DOJ CONTINUES INDICTION FOR COMEY – The U.S. Justice Department brought criminal charges against James Comey over ’86 47′ post
The U.S. Justice Department brought criminal charges against James Comey, accusing the former FBI director of threatening President Donald Trump by posting a photo of shells arranged to show the numbers “86 47.”
The charges, brought in the federal court in the Eastern District of North Carolina, accuse Comey of threatening the life of the U.S. president and transmitting a threat across state lines.
The case relates to an Instagram post Comey published last year May while vacationing in North Carolina showing the arrangement of shells. In U.S. parlance, the number 86 can be used as a verb meaning to throw somebody out of a bar, while 47 could be seen as code for Trump, the 47th president..
President Trump said the interpretation of Comey’s post was a threat to violently remove Trump from power.
U.S. officials investigated Comey in the days following the post, but he was not charged. Comey deleted the message after it attracted controversy.
