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Fox News producer Johnny Belisario confronted James Comey at a book signing to ask about his attention-grabbing anti-Trump Instagram post. But the former FBI director remained tight-lipped until Belisario was led away wanting more.
James Comey, who is under investigation for an Instagram post about Trump, said he believes the judiciary will protect him from a dubious prosecution.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary traces “86” to “1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out. There is varying anecdotal evidence about why the term eighty-six was used, but the most common theory is that it is rhyming slang for nix.”
Former FBI director James Comey stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, where Colbert asked him his thoughts on current Trump-appointed FBI director Kash Patel. Comey was fired by President Trump in 2017,
A Fox News producer was ushered out of James Comey’s book signing after confronting the former FBI director about a social media post that President Donald Trump claimed called for his “assasination.” The “Jesse Watters Primetime” segment,
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Niece has called that reaction "ludicrous," and said it was intended as a show of support for former FBI Director James Comey. On May 15, Comey made a similar Instagram post and was then accused by Republicans of encouraging Trump's assassination.
Wednesday's political cartoons feature James Comey's Instagram, Donald Trump calling Vladimir Putin, a Utah public lands dispute, Joe Biden, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
James Comey’s controversial, 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 director that have sparked a mix of both anger and — more often — a heavy dose of eye rolls.