Former FBI Director and all-around traitor to our governing order James Comey just had a family member rat him out over his problematic threat against President Donald Trump, the guy who fired him for disloyalty.
The man who spent years positioning himself as the conscience of American law enforcement now has a family member on record calling his Instagram post a threat against the president’s life and saying he deserves jail.
Court records from James Comey’s federal prosecution reveal that a relative sent a text message to Comey’s wife Patrice calling the seashell “86 47” photo “a call for violence no matter how you spin it.” The message went further: “You should be ashamed of yourselves. I am thoroughly embarrassed to have ever defended the absolute coward that is your husband. You and Jim are some of the least accepting, most hypocritical people I’ve had the displeasure of knowing. I hope Jim goes to jail for his crimes.”
“Call for violence.” “Coward.” “Goes to jail.” These words came from inside the Comey family — not from conservatives, not from Trump supporters, not from political opponents. From someone who knew him well enough to feel personally embarrassed by him.
The court documents reveal something that makes Comey’s “I didn’t know what 86 meant” defense completely unsustainable. Two minutes before he posted the seashell photo, his wife sent him a screenshot of a cropped definition of U.S. English slang indicating that “86” means to get rid of or refuse service. He knew there was controversy associated with the phrase. He posted the seashell image anyway. Then he deleted it “later that day” — after receiving the family member’s text.
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
AG Blanche said it clearly: “You cannot threaten the President of the United States. That’s not my decision, that’s Congress’s decision, in a law that they passed — and so, yes, of course this is a serious case.”
No one is above the law. James Comey spent years saying so. Now he’s finding out it applies to him too.
