James Comey's anti-Trump derangement jut hit a new low with dangerous post
Former FBI Director James Comey's anti-Trump derangement jut hit a new #resistance-theater low with his post of a photograph of shells arranged to spell out '8647.'
I.e., kill the 47th president, Donald Trump.
Comey's Instagram post included the comment, 'Cool shell formation on my beach walk,' but there's no way he didn't realize the meaning.
Of course when the post blew up, Comey had the nerve to pretend he had no idea what it meant — though he did admit he thought it was 'political,' so maybe he's just confessing to being drug-addled or an idiot?
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says her department and the Secret Service are investigating.
Let's recap.
The former head of the nation's top law-enforcement agency, which absolutely deals with political violence and threats, arranges a bunch of shells on the beach into a call for killing a president he doesn't like, pretends he just 'found them there' — and then claims he had no idea what the whole thing was about.
It's astonishing that someone capable of such a bizarre, transparent stunt ever managed to become an entry-level FBI hand, let alone the bureau's head.
Then again, Comey's bumbling goes back to the lapdog 'investigation' of Hillary Clinton's national-security-defying email follies through falling for (or cynically selling) the RussiaGate hoax.
So maybe Comey's trademark arrogance and narcissism made something like this to be expected.
Most likely, he pulled this stunt to drum up publicity for his soon-to-be-published thriller 'FDR Drive' (which, with characteristic obliviousness, takes as its subject a crusading attorney fighting to criminalize speech).
Or maybe he genuinely meant it as some real, if clumsy, declaration of . . . 'resistance' or something, before he realized just how dumb it was.
That is, he only belatedly thought to imagine the hysteria if, during the Obama years, a prominent foe of the president had posted '8644' after that had become a far-right meme.
Such a failure to consider the obvious would be classic Jim Comey.
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