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FBI Director Kash Patel is fuming, and you can’t blame him. He has agents chasing down “copycats” who think it’s open season on threatening President Donald Trump, all because former FBI Director James Comey decided to play cute with a cryptic Instagram post. You know the one, seashells on a beach spelling out “86 47.”
As if we don't know what that means.
Bureau brass told Fox News Digital they’re fed up, saying they need to be laser-focused on “public safety, not cleaning up after political stunts.” Can’t argue with that. Patel, sitting down with Fox News’ Bret Baier, didn’t mince words about the mess Comey’s “beachside venture” has caused.
The FBI’s now stuck playing whack-a-mole with wannabe assassins, inspired by Comey’s post.
“Do you know how many agents I’ve had to take offline from chasing down child sex predators, fentanyl traffickers, terrorists because everywhere across this country, people are popping up on social media and think that a threat to the life of the president of the United States is a joke and they can do it because he did it?” Patel said. “That’s what I’m having to deal with every single day, and that’s what I’m having to pull my agents and analysts off because he thought it was funny to go out there and make a political statement.”
An FBI official, keeping the exact number of these “copycat” threats under wraps due to ongoing probes, told the outlet that the volume is “significant.” That’s code for “it’s a lot, and it’s a problem.”
Meanwhile, Comey had to drag himself to D.C. this month to explain his artsy seashell post to Secret Service officials, per two sources who spoke with Fox News Digital. The post, now deleted, showed “86 47” in shells with a caption: “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” Ha, he implied that he just came across the formation.
Some folks read “86” as “get rid of” and “47” as Trump, the 47th president. Gee, wonder why. Comey, catching heat, played dumb, which for him is a 'left-hand job': “I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,” he wrote in a follow-up. “I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”
President Trump, in a May sit-down with Brett Baier, wasn’t buying it. “He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant,” Trump said. “If you're the FBI director, and you don't know what that meant, that meant ‘assassination,’ and it says it loud and clear.”
The FBI is not laughing.
Some folks read “86” as “get rid of” and “47” as Trump, the 47th president. Gee, wonder why. Comey, catching heat, played dumb, which for him is a 'left-hand job': “I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,” he wrote in a follow-up. “I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”
President Trump, in a May sit-down with Brett Baier, wasn’t buying it. “He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant,” Trump said. “If you're the FBI director, and you don't know what that meant, that meant ‘assassination,’ and it says it loud and clear.”
The FBI is not laughing.
One official laid it out for the outlet: “What people need to understand is that every copycat threat forces the FBI to divert time, agents and resources; resources that should be spent saving lives and taking criminals and deadly drugs off our streets.”
They’re not wrong. The Bureau’s got better things to do than mop up Comey’s mess, especially when lawmakers in places like California and New York are still caping for him. The official added, “This kind of chaos was normalized by someone who knows better, and the director reminds lawmakers… that we should be focused on public safety, not cleaning up after political stunts.”
Comey’s little beach art project has the FBI scrambling, and Patel’s team is stuck dealing with the fallout. Next time, maybe stick to collecting seashells instead of stirring the pot, Jim.
Comey’s little beach art project has the FBI scrambling, and Patel’s team is stuck dealing with the fallout. Next time, maybe stick to collecting seashells instead of stirring the pot, Jim.
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