Former FBI Director James Comey’s fate for posting what many within the administration saw as a thinly veiled threat against the life of Donald Trump could lie in the hands of one of the president’s staunchest allies, former Fox News host and judge Jeanine Pirro, whom he just appointed as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Comey landed in hot water last week when he posted a picture of seashells arranged on a beach to form the numbers “86 47,” with the “86” being an old mob-era term for a “hit” and “47” taken to mean Trump, the 47th president.
“Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” Comey said in the post with a photo of the shells.
Not long after Comey’s Instagram post, he deleted it and posted an explanation claiming he thought the shells were a “political message” but that he never intended it as a threat to Trump.
