Ex-FBI Director James Comey says he doesnt expect to be charged over 86 47 Instagram post: Ridiculous

Former FBI Director James Comey doesn’t expect the Trump administration to take any further action against him over an Instagram post some, including the president, viewed as a call to assassinate the commander in chief. In his first public remarks since sharing an image of seashells arranged on a beach to form the numerals “86 47,” Comey told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace he found it “hard to have regret” over the post that he still believes looks “totally innocent” — saying it was “crazy” anyone would see it as a call for violence.“I don’t know how we ended up here,” the ex-FBI chief said of the commotion that got him on the Secret Service’s radar.  “It never occurred to me it was any kind of controversial thing, but that’s the time we live in.”Comey explained that when he saw the shell formation on the beach, he believed it was “some kind of political message” regarding the 47th president, and his wife encouraged him to photograph it. “We stood over it and I said, ‘I think it’s some kind of political message,’ and she said, ‘’86’ when I was a server’ — she did a lot of working in restaurants – ‘meant to remove an item from the menu when you ran out of ingredients,’” Comey said.

“And I said, ‘Well, to me, as a kid, it always meant to leave a place, to ditch a place.’ I said, ‘That’s really clever.’”“So then she said, ‘You should take a picture of that.’ And I did, and I posted it on my Instagram account and thought nothing more of it.”“I heard through her that people were saying it was some sort of a call for assassination, which is crazy,” the former FBI head continued.“But I took it down.

Even if I think it’s crazy, I don’t want to be associated with violence of any kind.”Comey, who was fired by Trump in May 2017 after serving as FBI director since September 2013, said he received a call from the Secret Service the night he posted the cryptic shell photo and was i...