“… In an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, Trump said Comey knew exactly what he was doing—despite his assertion that it was an innocent shell formation.
“He knew what that meant. A child knows what that meant,” Trump said. “If you’re FBI director and don’t know what that meant, that meant assassination and it says it loud and clear.
“He wasn’t very competent but competent enough to know what that meant. He did it for a reason and he was hit so hard because people like, they like what was happening with our country, the country has become respected again and he is calling for the assassination of the president.”
Baier brought up Comey’s apology. “I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,” Comey, whom Trump fired in 2017, said after deleting the snap.
“I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but l oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”
… Baier asked what the president would like to see happen as a consequence of the post. He said he’s leaving that up to his lieutenants.
“I don’t want to take a position on it, it will be up to [Attorney General] Pam [Bondi] and all the great people,” Trump said. “I will say, I think it is a terrible thing.
“When you add his history to that, if he had a clean history, he doesn’t, he’s a dirty cop. If he had a clean history, I could understand if there was leniency, I will let them make that decision.” …”
The former FBI director posted a photo of seashells on the beach—and the president saw a sinister hidden message.
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