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President Donald Trump, who survived two assassination attempts last year, said he knew “exactly” what former FBI director James Comey was doing when he shared his social media post.
Comey’s post is interpreted as a call by supporters and some government officials to assassinate Trump, including Trump’s National Intelligence Director Tarsi Gabbard.
Now researching on the US Secret Service, Comey shared on Instagram on May 15th the number “8647” made from seashells on the beach in the caption.
“Kids know what that means,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel’s. Special Report with Bret BaierIt aired on May 16th. “It meant assassination.”
In US Slang, according to Merriam-Webster, number 86 can be used as a verb to reject a 47th president, to remove someone from the bar for unruly behaviour or reject someone.
Comey, who was fired by Trump in 2017, later deleted the post and said he thought it was a political message.
Trump said he wouldn’t buy his explanation.
“He wasn’t very capable, but he was well equipped to know what that meant,” Trump said. “And he did that for a reason.”
Comey was leading the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election in which Trump fired him in May 2017.
“And when you add his history to it,” Trump said. “He’s a dirty cop.”
When asked if Comey should be in prison, Trump intentionally said he had Attorney General Pam Bondy handle the decision.
“We will actively investigate anything that can be considered a potential threat to parents,” said Anthony Grielmi, a spokesman for the US Secret Service, in an X post.
Last July, Trump was the target of a 20-year-old gunman at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A bullet hit the top of his right ear and injured him. A few days later, Trump wore a large white bandage on his ears while attending the Republican National Convention to accept his party’s presidential nomination.
Secret Service agents helped stop their second assassination attempt by finding a man carrying a planted rifle near Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is a White House correspondent for USA Today. x You can follow her at @swapnavenugopal
