Comey says '8647' Post, who led Trump Firestorm were completely innocent James Comey

James Comey went for a walk on the beach with his wife when they appeared in the sand after a message: 8647.

According to the former FBI director, his wife first asked whether the cryptic mussel formation was an address. They confused the mussels and tried to decrypt the meaning. After Comey's account, his wife remembered her days as a waiter in a restaurant when 86 was the term that removed an element from the menu. Comey considered that children, when he was younger, would say 86 to “break off a place”.

“I said:” This is really smart “, said Comey in an interview with MSNBC on Monday, in which he described the events of the past week, which prompted him to publish a photo of the mussels on Instagram, which led to a fire storm of the allegations of Trump allied that he claimed after violence against the president.

“I posted it on my Instagram account and I didn't think about it until I heard through her that people said it was a call to an assassination attempt on what was crazy,” he said. In the middle of the turmoil, Comey extinguished the post and gave a statement in which he said that she was not intended as a call to violence.

“Even if I think it's crazy,” said Comey on MSNBC. “I don't want to be associated with any kind.”

To “86” is common to stop or remove something, while “47” can be regarded as a reference to Trump, the 47th president.

Comey had gone to the beach for a moment of the break before he published his impending legal strand by Legal Thriller FDR: published a crime novel. Instead, he received a call from the Secret Service, which had opened an examination of the post.

Comey, who was released by Trump in his first term, voluntarily appeared in the Washington field for an interview after the president insisted that there was no innocent reading of the message. “He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant,” said Trump. “If you are the FBI director and do not know what that means, the assassination meant. And it says it loudly and clearly.”

In an interview on Monday, Comey did not appear looted by the investigation. “It is not my first rodeo,” he said, noting that his stormy relationship with Trump said that Comey worsened after rejecting Trump's early attempts to secure a promise of loyalty from the then FBI director. The agency is now headed by Kash Patel, whose lasting loyalty has raised urgent questions about the independence of the FBI.

But Comey warned that the episode pointed out a more worrying trend of this administration: “The use of power to aim to target individuals and to erod the rule of law.”

His advice to others who can be at the end of Trump's retaliation?

“The rule of law is still our saving grace,” said Comey. “We have a judiciary in this country that will support the truth. Make it comfort. Take a careful steps, but do not freak out. These people are not good enough so that they are freaky. Protect yourself, let yourself be on the impact that the threat has on you and know that you will be okay.”