The secret service examined former FBI director James Comey because he published ‘8647’
Former FBI Director James Comey met on Friday with the US Secret Service, after being invited to talk about social media posts, which Donald Trump’s supporters claimed to be a threat to the president, her official said.
The secret service, which is in charge of the presidential security, interviewed Comey at the Washington Survision Office on Friday afternoon, according to the secretary officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The meeting lasted about an hour, the official said, a. Comey voluntarily appeared after he was asked to come.
The secret service explored Comey’s post on Thursday on Instagram, which is a photo of a shellfish in the sand formed in 8647 with a comment: a cool shell formation on my walk in the beach.
In US Sleng, number 86 can be used as a verb that means to throw someone out of the bar for drunkenness or disturbance of public order and peace. Number 47, however, points to Trump – 47.
Comey, who was released by Trump in 2017, removed the announcement after the negative reaction of Trump’s supporters, saying on Instagram that it never occurred to him and opposed the violence of any kind. Therefore, he removed that post.
Some Trump supporters have interpreted a message as a call to a violent removal of Trump from duty, including assassination.
Trump himself accused Comey on Friday of calling for his assassination, dismissing the explanation of former FBI director of not aware of any violent connotations.
« He knew exactly what that meant, » Trump said in an interview with Fox News before leaving Abu Dhabi after a four -day trip around the Middle East.
Comey was not available for comment on Trump’s charge.
The themes « 8647 » and « 8646 » were used as political slogans both on T -shirts during the administration and Trump and his predecessor, the Democratic President Joe Biden, 46. US President.
The number 86 was also used by Republicans who called for the recall of Joe Biden and carried the « 8646 » inscription on the T -shirts, which is a call to the recall of bidet – 46.
Trump said that further action on the matter would leave the Attorney General Pam Bonda and others.
Sean Curran Secret Service Director « is a investigation into this threat, » the director of the National Intelligence Service Tulsi Gabbard told Fox News on Thursday night.
Gabbard rejected Comey’s explanation as absurd and said that the slogan « 8647 » was used by protesters against Trump and that it was a hidden invitation to action against the current president.
At the beginning of his first term, Trump fired Comey, who, as a FBI director, conducted an investigation into a possible Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
