Author Breccan F. Thies profileFormer Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey has been indicted by the Justice Department on charges related to an apparent threat, “86 47,” posted to social media in May 2025.

Comey is charged with “knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of, or inflict bodily harm upon, the President of the United States and knowingly and willfully transmitting a communication in interstate and foreign commerce that contained a threat to kill President Donald Trump,” the indictment states.

Comey’s post, which depicted seashells on a beach formed into the “86 47” message, has been broadly viewed as a not-so-subtle threat to President Donald Trump, and part of a larger left-wing campaign of assassination prep against Trump and other conservatives, meant to desensitize the American public to violence against the political right. …

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