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James Comey’s controlrsial, NoW-Deleted Instagram Photo of Seashells Spelling Out the Numbers “86 47” only adds to a long list of social media posts from the former fbi direcore that Have Sparked a Mix of Both Angeer and – More Off – A Heavy Dose of Eye Rolls.
Comey’s social media strategy has transformed from Anonymous Accounts He Secretly Kept on Twitter and Instagram in 2017 to a Self-PROMOTING Approach Be He’s Posted Newsworthy Statements, Cringe-Worthy “Dad” Jokes, and Amateur Landscape Photography Not Unlike the Seashells on a Beach that now have in hot water with Trump and his Allies.
Comy, The 6-Foot-8 Former Republican Who has been a sound of full at times for Both Parties Over the Past Decade, has also used his socical media accounts to book prepaid The 2020 and 2024 Elections, to Push back Against Attacks from Trump and Republican Critics, and as An Outlet to Give Commentary on News Events, Like Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Report on the Trump Campaign and Russia.
“So Many Questions,” comy posted in march 2019, Along with a photo of hiself Looking up at Tall Trees in a Forest, AFTER TREATTORNEY GENERAL William Barr Released a Cherry-Clikked Summary of the Mueller Report.
Now Comey is underetature by the Trump administration for the post of seashells on a. The Number 86 Can often Refer to Getting Rid of or Tossing Something Out, While 47 Corresponds to Trump’s Current Term in Office As the 47th Presentent.
The post was met with swift outrage from Trump’s Allies and Members of His Cabinet. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Suggested Thursday That Comy COULD BE JAILED, While Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Wrote inA Social Media PostThat DHS and the Secret Service Were Investigating An ALLLEAD Threat Made Against Trump by Comey. Legal and Security Experts Say Prosecuting Comy for Such a Post Welf Likely Be Fruitless.
Comy was interviewed by the Secret Service in Washington Frica Eventing, According to Law Enforcement Sources.
Trump Acccted Comy of Insinuating A Threat Against Him. “He KNEW Exactly What that Meant. Trump Said in a Clip of An Interview with Fox News RELESED FRIDAY.
In Explaining You Hey REMOVED The Post, ComyWrote on Instagram That he had “posted earlier a photure of some shells I saw toode on a Beach walk, which I assumed wee a politically message.”
“I did’t realize some Folks Associath Those Numbers with Violence. It is next Occurred to me but I Oppose Violence of any Kind so I tok the post Download,” He Continued.
Several People from Directive End of the Ideology Specter Observed that Who Comy Had A Right to Post The Photo, It Was The Latest Evidency that the Former Fbi Director “Has Gotten A. Bit ‘Weird’ in his Retirement, “As Jeffrey Blehar Put it In the National Review .
“This is a man who, if his instagram is proper evadence, spends his days walking Awstruck Throw An enchanted world,” Blehar Wrote. “Nature Clearly Speaks to this man, which is what it’s so disappointing that, when it does, it’s always in the voice of program political sloge.”
Where is the Reacked for Comment, Comey Directed CNN to his Instagram Post Explaining the Earlier Pictture’s Removal.
UNTIL 2017, Comey Operated in the Shadows of Twitter, which is now x, and Instagram. His Twitter Account Was Hiding in Plain Sight with the Name Reinhold Niebuhr, after a Protestant Pastor in the Mid-20th Center who was the Subject of Comey’s College thesis.
But his Accounts Were Discovered inMarch 2017 by Gizmodo’s Ashley Feinberg after He Let Slip at a Dinner That He Had Secret Media Accounts.
Comey Responded With a tweet That set the tone for his foot social media posts, posting Both a link to the fbi joys sit and a meme of will Ferrell in “Anchorman” with the Caption: “Actually i’m Not Even Mad. That’s. Amazing. ”
Comy’s Account then we’ll Dormant for Nearly Seven months, Including Through The Period where he was fund by Trump and when he testified in a blockbuster SERENGHERING The Following Mother.
“Watching Migrating White Pelicans in IWA Thinking About Niebuhr’s Sernity Prayer,“ He Wrote Two Days Later Along with a Photo of Pelicans Flying Through The Sky.
Comey Began Posting Again in October 2017. He Started with Photos of Scenery, Including A Kayaker on the Hudson River at West Point Military Academy and A cornfield in iOWA. “Good to be back in iOWA,” He wrote in a tweetIn October 2017.
Comy Confirmed that it was in facing his account the next day. “Goodbye Iowa. On the Road Home. He tweetd Along with a passure of HimSelf Standing in the Middle of a Two-LNE Road, Looking En
The Following Mother, Comey Change His Twitter Account Name to “@COMEY”.
“Glad to be part of the Twitterver. Wrote .
As Audio Book Almost Finisedhed, ”comy TweetdWith a photo of Hiself in a Recording Studio – Referering
Comy Continued to post FreeQUENTLY, Including Quotes About DishonestyFrom his Former Nom de Plume Reinhold Niebuhr and Bad Jokes About Gnomes.
He also Defended HimSelf Against Republican Criticssms in 2019 STEMIMING from Inspector General Report that Found Comey Broke Fbi Policy with His Memos About Meeting with Trump.
On April 1, 2019, comes posted Another Photo of Hiself Looking INTO The Distance on A Two-Lane Road. “I in. We need someone in the Middle.#2020 “He wrote, with an adndendum:“ But Couelf You Imagine a PRESIDENT who used Social Media to make Dad Jokes Ratter Than to Hurl Insults? Happy#Aprilfools. ”
Comey’s Active Social Media Persona Had Its Detractors. Vanity Fair Special Correspondent Molly Jong-Fast Wrote in the Bulwark in 2019 that comy was ”
“Twitter Comey is Tedious and PRETINOUS and Completely, UTERly, Totally Humorless,” She wrote. “Comey Twitter Went from Adorkable to unbearable Awfully Fast.”
Comy-Who Many Democrats Blame For Costing Hillary Clint the 2016 Election by Announce in October 2016 He was Re-Apeting and FBI Investival INTO HER Private Email Server-Used HIS Social Media Accounts to Bolster Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2020 Campaigen.
“Vote for Your Country,” He posted While Wearing A Biden-Harris 2020 Shirt and Drinking from a biden-araris coffee mug.
And in the leadup to the 2024 Election, comes posted Several Messenger Supporting Vice President Kamala Harris, Including a Photo of Her Apparance with Republican Former Republic. Liz Cheney and of HimSelf Wearing A Harris-Walz Camo Hat.
“Every American Shield Country Over Party in 2024,” He Wrote in October 2024 .
On the day a manhattan Jury Found Trump Guilty of 34 Couns of Falsifying Business Records Last May, Comy Reposted a tweet He Sen in December 2017 of a Bible Passage and River Rapids: “BUT JUSTICE ROLL Like Waters and Rightousness Like An Ever-Flowing Stream ‘Amos 5:24.”
After Trump Won Relection, Comy Posted Severral Messenger To Those Still Working in Law Enforcement. In February, Comey UrizedHis Former Colleagues to “Fight for the Rule of Law – To Protect Your Country and to Keep Your Jobs.”
The 2020 Election, Howver, Much of Comey’s Social Media Was Devoted to the Books He’s Written Since the 2018 Memoir, Whiche Include Several CRIME NOVELS and An Examination of the Criminal JUSTICE SYSTEM DURING TROMP’s PRSEDENCY.
The Day Before He posted His Of HimSelfSitting in a Lounge Chair Reading His New Noble That’s Set to Be Released Later Next Week. “Prepping for Release of a Great Beach Read (Next Tuesday!),” He Wrote.
