There’s This: Comey’s Own Family Called His ’86 47′ Post a ‘Call for Violence’ — and Said He Belongs in Prison

So the sequence is: wife sends him a definition of “86,” he posts “86 47” spelled in seashells, a family member calls it a death threat, he deletes it. And his defense is that it never occurred to him what those numbers meant.

The federal charges are substantive: knowingly and willfully making a threat against the President, and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. Two concerned citizens in Emerald Isle — one of them a member of law enforcement — reported the post to local police as a threat. They took it seriously. Comey’s own relative took it seriously. AG Todd Blanche has taken it seriously.

The irony of the Comey prosecution is almost too precise to acknowledge without pausing on it. This is the man who prosecuted federal cases. Who ran the FBI. Who oversaw the Crossfire Hurricane operation that turned federal law enforcement against a sitting president. Who opened a criminal investigation of Donald Trump specifically because Trump exercised his constitutional authority to fire the FBI director.

That man now faces federal charges for threatening the president’s life — and his own family is on record in court documents saying he should go to prison.

.@DAGToddBlanche: “You cannot threaten the President of the United States. That’s not my decision, that’s Congress’ decision, in a law that they passed — and so, yes, of course this is a serious case.” https://t.co/zcDzOisIrm pic.twitter.com/IC9YroOhs9

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 29, 2026

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