clarified in a new post<\/a> that he did not intend to call for violence and didn\u2019t realize his message would be interpreted that way.<\/p>\n\u201cI posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,\u201d Comey wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement to The Hill, a spokesperson for the Secret Service said the agency \u201cvigorously investigates anything that can be taken as a potential threat against our protectees.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take this responsibility very seriously and we are aware of the social media posts in question,\u201d the spokesperson continued. \u201cBeyond that, we do not comment on protective intelligence matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
FBI Director Kash Patel also weighed in on the matter in a post Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are aware of the recent social media post by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump,\u201d Patel wrote on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran. Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
Comey has in the past publicly criticized Trump, who fired him as head of the FBI in 2017. Comey backed former Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid in 2024 and former President Biden’s bid in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem accused former FBI Director James Comey of calling for President Trump\u2019s \u201cassassination,\u201d saying federal law enforcement authorities are now investigating the \u201cthreat.\u201d \u201cDisgraced former FBI Director James Comey just called for the assassination of @POTUS Trump,\u201d Noem wrote on the social platform X on Thursday evening. \u201cDHS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}