’t realize some folks associate it with violence,” he posted on his Instagram account after removing — or 86ing — the post. 

He didn’t realize? Really? Comey, who spent the opening years of his law enforcement career investigating and prosecuting organized crime, wants us to believe he was unfamiliar with the violent meaning behind the number 86. He served as lead federal prosecutor in the 1993 mafia racketeering and murder trial, going up against the Gambino crime family. As Newsweek notes, the mafia’s use of the term referred to taking someone “eight miles out of town” and burying them “six feet under.” 

Comey acknowledged he assumed the arrangement of the shells was a “political message.” But President Trump and his supporters can take comfort in Comey’s assertion that he opposes “violence of any kind.” 

Gasoline on the Fire

The fired FBI director is correct. He posted a political message — a dangerous one from an old Deep Stater nearly a year after the man who fired him came within a fragment of an inch of being assassinated. With 55 percent of the Trump Derangement Syndrome-sickened left believing killing the 47th president is justifiable, Comey’s “cool” sea shell message is gasoline on the fire. 

Having lived through what he and his family have, Donald Trump Jr. understandably sounded the alarms. 

“Just James Comey causally calling for my dad to be murdered.  This is who the Dem-Media worships. Demented!!!!” Don Jr. wrote Thursday on X in response to Comey’s post. 

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is calling on the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI to launch a criminal investigation into Comey and his media post that “has raised credible and disturbing concerns about incitement to violence against the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.” 

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said her agency is doing just that. The Secret Service reportedly has interviewed Comey, and FBI Director Kash Patel offered “all necessary support.” 

The Washington Post insists questioning their guy is yet another Trump administration assault on free speech. 

“Since January, federal officials have repeatedly sought to punish opponents for activity traditionally protected by the First Amendment,” asserts the same newspaper that stood by silently watching democracy die in darkness as tech giants, at the direction of the Biden administration, suppressed conservative speech. 

‘Comey Set a Dangerous Example’

The Post, CNN, the New York Times and so many other corporate media outlets devoured the phony Russia Collusion narrative that falsely accused Trump and his 2016 campaign of being Kremlin stooges. They spent Trump’s first term reporting on leaked information originating from the bogus Steele dossier that was bought and paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of Trump’s 2016 opponent, the insufferable former Sen. and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.  

And the Pravda Press was getting a steady diet of propaganda from leaker-in-chief Comey, the conductor of a political probe designed to take out a president. 

“He knew CNN wanted to publish a story about the Russia collusion, and so he orchestrated a briefing of incoming President Trump and then-president Obama, then somehow that magically leaked to CNN,” Hemingway told Ingraham. “He had those FBI agents do a deceptive interview with Mike Flynn where they acted like they were briefing him, and instead they were conducting a hostile interview.”

She said Comey oversaw the leaks from the FBI that planted the hoax. And when Trump finally sacked the duplicitous FBI chief, Comey leaked several memos, including confidential information, “in order to gin up a special counsel in order to subvert that first Trump administration,” Hemingway said. 

More than two years after Comey was sent packing, an Office of the Inspector General report found the Deep State weasel violated Department of Justice and FBI policies by holding onto four of his memos and then asking a law professor buddy to publicly push out one of the documents after Trump fired him. 

“The responsibility to protect sensitive law enforcement information falls in large part to the employees of the FBI who have access to it through their daily duties,” Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote in the report.

“Former Director Comey failed to live up to this responsibility,” the report stated. “By not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of his FBI employment, and by using it to create public pressure for official action, Comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees — and the many thousands more former FBI employees — who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.”

Trump’s DOJ opted not to prosecute the corrupt director. They should have. Comey escaped justice then in the same way he let Clinton off the hook in the summer of 2016 after the agency found the Democrat presidential candidate “grossly negligent” and then “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information. That softening of language and Comey’s absurd insistence that no prosecutor would have taken Clinton’s case to court closed the door on accountability. 

The DOJ of Trump 2.0 shouldn’t let this Deep Stater weasel away again. Unsuccessful in “86ing” Trump’s first term in office, Comey’s beyond “careless” social media post in these politically volatile times is inexcusable from a former FBI director who definitely should know better. 

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.