'We can't delay': Prolific poster Trump got what he asked 'Pam' for with Comey indictment, but social media formulas cut both ways

President Donald Trump whitethorn travel a wide "do arsenic I say, not arsenic I do" formula, astatine slightest erstwhile it comes to posting connected social media, and peculiarly erstwhile it involves erstwhile FBI manager James Comey.

Comey faces his 2nd national indictment, months aft his archetypal was dismissed successful November 2025. The existent indictment, issued connected April 28, 2026, focuses connected Comey's alleged threats made via societal media against the president.

The menace successful question involves a May 2025 Instagram station spelling retired "86 47" successful seashells successful the sand, which prosecutors alleged is "a superior look of an intent to bash harm to the President of the United States."

Comey's ineligible squad indicated they would record a question to disregard based connected claims of vindictive and selective prosecution.

As is simply a common occurrence with Trump DOJ cases against his perceived enemies, the president's ain words often extremity up arsenic Exhibit A.

In a Truth Social post from Trump successful September 2025, helium straight addressed his then-Attorney General Pam Bondi to spell aft Comey, saying successful part, "We can't hold immoderate longer, it's sidesplitting our estimation and credibility. They impeached maine twice, and indicted maine (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!"

The tribunal whitethorn besides contented a swift dismissal, uncovering that Comey's station of shells forming numbers successful the soil was thing much than escaped code by mode of governmental hyperbole, thing the president himself is simply a instrumentality of.

The hold of state of code and interpretation

Prosecutors indispensable beryllium that Comey, via his representation of seashells and the numbers they spell out, was a nonstop convulsive menace to the president. However, the slang word "86" is commonly utilized successful the hospitality concern to region an point from the paper oregon diminution someone's service. The courts volition person to separate jest, idle talk, and governmental hyperbole from literal threats to kill.

If Comey was recovered guilty, this aforesaid exertion whitethorn use to immoderate fig of Trump's Truth Social postings, including 1 successful which helium holds a gun with explosives going off successful the inheritance successful a station astir the struggle successful Iran. Or stating, "We're aft you Bray, similar nary 1 has ever travel aft you before!" aft feeling betrayed by Senate Majority Leader Rod Bray successful a January post.

A authoritative could reason that "we're aft you" holds the aforesaid threatening code arsenic the fig "86."

In fact, an enforcement bid Trump issued during his archetypal word arsenic president — titled "Restoring state of code and ending national censorship" — issued successful absorption to his prohibition from Twitter and Meta, whitethorn extremity up being the proverbial smoking gun.

Comey's attorneys whitethorn privation to look astatine conception 1 of Trump's bid successful particular: "The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, an amendment indispensable to the occurrence of our Republic, enshrines the close of the American radical to talk freely successful the nationalist quadrate without Government interference."