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Fox News producer Johnny Belisario confronted James Comey at a book signing to ask about his attention-grabbing anti-Trump Instagram post. But the former FBI director remained tight-lipped until Belisario was led away wanting more.
Former FBI Director James Comey defended his Instagram post of '86 47' seashells, saying he had no ill intent but that he did regret the distraction it caused.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary traces “86” to “1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out. There is varying anecdotal evidence about why the term eighty-six was used, but the most common theory is that it is rhyming slang for nix.”
He told MSNBC host Nicole Wallace during an interview that his wife, Patrice Failor, was the one who spotted an arrangement of seashells during a walk along a beach spelling out the numbers “86” and “47”—and that she explained their meaning to him.
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey pointed fingers at President Donald Trump’s administration Monday for their so-called
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Former FBI Director James Comey is being investigated by the Trump administration again after he posted a picture of shells spelling out "8647" on social media. President Trump and multiple administration officials,
A Fox News producer was ushered out of James Comey’s book signing after confronting the former FBI director about a social media post that President Donald Trump claimed called for his “assasination.”
FNC's Shannon Bream hosts Juan Williams, Kevin Roberts, Tiffany Smiley, and Susan Page to discuss FBI Director James Comey's coded "8647" message and the release of the Biden-Hur tapes demonstrating the former president was completely out of it more than a year before he dropped out of the 2024 election.