{"id":2435825,"date":"2025-05-16T21:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-comey-interviewed-by-secret-service-over-8647-post\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:52:00","slug":"james-comey-interviewed-by-secret-service-over-8647-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-comey-interviewed-by-secret-service-over-8647-post\/","title":{"rendered":"James Comey interviewed by Secret Service over \u20188647\u2019 post"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjames-comey-interviewed-by-secret-service-over-8647-post%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2435825&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former FBI Director James Comey was questioned by the Secret Service regarding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dominion-rep-who-scanned-ballots-in-georgia-county-where-thousands-of-trump-votes-were-uncounted-also-worked-for-kamala-harris\/\" title=\"Dominion Rep Who Scanned Ballots in Georgia County Where Thousands of ... Votes Were Uncounted Also Worked for Kamala Harris\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-... Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">social media<\/a> post<\/a> he made on Instagram, which raised concerns about a potential threat to President Donald Trump. The post featured the numbers &#8220;8647&#8221; spelled out in sand, which some interpreted as a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >coded message suggesting violence<\/a> against Trump. The term &#8220;86&#8221; is frequently enough understood to mean &#8220;get rid of,&#8221; while &#8220;47&#8221; refers to Trump being the 47th president. Comey later deleted the post,claiming he did not intend for it to be seen as a call to violence,stating,&#8221;I oppose violence of any kind.&#8221; However,Trump asserted that Comey knew the implication of his post.The Secret Service responded rigorously to any potential threats, acknowledging the seriousness of Comey&#8217;s comments. additionally, the incident has prompted an inquiry by the Department of Homeland Security.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">James Comey interviewed by Secret Service over &lsquo;8647&rsquo; post<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2123488\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/secret-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Secret Service <\/a>agents reportedly questioned former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FBI <\/a>Director James Comey at a Washington field office on Friday about a social media post he made that sparked concerns that it called for violence against President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Comey posted a picture on Instagram of the numbers &ldquo;8647&rdquo; spelled out in the sand with seashells. The term &ldquo;86&rdquo; is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as &ldquo;get rid of&rdquo; or &ldquo;throw out,&rdquo; and &ldquo;47&rdquo; refers to Trump being the 47th president of the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3414352\/government-accountability-office-doge-target-government-watchdog\/\">Government Accountability Office rejects DOGE effort to target government watchdog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3414158\/james-comey-86-meaning\/\">What does &#8217;86&#8217; mean?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3413746\/trump-comey-8647-social-media-post-assassination-threat\/\">Trump fires off on Comey&#8217;s &#8216;8647&#8217; message: &#8216;That meant assassination&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Comey later deleted the picture, which he thought was a &ldquo;political message,&rdquo; saying he didn&rsquo;t realize it could be interpreted as a call to violence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence,&rdquo; Comey wrote on Instagram. &ldquo;It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump shared on Fox News that Comey knew the message meant assassination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He knew exactly what that meant,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;A child knows what that meant. If you&rsquo;re the FBI director and you don&rsquo;t know what that meant. That meant assassination, and it says it loud and clear.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Comey&rsquo;s post received staunch opposition from Republicans on social media, especially because Trump has already faced two assassination attempts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Secret Service vigorously investigates anything that can be taken as a potential threat against our protectees,&rdquo; a Secret Service spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3414158\/james-comey-86-meaning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> <\/a>earlier on Friday. &ldquo;We are aware of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald ...\">social media posts<\/a> by the former FBI director and we take rhetoric like this very seriously.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to the Secret Service for a comment regarding Comey&rsquo;s meeting with the Secret Service. Comey appeared voluntarily, a source<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/16\/politics\/comey-interviewed-secret-service?Date=20250516&amp;Profile=CNN+Breaking+News&amp;utm_content=1747430037&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> told CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3414158\/james-comey-86-meaning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">WHAT DOES &lsquo;86&rsquo; MEAN?&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comey&rsquo;s social media post has also spurred a Department of Homeland Security investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey just called for the assassination of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/POTUS\">@POTUS<\/a>&nbsp;Trump,&rdquo; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sec_noem\/status\/1923141313005785365?s=46&amp;t=aOOy8YEKiQSfdQpJkUhBhQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote on X<\/a>&nbsp;in response to Comey&rsquo;s post. &ldquo;DHS and Secret Service is investigating this threat and will respond appropriately.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2123488\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2123488\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Comey questioned by Secret Service over &#8216;8647&#8217; post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2542,"featured_media":2435826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/James-Comey--scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55424,6234,51149,34163,39031],"class_list":["post-2435825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-8647-post","tag-interview","tag-james-comey","tag-secret-service","tag-security-threats"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/James-Comey--scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435829,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435825\/revisions\/2435829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}