Trump accuses former FBI director of calling for his killing through coded picture
by Edward Helmore in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#6XB3J)
James Comey posted picture of shells arranged to say 8647', using common slang for kicking a customer out of a bar
Donald Trump accused the former FBI director James Comey on Friday of calling for his assassination in a coded social media post written in seashells.
Comey's Instagram post - a photograph of seashells on a beach arranged to spell the numbers 8647, which he captioned Cool shell formation on my beach walk" - was used by rightwing supporters of Trump to claim that it was a call to assassinate the US president. The Secret Service said it has launched an investigation.
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