Oh, James Comey—once the golden boy of the intelligence community, now reduced to playing beachside numerologist while promoting his fiction novel on Instagram. One might expect a former FBI director to know a thing or two about discretion. Instead, he’s out here posting cryptic “shell formations” that spell out 8647, a not-so-subtle numerical suggestion to “86” the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. And then—shock of all shocks—he acts surprised that anyone would interpret it as a threat. Please.
Let’s stop pretending this was innocent. We’re not talking about a random teenager posting edgy jokes. This is a man who ran the nation’s top law enforcement agency, who now claims he didn’t know what “86” means. Spare us the naiveté. It’s not like this is obscure slang tucked away in the back of an Urban Dictionary entry. “Eighty-six” is as widely understood as “code red” in a diner kitchen. If a sitting FBI agent posted something this reckless, they’d be disciplined immediately—or worse. But James Comey? He gets a free pass because he’s the Resistance’s favorite martyr.
NEW: James Comey deletes his “8647” post from Instagram and posts a “clarification” post, claims he had no clue the numbers were associated with violence.
“I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence …”
This guy is such a dork and a fraud. Insane how he… pic.twitter.com/D79ro9VzJH
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 15, 2025
What’s even more appalling is the media’s predictably ho-hum reaction. If a Trump supporter had posted anything close to this when Joe Biden was in office—imagine a photo of a rifle shell casing in the sand with a caption like “46 done”—you can bet we’d have a national meltdown. CNN would be running it on loop. Congressional hearings would be launched before the post could even be deleted. But because it’s Comey, and the target is Trump, we’re told to calm down and take him at his word. That’s rich.
Let’s not forget, this isn’t just some edgy joke in a vacuum. This comes in the wake of two assassination attempts on Donald Trump in the 2024 campaign trail—both of them real, violent, and deadly serious. One cost a man his life in Pennsylvania. The other was stopped by the keen eyes of the Secret Service near Mar-a-Lago. So no, this isn’t just about some numbers in the sand. This is about rhetoric, symbolism, and the responsibility that people like James Comey ought to understand that comes with their platform.
Comey has spent the last eight years turning himself into a martyr for the anti-Trump resistance, cashing in on his political vendetta with books, talk show appearances, and now apparently dabbling in literary cryptography on Instagram. It would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous.
This isn’t about political disagreement anymore. This is about someone who once wielded federal power, now using his influence to stir up hostility against a presidential candidate who has already survived multiple attempts on his life. How many more times does it have to happen before someone in the mainstream media admits there’s a real threat environment brewing here?
And let’s not gloss over the fact that this post was deleted. Comey says he took it down because people “interpreted it the wrong way.” No, Jim—you took it down because you knew it was reckless. You knew exactly how it would land, and once it did, the cleanup crew kicked in. Now we’ve got Homeland Security and the Secret Service involved, and rightly so. This is exactly the kind of “gray zone” behavior that should raise red flags in any threat assessment.
In light of this, we went to the far-left social media site Blue Sky to see how the left feels. Comey isn’t going to be happy.
James Comey about to do hard time for Seashell Numerology.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) May 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
James Comey is a narcissistic menace.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) May 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Were it not for James Comey, Trump would never have become president.
— Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social) May 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
FUCK YOU JAMES COMEY.
I DONT CARE.
— Pearlmania500 (@pearlmania500.bsky.social) May 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
And there’s a lot more where that came from. If Comey was looking for some help, he’s not getting it.
There’s a word for this kind of messaging: stochastic. It’s about encouraging the unstable to do what the influencer can’t say outright. And when it comes from a former top cop, it doesn’t just cross a line—it obliterates it.
This isn’t leadership. This is cowardice in a cardigan. Comey may not be in government anymore, but he’s still playing political games with serious stakes. Let’s hope the Secret Service treats this for what it is: a threat, veiled or not. Because whether you wear a red hat or not, we should all agree that encouraging—or even vaguely gesturing toward—violence against a presidential candidate is not just wrong. It’s criminal.
