December 6, 2025

86 47

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Last Friday, Democratic press secretary turned MSNBC host, Jen Psaki had on former FBI director James Comey to talk about his new book, a fictional story that centered on a right-wing influencer who directed his followers to commit violence. Psaki used biased questions and responses to validate Comey’s outrageous claims that right-wing podcasters were like Islam extremists and were “white supremacist adjacent,” not just in his book, but in real life.

Psaki asks the question:

  I think you’ve told me, you enjoy writing fiction. It — it’s fiction, but it centers around a right-wing influencer who directs his followers to commit violence. Which feels, it’s not exactly topical in this moment, but it feels like something we’ve been talking about for several years. What — what inspired you? Is there a specific moment or person that inspired you to write about that storyline?

This prompted Comey to suggest that right-wing podcasters were using the internet to reach and radicalize young men in a way akin to ISIS:

I’m trying to write stuff that grips people, but is also real. And this is a threat we’ve been dealing with since the Islamic State came on the scene in 2014 and was using the internet to reach troubled people and move them to violence. Well, that threat has now gotten much larger because podcasts are everywhere, and it’s a tool in white identity extremism trying to motivate young men. Especially to move towards violence because they’re being replaced, they’re being attacked, America is under assault. This is a real feature of the FBI’s work, and so I thought it would make an — a good setting for a crime novel.

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Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey — who really should be in prison, and if there’s any justice will be soon — seemed right at home with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki attacking Republicans as “white supremacist adjacent” after his little shell game was rightly denounced for the threat against President Donald Trump it represented.

In a grotesquely pandering interview more flaccid than Comey’s conscience, Psaki let the weaselly old Deep Stater do what he does best: lie. With the complicity of the former White House cover-up queen, Comey was given free rein to shrug off the violence implicit in his now-deleted “Cool shell formation” photo while shamelessly shilling his latest novel. Along the way, he worked his Comey over on a host of topics, taking aim at his political enemies like the conniving practitioner of politically weaponized justice he has long been. Not surprisingly, he saved much of his venom for the 47th president, whom, Comey is clearly “obsessed” with in a “weird way.”

Former FBI Director sent out a not-so-veiled signal to far-left progressive terrorists to continue their efforts to assassinate Donald Trump by posting a picture on social media that said, in seashells on a beach, “86 47.” Response from the DNC criminal media incudes headlines like this from the Boston Globe – “James Comey calls controversy over Instagram post ‘a bit of a distraction’.”

James Comey calls controversy over Instagram post ‘a bit of a distraction’– www.bostonherald.com
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Former FBI director James Comey says that he’s still a bit bewildered over how a seemingly innocent Instagram shot of shells arranged in the sand led to allegations by Donald Trump among others that he was calling for the president’s assassination and to an interview with the Secret Service.

“It’s been a bit of a distraction, honestly,” Comey said with a weary laugh Monday night during an appearance at a Barnes & Noble on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

Comey was promoting “FDR Drive,” a crime novel coming out this week. One of the book’s themes, ironically, is weighing the potential of speech to incite others to violence.

Comey, whom Trump fired in 2017 amid an FBI investigation into potential ties between Russia and Trump’s first presidential campaign, explained Monday that he and his wife, Patrice, had been returning from a walk on the beach last Thursday when they came upon some shells organized in a way that resembled numbers, including “86.”

They speculated over whether it was a home address, or a political message. His wife noted that “86” in some restaurants means they had run out of an ingredient. Comey remembered it was slang for saying something was boring and should be “ditched.”

“And she said, ‘You should take a picture of it.’ So I took a picture of it, and then we walk home and she said, ‘You should really put that on Instagram. It’s kind of a cool thing.’ I said, ‘You’re right. It’s a cool thing,’” he explained.

To many viewers, the numbers seemed to spell out 86 and 47. Merriam-Webster, the dictionary used by The Associated Press, says 86 is slang meaning “to throw out,” “to get rid of” or “to refuse service to.” It notes: “Among the most recent senses adopted is a logical extension of the previous ones, with the meaning of ’to kill.’”