{"id":353043,"date":"2026-05-01T05:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/trump-doubles-down-on-86-as-mob-term-for-murder-after-comey-indictment-over-alleged-threat"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:54:55","slug":"trump-doubles-down-on-86-as-mob-term-for-murder-after-comey-indictment-over-alleged-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/trump-doubles-down-on-86-as-mob-term-for-murder-after-comey-indictment-over-alleged-threat","title":{"rendered":"Trump doubles down on ’86’ as mob time period for homicide after Comey indictment over alleged menace"},"content":{"rendered":"


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President Donald Trump doubled down on his claim that the term “86” is a “mob term” for a killing as former FBI Director James Comey faces a federal indictment over a social media post of seashells arranged to read “86 47.”<\/p>\n

“’86’ is a mob term for ‘kill him.’ They say 86 him! ’86 47′ means ‘kill President Trump,'” Trump wrote in a social media post Wednesday night, before going on to assail Comey as a “Dirty Cop” who “knows this full well!”<\/p>\n

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FILE PHOTO: A combination of file photos show U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. April 9, 2018 and former FBI Director James Comey on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2017.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Comey, who was indicted on Tuesday by a federal grand jury in North Carolina, made an initial court appearance<\/a> on Wednesday after self-surrendering to law enforcement at the courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia. Comey did not enter a plea.<\/p>\n

The former FBI director, who was fired in 2017 by Trump during the president’s first term, faces one charge of threats against the president and successors, and one charge of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce.<\/p>\n

The indictment<\/a> centers on a controversy that erupted nearly a year ago when Comey, in a since-deleted Instagram post, shared a picture showing the numbers “86 47” written in seashells on the beach with the caption “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”<\/p>\n

“EIGHT MILES OUT, SIX FEET DOWN! Didn\u2019t he also lie to the FBI about this??? I think so!” Trump said on Wednesday night, describing his apparent interpretation of what the eight and six represent.<\/p>\n

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The Merriam-Webster dictionary, which lists several definitions<\/a> of “eighty-six,” says the most common use for the informal saying is to describe a way “to refuse to serve” or “to eject or ban” a customer from a restaurant or bar. The dictionary says it’s often used as a way to say something has been removed. The American Heritage dictionary says the term may have derived as a rhyming slang for “nix.”<\/p>\n

The origin of the president\u2019s assertion that the term comes from the mob is unclear. A search of scripts from the American Film Institute’s top 10 gangster films shows no instance of the phrase being used, despite Trump referring reporters to mob movies on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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“You ever see the movies? ’86 \u2019em’ — the mobster says to one of his wonderful associates, ’86 ’em.’ That means kill ’em. It\u2019s — I think of it as a mob term,” he said.<\/p>\n

Republican Sen. Thom\u00a0Tillis said he did some of his own research on the term.<\/p>\n

“I searched to the end of the internet last night, I can’t find one example where the number 86 had anything to do with any violent threat. So hopefully there’s more to it than just the picture in the sand,” Tillis told reporters on Wednesday. “Otherwise, I just think it’s another example of where we’re going to regret this because we’re setting a fairly low bar and political physics, like I’ve said around here for years, is what it is. For every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction.”<\/p>\n

Tillis later added, “maybe there’s deep history in the use of this word and communicating threats. I just can’t find it anywhere.”<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice in announcing that the indictment that had been handed up said that “a reasonable recipient [of Comey’s image] who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the President of the United States.”<\/p>\n

And while the president has repeated his claim that Comey’s post was a call for him to be killed, Trump appeared to hedge when asked directly Wednesday whether he believed his life was in danger.<\/p>\n

“Probably, I don\u2019t know,” he said. “You know, based on — based on what I\u2019m seeing out there, yeah.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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