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highplainsdem

(63,149 posts)
Fri May 16, 2025, 02:03 PM May 2025

In Fox News interview set to air tonight, Trump says "dirty cop" Comey knew what 86 meant, was calling for assassination [View all]

AL.com article - https://www.al.com/politics/2025/05/trump-says-dirty-cop-former-fbi-director-meant-assassination-with-86-47-seashells-picture.html - that I also posted about in LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143460176

President Donald Trump said there was no doubt what former FBI Director James Comey was implying when he posted a beach photo showing seashells arranged with the message “86 47.?

“He knew exactly what he meant, a child knows what that meant … that meant assassination,“ Trump told Fox News’ Bret Baier during an interview on ”Special Report” set to air Friday night. “And it says it loud and clear.”

-snip-

“Now, he wasn’t very competent but he was competent enough to know what that meant. And he did it [posted the photo] for a reason, and he was hit so hard because people like me and they like what’s happening to our country … He’s calling for the assassination of the president."

-snip-

“I think it’s a terrible thing, and when you add his history to that, if he had a clean history – he doesn’t, he’s a dirty cop …



Aaron Rupar post with video on Bluesky:

Trump on Comey: "He knew exactly what that meant ... it meant assassination. It says it loud and clear ... he's calling for the assassination of the president ... it's gonna be up to Pam ... he's a dirty cop."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-16T13:13:22.753Z



Rupar's identical post on Twitter is in reply 1 of the KBN thread.
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This is topic #1 on rightwing X today underpants May 2025 #1
Well at least they're off Pres Biden for now.... Lovie777 May 2025 #3
I'd been searching for AI and copyright news earlier, hadn't looked at the Trending topics on X. Just highplainsdem May 2025 #9
That is crap ..... I didn't know what the writing of 8646 ... 86 47 means. What the crud !!!!!!!! Trueblue1968 May 2025 #15
It's apparently been political shorthand for impeach (46 Biden or 47 Trump) for years, and MAGA highplainsdem May 2025 #16
They live for the next exaggeration and extrapolation underpants May 2025 #23
We are living in the upside world clevergrrrl May 2025 #34
Stupid tRump is stepping on his own story of his mid-east tour. Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #2
Trump should be thanking Comey for helping him defeat Hillary surfered May 2025 #5
Trump only "knows" because someone told him. Ms. Toad May 2025 #4
Good point. And leaving out the normal meaning while explaining it to Trump would probably have been deliberate. highplainsdem May 2025 #17
Yup. n/t Ms. Toad May 2025 #21
He was told once they had to 86 kacekwl May 2025 #30
. Ms. Toad May 2025 #37
I remember hanging Pres Obama in Effigy Conjuay May 2025 #6
Wrong again. moondust May 2025 #7
I wish that were true, and the "kill" meaning is rarely meant, but Wikipedia cites a slang highplainsdem May 2025 #13
I have never ever heard it referred to that. Ever. Self Esteem May 2025 #25
I don't doubt you at all. It's not the normal usage. But Trump and his followers will do everything highplainsdem May 2025 #28
Still doesn't change the meaning... Self Esteem May 2025 #29
According to Groc AI womanofthehills May 2025 #36
"particularly in organized crime" moondust May 2025 #38
Video from Rupar's Bluesky post Dennis Donovan May 2025 #8
I am your retribution malaise May 2025 #10
How do we know it's not Lh98? Abolishinist May 2025 #11
If that was true, he'd address it quietly rather than publicizing a call for his own assassination unblock May 2025 #12
86: Maxwell Smart. (ref. "Get Smart" for us fossils.) nt Buns_of_Fire May 2025 #14
Interesting, I'm familiar with Maxwell Smart but not aware of the '86' origin. Abolishinist May 2025 #24
I thought a "dirty cop" was someone who took bribes....hmmmmm, reminds me of someone else. Raven May 2025 #18
He's looking for validation.... kentuck May 2025 #19
You Know Is Tr**p Posted Such A Photo And There Was An Uproar Around It...... global1 May 2025 #20
Who cares? Prairie Gates May 2025 #22
My father was a ham radio operator . bmbmd May 2025 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author highplainsdem May 2025 #35
I've only ever heard it used by bartenders. jls4561 May 2025 #27
yeah...me too stillcool May 2025 #32
In a restaurant.. whathehell May 2025 #33
86 46 stickers and other kacekwl May 2025 #31
A beach photo? MorbidButterflyTat May 2025 #39
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