Looking Into Alleged Threat
On Instagram, Mr. Comey, who oversaw the FBI from 2013 until being fired by Mr. Trump in 2017, posted a picture of seashells that seemed to form the numbers 86 47.
The US Secret Service has conducted an interview with a former director of the FBI regarding a social media post that Republicans claim called for violence against President Donald Trump.
James Comey, who oversaw the FBI from 2013 until being fired by President Trump in 2017, posted a picture of seashells that seemed to form the letters “86 47” during his first term in office.
The Instagram picture was captioned, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”
The post has been read as a threat by some, who claim that 86 47 intends to assassinate Mr. Trump and other violently remove him from office.
What is meant by ’86 47′?
In the United States, 86 can be used as a verb. “To throw somebody out of a bar for being drunk or disorderly” is the common meaning.
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term has recently come to mean “to kill.” The dictionary stated that this meaning of 86 has not been adopted “due to its relative recency and sparseness of use.”