{"id":1619,"date":"2026-08-21T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:43:22","slug":"relative-blasted-comey-over-86-47%e2%80%b2-seashell-message-calling-it-a-call-for-violence-court-doc-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"Relative Blasted Comey Over \u201986 47\u2032 Seashell Message, Calling it \u2018a Call For Violence,\u2019 Court Doc Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A new court exhibit in the federal criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey reveals that an unnamed relative sent a blistering text message to his wife, Patrice Comey, blasting them over his May 2025 Instagram post of seashells arranged to read \u201c86 47,\u201d calling it \u201ca call for violence\u201d against President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1618\">ActBlue Co-Founder Pleads Fifth in House Investigation Into Foreign Donations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The seashell \u201cassassination threat\u201d trial is scheduled to begin on October 21, 2026, in New Bern, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The relative, citing \u201cTrump Derangement Syndrome,\u201d wrote: \u201cI have held my tongue for a long time, but I just can\u2019t do it anymore.\u00a0You guys have really gone off the deep end over the years with your TDS. \u201986 47\u2032 is a call for violence no matter how you spin it. You should be ashamed of yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comey is a longtime critic of President Trump, who fired him as FBI director in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The relative\u2019s message further accused the couple of hypocrisy, stating, \u201cI am thoroughly embarrassed to have ever defended the absolute coward that is your husband. You and Jim are some of the least accepting, most hypocritical people I\u2019ve had the displeasure of knowing. I hope Jim goes to jail for his crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comey maintains the message was political hyperbole using restaurant slang for \u201cremoving an item,\u201d but the Department of Justice has collected evidence suggesting otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>An additional court document reveals Patrice Comey sent her husband a Google screenshot of a nonviolent definition of the term \u201c86\u201d two minutes before Comey posted the alleged threat against President Trump, indicating they knew his post could be construed as a threat and were searching for plausible deniability.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibits support federal prosecutors\u2019 allegations that the fired FBI director committed stochastic terrorism by deliberately posting inflammatory rhetoric in mass media to incite violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department is using Comey\u2019s fictional thriller novel, \u201cFDR Drive\u201d to prove he committed stochastic terrorism when he posted the \u201c8647\u201d seashell message.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1616\">First U.S. Deportees Arrive in Liberia Under Trump Administration Agreement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors argued in a new court filing late Tuesday night that the post was a coded message to kill President Trump, noting that the book features a right-wing character who used similar coded messages to incite violence against enemies while avoiding direct responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s where a charismatic leader jacks people up, but through the wonder of the Internet, avoids a direct connection to what comes next,\u201d Comey reportedly wrote of his book,\u00a0 which came out just five days after he posted the alleged seashell threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows an attack will follow his words but he closes his eyes so he can say he wasn\u2019t part of it,\u201d Comey continued. \u201cPeople are susceptible to [social media] messages that offer a sense of purpose through violence,\u201d Comey added helpfully,\u00a0 because those messages are \u201cin your pocket reaching you constantly through your buzzing phone [i]t\u2019s an order of magnitude more effective and more dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn May 15, 2025, a charismatic leader named James Comey, through the wonder of the internet, posted a coded message to his followers meaning \u2018kill\u2019 or \u2018get rid of\u2019 (a euphemism for \u2018kill\u2019) President Trump,\u2019\u201d the filing in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina stated.<\/p>\n<p>The filing was in response to a filing by Comey\u2019s lawyers seeking to dismiss the indictment against him on the grounds of vindictive and selective prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no serious dispute that an objective viewer of Comey\u2019s post could read it to mean \u2018Kill President Trump,\u2019\u201d U.S. Attorney W. Ellis Boyle\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors also reportedly argued in a court filing this week that \u201cthere is reason to doubt\u201d Comey\u2019s story he just happened to stumble on an \u201c86 47\u201d seashell formation while walking with his wife on the Emerald Island, North Carolina beach. \u00a0The shell formation was allegedly located behind a sand dune in a spot beachcombers would not easily discover, and according to the prosecutors, \u201cthere is no evidence that anyone else arranged, photographed, or even saw the shells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1614\">UK Government Gives Asylum Seekers Guide Explaining Rape, Age of Consent, Women\u2019s Rights<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new court exhibit in the federal criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey reveals that an unnamed relative sent a blistering text message to his\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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