Comey's cryptic shell post: Letters to the Editor — May 19, 2025

New York Post

18-05-2025

The Issue: An investigation into James Comey's Instagram post with shells arranged to read '86 47.'
Let me be clear, I have no respect for former FBI Director James Comey ('Comey 'shore' is vicious,' May 16).
When he announced in 2016 that the facts did not support charging Hillary Clinton for keeping a private e-mail server for government business in her home, he showed the world that in America, there are different rules for the politically connected and the poor.
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In 2017, when he gave notes taken during conversations with President Trump to The New York Times, he probably broke the law himself.
But the Trump administration should not criminally charge this clown now with making a threat or inciting violence by posting the numbers '86 47.'
Charging someone with a crime because of what their speech might mean, as opposed to what certain speech definitely means, would be far from upholding free speech in America.
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Joseph Jordan
Butner, NC
Comey posted a picture of seashells positioned to read '86 47.' He later claimed he hadn't known what that meant.
The former director of the FBI, appointed by former President Barack Obama, claims he does not know what the term 86' means. Read that again.
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Comey should be in jail.
Paul Jablonski
Cape Coral, Fla.
The Post's Friday report on the James Comey incident made President Trump's eldest son sound like someone overreacting to a message that meant 'do not serve' or 'get rid of' in a restaurant. Apparently it's also mob code for 'kill' — instructions to take a victim eight miles out of town and bury him six feet under.
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We can't possibly understand how Trump's family felt upon learning of the neatly arranged signal, but they definitely did not think it meant their father shouldn't be admitted to a restaurant.
I hope The Post will have fuller reporting in the coming days.
Dierdre Burgman
Manhattan
In the wake of former FBI Director James Comey's shell-formation 'discovery' in the sand, I hope he gets woken up at 3 a.m. by 30 armed FBI agents to take him in and search his house.
Please, Attorney General Pam Bondi, eliminate the threat against President Trump.
Mike Santavicca
Yonkers
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The Issue: A member of Diablos de la 42's alleged recent attack on a 16-year-old autistic boy.
They may be too young to be jailed, but not too young to be booted out of the country ('Too young to be jailed,' May 15).
Why do we have to put up with these ungrateful migrant criminals?
These kids are nothing but future trouble. This illegal community must know that if you violate our laws, the entire family gets deported with no chance of return.
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Susan Green
Manhattan
What an outrage. Why can't they be deported?
I don't see any Democrats rushing to care about the poor autistic boy who these kids beat up and robbed.
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I would send the Diablos de la 42 kids to CECOT. I bet they wouldn't be smirking and flashing gang signs then.
Carol Meltzer
Manhattan
The Venezuelan gangbangers who continue to terrorize New Yorkers are taking full advantage of the laws enacted by the progressive idiots in our government. These laws protect them from prosecution, detention or getting shipped back to wherever they came from.
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Radical changes need to be made to our existing laws, and the morons that put them in place to begin with need to be removed from office.
Thomas Urban
Wantagh
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