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James Comey blames wife for infamous â8647â post in Colbert interview
Asked what he thought of President Trumpâ??s pardoning of January 6 rioters, Comey said â??It was an obscenity that will stain this country foreverâ??
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Former FBI head James Comey shed yet more light on his infamous â8647â social media post during an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday night.
Comey told Colbert that he was walking on the beach with his wife, Patrice, when they noticed the formation in seashells. Comeyâs wife asked him, âDid someone put their address in the sand?â
The couple stared for a while before Comey said he realized it was likely a âclever political message.â He credited his wife with recognizing the term â86â to mean get rid of from her time working as a restaurant server.
âShe said, âYou should take a picture of it,â I said, âSure.â Then she said, âYou should Instagram that,â and then boom!â he added.
Since posting the pic, Comey has drawn swathes of criticism from the MAGA world, including calls for him to be jailed. Comey was appearing on the show to promote his new book, a legal thriller titled FDR Drive.
He also confirmed to Colbert that the Secret Service had since called him in for an interview.
James Comey has explained the real meaning behind his controversial 8647 post (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)âWe stood at it â looked at it, trying to figure out what it was, and she had long been a server in restaurants, and she said, âYou know what I think it is? I think itâs a reference to restaurants when you would 86 something in a restaurant,â Comey also said.
Colbert appeared to understand the reference and clarified, âLike off the menu?â
Comey continued to explain to Colbert that the reference was something he thought it was a âclever political message,â but said, âNo, I remember when I was a kid, you would say â86â to get out of a place. âThis place stinks, letâs 86 itââ.
The host appeared to understand Comeyâs explanation and said he was familiar with the term â86â in food settings.
âI was a bartender, you would 86 a customer if they were getting drunk. Like, âLetâs 86 them, give them a low-proof alcohol or something like that,â Colbert said.
According to a journal from the American Dialect Society, â86â is a slang term used to signal that a food or drink item is no longer available or that a customer needs to leave. The dictionary site Merriam-Webster also corroborates this understanding as a term used "to throw out,â or âget rid ofâ.
The infamous was posted to Instagram by former FBI director James Comey on Thursday, May 15, 2025, which conservatives argue contains a veiled threat against President Donald Trump (James Comey/Instagram )However, Trump and MAGA have insinuated that the post was a âthreatâ to the presidentâs life.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed Comeyâs post, taking to social media to say: âWe still donât know a single thing about Thomas Crooks, who shot the President. So whatâs going to happen to James Comey, who just issued a death threat to the President?â
Comey was then asked by Colbert what he thought about Trumpâs decision to pardon or commute over 1,500 January 6 rioters.
âIt was an obscenity that will stain this country forever,â Comey said.
âIt sends terrible messages in that direction [referring to the prospect of future political violence]. It totally undercuts the deterrent effect of prosecutions. It sends a terrible message to people who might investigate crimes like thatâ.
âYou are not going to get ahead in the FBI by working stuff like that, given what you saw happen with the pardons,â he added.
James Comey has revealed the true meaning behind his controversial 8647 post (AP )Last week, President Trump responded to Comeyâs post by drilling down on the accusations that his message âmeant assassinationâ.
Backpedaling on his post, Comey took to Instagram late Thursday evening to defend his actions after deleting the image.
âI posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didnât realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me, but I oppose violence of any kind, so I took the post down.â
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose agency oversees the Secret Service, confirmed that the DHS and the Secret Service were investigating the post as a âthreat and will respond appropriately."
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