Secret Service Agents asks Comey about his Trump Social Media Post

On Friday, Secret Service Agents asked the former FBI director James Comey about his “8647” social post that administrative officers described a death threat to President Trump and Comey as a political explanation.

“Today, federal agents of @Secretservice asked the former FBI director Comey in relation to a social media post in which the murder of President Trump was requested,” said DHS secretary Kristi Noem on X Friday. “I will continue to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of @potus Trump. This is an ongoing examination.”

A Comey lawyer rejected a statement.

Comey, a long -time Trump critic, deleted the photo – on which mussels were arranged in the form of “8647”. He said it was a political message, not a violent.

“I didn't notice that some people associate these numbers by force,” wrote Comey on Instagram. “It never occurred to me, but I reject violence of any kind, so I put down the post.”

In an interview with Fox News on Friday, Trump said that he believes that Comey “knew exactly what he meant”.

“A child knows what that means … that meant 'assassination',” said Trump. “And it says it loudly and clear. He was not very competent, but he was competent enough to know what that meant.”

Tulsi Gabard, director of the National Secret Service, said on Thursday that Comey should be detained.

“I am very concerned about the life of the president. We have already seen attempts to murder,” said Gabard in Fox News. “I am very concerned about his life and James Comey, in my opinion, should be held accountable and laid behind bars.”

Trump survived two attempts at attack during the 2024 campaign. In July he was wounded in his ear at a campaign assembly in Butler, PA after a shooter shot from a nearby roof before he was killed by snipers of the secret service.

Two months later, a man aimed a rifle on Trump's security detail while he was in Florida Golzen. The man fled, was arrested and accused of murdering a presidential candidate.

Importance of “sixth -gig”

The term “sixth-gig” is an expression in restaurants that means “to serve or reject or bend a customer”, according to Merriam-Webster “to remove something from a menu” or “to reject, to dismantle or (to get rid of something”. It dates from the 1930s.

Republican politicians have used “86” in the social media posts. Last year the former Republican Congressman of Florida, Matt Gaetz, published 86'd: McCarthy McDaniel McConnell.

The tweet referred to the former spokesman for the house, Kevin McCarthy, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, and the former chairman of the Senator majority Mitch McConnell, who had left all leadership in the Republican Party.

On Friday, Gaetz The Independent said that his use of “86” was different from that of Comey. “In the past, I talked about things that had already happened,” said Gaetz. “Comey has published a call for future action. These are different.”

In 2022, the conservative activist Jack Posobiec published an obvious reference to Joe Biden, the 46th President. According to The Independent, Posobiec did not answer a request for comments.

The 8647 number sequence has been used for months and seen on anti-trump t-shirts, buttons and other goods that are sold to Amazon and Etsy-from which some are still available for purchase. Amazon and Etsy also sell articles with the conditions “8646” that refer to bidges.

During Trump's first term, the numerical sequence was also used. In 2020, Gretchen Whitmer, the democratic governor of Michigan, was criticized after a PIN with the numbers “8645” appeared on a table during a television interview.

At that time Trump was the 45th president. Whitmer denied that the term “murdered” meant.

After employees in a Restaurant Virginia asked the press spokesman for the White House, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in 2018, the employees wrote “86 – Sarah Huckabee Sanders”, Politifact reported in their overnight stay.

A former public prosecutor who examined several threats against government officials said that Comey had not committed a crime. He said that the Federal Criminal Police Act, which prohibits murder threats to the president, requires that a person “knowingly and willingly represents an explicit threat to” to kidnap the life of or to harm “.

The former prosecutor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity and cited the fear of retaliation, said that Comey's Post was not close to the discussion of this legal threshold.

“He did not commit a crime,” said the former prosecutor. “He gave his enemies an opening.”