DNI Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out Comey's Claim He Wasn't Aware '86 47' Associated with 'Violence'

Nick Kangadis | May 16, 2025
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When describing seemingly shady people, one could chalk that person up to being either dumb, ignorant or complicit. Sometimes that person could be all three or a combination of a couple of those traits within those three.

On Thursday, it came out that former FBI Director James Comey is under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for a now-deleted Instagram post in which he displayed a picture of seashells arranged on a beach in the numbers of “8647.”

Here’s a screenshot of the offending post, cited on X by conservative talk show host Steven Crowder:

For those playing the home game, 86 is a common term both among restaurants and criminals. “86” in restaurant terms means that the establishment is either canceling service of a certain item or that they sold out of a certain item. In the criminal world, “86” means to get rid of someone, specifically either “making them disappear” or straight-up killing someone.

And “47” obviously is a reference to current President Donald Trump. So, you put the two numbers together and voila!

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After Comey deleted the post, he released an explanation, saying that while he was aware of the political meaning of 86, he had no idea that “some folks associate those numbers with violence.”

As a former director of the FBI, and a prosecutor for years before that, how in the blue h-e-double-hockey-sticks was he not aware of the violent, and sometimes deadly, implications of the number, “86?”

Current Director on National Intelligence (DNI) spoke about the matter to Fox News’ Jesse Watters Thursday evening and doubted the validity of Comey’s alleged ignorance on the definitions of “86.”

“Comey himself admitted in his follow-on message that he knew that this was a political statement. Well, the only reason he knew that, Jesse, was because a little over a month ago, a bunch of anti-Trump, anti-Elon Musk protesters were proliferating the use of this ‘8647’ slogan, which was a veiled call to action to murder the sitting president of the United States.

So for Comey to think that we, the American people, are so stupid as to think that he as a former FBI director, former prosecutor, and someone who clearly pays attention to what’s going on, would believe his lie that he didn’t know what this actually was calling for, the dangerousness of this, Jesse, cannot be underestimated, when we have two assassination attempts on the president’s life.

When we have people who looks to guys like Comey, who’ve been celebrated by MSNBC and the Democrat elite and CNN as the ‘beacon of integrity,’ the ‘law and order guy,’ the ‘guy who would tell the truth no matter what the consequences.’ This is the guy who’s issuing a hit on President Trump, the president that the American people voted for.”

Couldn’t have said it better, really.

For Gabbard’s full comments, watch below:

 

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