President Donald Trump has accused former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey of calling for his assassination. Trump issued the accusation in an interview with Fox News, in reference to a now-deleted Instagram post made by Comey Thursday.
In the post, Comey featured a picture of seashells arranged in the numbers 8647. Many people, including White House officials and Donald Trump Jr. took the post as a threat toward Trump as “86″ is slang for getting rid of something and Trump is the 47th president. After outrage spread over the post, Comey deleted it and issued another message on Instagram.
“I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,” Comey wrote. “I didn’t realize some folks associate those number