Former FBI Director James Comey was interviewed by the Secret Service Friday evening after President Trump accused him of calling for the commander in chief’s assassination by posting a photo with the coded message “8647” to his Instagram account.
Video aired by CNN showed Comey, 64, departing his suburban Virginia home for the interview, held at the Secret Service’s Washington field office.
A federal law enforcement source confirmed to The Post that Comey arrived for the sitdown shortly before 6 p.m.
Comey, who was fired by Trump in May 2017 after serving as FBI director since September 2013, caused an outcry Thursday evening when he posted a photo of seashells arranged in the numerals with the caption: “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”
The number “86” is commonly used in the restaurant industry as slang to mean getting rid of something — especially in reference to menu items or unruly patrons. Trump is the 47th president of the United States.
“He knew exactly what that meant,” Trump told Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier in an interview recorded Thursday. “A child knows what that meant … That meant ‘assassination.’”
Comey subsequently deleted the picture, claiming he didn’t understand what the message meant in its entirety.
“It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down,” the now-crime novelist wrote.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday her department had launched an investigation into the “threat” made by the “disgraced former FBI director.”
Trump was wounded by an assassin’s bullet at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024, and nearly shot at by another would-be assassin at his West Palm Beach, Fla., golf course on Sept. 15, 2024.
Secret Service counter-snipers killed the first gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, within seconds of him opening fire at the Pennsylvania event.
The second gunman, Ryan Wesley Routh, dodged gunfire from other Secret Service agents but was later arrested and federally charged.
Before being fired, Comey had probed allegations of unlawful collusion between Russian officials and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign based substantially on since-debunked intelligence contained in the infamous Christopher Steele dossier.
Special counsel John Durham revealed seven years later in a lengthy report that the FBI’s Russia investigation was “seriously flawed,” had no basis in evidence and was begun in part as the result of a plot by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
“U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee [in 2016],” the May 2023 report stated.
Durham’s findings couldn’t confirm how the FBI first obtained “details of the Clinton Plan intelligence,” but disclosed that it was raised at a meeting President Barack Obama convened with Comey and then-CIA Director John Brennan in the Oval Office on Aug. 3, 2016.
“He’s a dirty cop,” Trump ripped Comey in his Fox News interview before insisting that Attorney General Pam Bondi go hard after the former G-man.
The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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