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.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused former FBI Director James Comey of “issuing a hit” on President Trump late Thursday, arguing he should be “put behind bars”

The former FBI director shared a social media post that some assumed was an incitement of violence against Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump is not buying former FBI Director James Comey‘s claim that he did not intend to call for violence against the president with his recent controversial social media post. Comey posted on his Instagram account a formation of seashells which spelled out “86 47,

Trumpworld is treating a beach photo of seashells spelling “86 47” like a coded assassination order. The outrage is absurd, and it’s also a pretext for something far more sinister: punishing Trump's enemies.

The former FBI director is being investigated for an Instagram post in which he showed seashells arranged to say “86 47.” It is presumed that ’86’ was used in its traditional sense to say “get rid of” and 47 was representative of the 47 th president, Donald Trump, who fired Comey early in his first term for malfeasance.

Threats against the life of a sitting President of the United States are federal crimes. And unlike a teenage meme-maker in his parents’ basement, James Comey knows this. He ran the FBI. He once enforced this standard. Now he wants to pretend “8647” is just some harmless number? He should be prosecuted.

A cryptic Instagram post by former FBI Director James Comey has triggered a political firestorm—and a federal investigation—after critics claimed it hinted at violence against former President Donald Trump.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reacts to former FBI Director James Comey's now-deleted Instagram post of a formation of seashells on a beach that spell "8647." 86 is slang for getting rid of something or killing someone.

Since retaking the White House, the Trump administration has targeted students, law firms and even elected officials for speech and other activity traditionally protected by the First Amendment.