Liberal activist and podcaster Ed Krassenstein has claimed that the Secret Service visited his house for posting “8647” in solidarity with disgraced former FBI Director James Comey.
The Secret Service additionally questioned Comey for his picture of seashells spelling out “8647” on X.
“Cool shell formation on my seashore stroll,” the hyper-partisan activist wrote.
In response to the outrage over Comey’s submit, Krassenstein additionally posted the quantity to his X account.
The next day, he was visited by Secret Service brokers, who mentioned they had been “despatched from Washington (DC).”
To all the Trump supporters who wish to fake this isn’t taking place and I’m making this up. Right here is the video.
They referred to as me at my gate in my neighborhood. I believed it was a hoax as a result of I figured they might have been in a position to get into the gate, so I walked over to make… pic.twitter.com/3bsHhRGdTu
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) May 17, 2025
In a Friday submit on his website, Krassenstein wrote, “This afternoon america Secret Service confirmed up at my door on the request of the Trump administration.”
Krassenstein claimed that the quantity, which many took as a name for assassination, is only a “frequent protest slogan utilized by Democrats to name for the impeachment or authorized elimination of Donald Trump, the forty seventh president. No threats. No violent rhetoric. Only a quantity. Actually, within the tweet thread I blatantly said that I by no means help violence in any means and need him faraway from workplace legally.”
He added:
Let me be crystal clear:
“86” is well-known restaurant slang for eradicating one thing.
“47” refers to Trump because the forty seventh president.
Put collectively, it means: take away Trump from workplace—legally, peacefully, and thru democratic means like impeachment or the twenty fifth Modification.
Krassenstein elaborated in a video posted to TikToK.
Comey has additionally denied that his submit was a name to violence.
“I didn’t notice some people affiliate these numbers with violence,” Comey wrote on Instagram. “It by no means occurred to me however I oppose violence of any sort so I took the submit down.”
Throughout an look on Fox Information, President Donald Trump mentioned he doesn’t purchase Comey’s rationalization.
Trump is correct.
How can Comey say with a straight face as the previous FBI Director that he doesn’t know what 86 47 means?
Arrest James Comey! pic.twitter.com/Iy6IaS4EKT
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) May 16, 2025
“He knew precisely what that meant,” Trump mentioned. “A toddler is aware of what that meant. If you happen to’re the FBI director and also you don’t know what that meant. That meant assassination, and it says it loud and clear.”
In a press release about Comey being questioned, a spokesperson for the Secret Service mentioned the company takes potential threats very significantly.
“The Secret Service vigorously investigates something that may be taken as a possible risk in opposition to our protectees. We’re conscious of the social media posts by the previous FBI director and we take rhetoric like this very significantly. Past that, we don’t touch upon protecting intelligence issues,” Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi mentioned in a press release.
Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has mentioned she believes Comey needs to be imprisoned for the submit.
Jesse Watters: “Do you imagine Comey needs to be in jail?”
Tulsi Gabbard: “I do…I’m very involved for the president’s life.”
That is fu*king ridiculous pic.twitter.com/3JRHVn8v2d
— Republicans in opposition to Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 16, 2025
“Some other particular person with the place of affect that he has, individuals who take very significantly what a man of his stature, his expertise and what the propaganda media has constructed him as much as be, I’m very involved for the president’s life,” Gabbard mentioned. “We’ve already seen assassination makes an attempt. I’m very involved for his life and James Comey, in my opinion, needs to be held accountable and put behind bars for this.”
