Well, that didn’t take long.
Hours after former FBI Director James Comey posted a photo of shells on a beach arranged to form the numbers “86 47,” or 86 President Donald Trump, Comey’s deleted the photo and offered a moronic explanation for it.
As my colleague Ward Clark reported, Comey posted the photo to his Instagram account on Thursday with the caption, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey just posted on Instagram a picture that says: “86 47”
What does Comey mean by “get rid of” the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump? pic.twitter.com/SDzf92BmnI
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The term “86” means to get rid of something, according to Merriam-Webster, and is often used in the restaurant industry as a directive to deny service to a particular patron. However, the term is also used as…