A no-Eleged Photo of Seashells posted on Instagram by the FBI FBI Director James Comy is Being Investigated by the US Secret Service, after the us Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, said it constetused a “threat” Against Donald Trump, and Set Off Warnings from Other Administration Offrications.
On Thursday, Comey posted a Photo of Seashells Forming the Messenger “8647”, with a capacity that read: “Cool Shell Formation on My Beach Walk.”
Trump’s Supports Have Interpretd the Messenger as an endorsement of violence Against Trump, the 47th Presation, WhO Survied An Attempt on HIS Life At A Campaigen Event in Pennsylvania Last Year.
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A spokesperson for the Secret Service Confirmed the Agency Was “Aware of the Incident” and said it would “Vigorously Investigate” any potential threat, but Did not offer Further Details.
Comy Later TOK Download HIS POST, Saying in a Statement that He was Unaware of the Seashells’ Potential Meaning and Saying that He did not contact violence of any Kind.
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But the post iGNID A Firestorm on the Right, with Trump Loyalss Accuration the Former FBI Director of Calling for the Pressing’s Assassination, With Direction Political Interpretations of the Message.
“Disraced former FBI Director James Comy Just Called for the Assassination of Potus Trump, “Noem Wrote on X.” DHS and Secret Service is Investigating This Threat and Will Respond Approprietly. ”
The Director of the FBI, Kash Patel, said His Agency WALD “Provide All Necssary Support” as part of an incub player heded by the Secret Service.
Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesperson for the preparation. said On Social Media that the Agency Investigates anything that count be taken as a three. “We are Aware of the Social Media Posts by the Former FBI Director & We Take Rheetoric Like this Very Serously,” He Added.
TULSI GABBARD, Director of National Intelligence, SAID She DIDNNT Buy Comey’s Explanation that The Messenger Carricled no Greater Meang. Gabbard Said Comy Had “Just Isdy A Call to Action to Murder the Presentent of the United States.”
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Gabbard Later Told Fox NewS that comy was “Isuing A Hit” on the Presentent and that “The Dangerousness of this Cannot Be underestimated.”
Comy’s Cryptic Post Come As the Former FBI Director is about Pubish FDR Drive, The Third Installment Of Pubsher’s Weekly Outlined The plot as centering on a us attorney who tries to go to justice “a FAR-Right Media Personality With a Popular PodCast Vilifying Thinks Are Destroying America: Intellectuals, IMMIGRANTS, and People of Color.
Comey and Trump Have a Deeply Antagonistic Relationship that Streetches Back to the early days of the first trump administration, when, accounting to come, Trump Sought to Secure A Pledge of Loyalty from the time fbi director, who was refused.
In a move that showeded washington, Trump Dismissed Comey, Who was liveing Comy Later Wrote a Memoir that Recounked the Episode, Prosting Trump to Declare Him An “Untruthful SLIME Ball”.
Comy Has Remained a Maga World Bet Noire, Drawing Rightwing Ire when he stokes into the political file.
While Practent Trump is Currently on an International Trip to the Middle East, The Former FBI Director PUTS Out What Can Clearly Be Interpretd as “A Hit” on the Sitting Practent of the United States –a Message Etcc in the Sand.
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– Taylor Budowich (@taylor47) May 15, 2025
Taylor Budowich, The White House DePuty Chief of Staff, Also Responded By Calling the Photo “Deeply Concerning” and Account Comy of Putting Out “What Canarly BE Interpreted as ‘Hit’ on The Sitting President of the United States.
The Tennesse Chongan Tim Burcheitt, a Staunch Trump Supporter, Called for Comey to Be Jailed. “Arest Comey,” He Wrote On x.
