From Schumer’s ‘Whirlwind’ Threat To Comey’s ‘8647,’ Assassination Prep Is The Left’s MO
Former FBI Director James Comey appeared to call for the assassination of President Donald Trump in a social media post Thursday, but his outburst is just one in a long line of far-left lunatics whose extreme rhetoric has laid the groundwork for violence — and assassination attempts — against conservative political figures.
The social media featured a seashell arrangement of the numbers “8647” — a clear reference to the numbers “86” meaning “to get rid of,” and “47,” the presidency number of Trump’s second term in office.
The Trump administration said it was taking the threat seriously, and the dopey former FBI chief then 1) claimed that he stumbled across the message on the beach instead of make the formation himself, which is almost certainly untrue, and 2) that he genuinely had no idea that ’86’ is associated with violence — again, hard to believe.
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As Ed Martin, former acting U.S. attorney for D.C., put it: “From Schumer Whirlwind to Comey 86 you get Butler or worse … their plan is killing: they are a clear and present danger.”
In 2020, then-Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., threatened Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, should Roe v. Wade be overturned.
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind,
and you will pay the price,” Schumer bleated to a crowd of angry people in 2020.
By May of 2022, more than a month before the official decision came down, someone leaked a draft of the would-be Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that would overturn Roe.
And sure enough, by early June, there was someone apparently willing to heed Schumer’s call. A California man admitted he traveled all the way from Los Angeles to Kavanaugh’s Montgomery County, Maryland, home “with the intent to kill the Supreme Court Justice.” Thankfully, he never had the chance.
But these are not isolated incidents. In fact, there are too many examples to lay out here.
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Trump was nearly assassinated himself twice within the last year. In Butler, Pennsylvania last July, he was shot in the ear by a bullet that was about one inch away from killing him.
That came after years of Democrat invective attempting to cast Trump as an authoritarian dictator sympathetic to the worst indulgences of petty tyrants.
Even coming that close to an assassinated former president did not stop the vitriol. Just days before the 2024 election, former Vice President Kamala Harris was dutifully there, weaponizing debunked attacks against Trump to spew the exact same kind of rhetoric that encouraged the assassination attempts. Far-left friends in the corporate media were there to help, too.
Before Harris was undemocratically anointed the candidate to run against Trump, former President Joe Biden was the one claiming electing Trump would mean an end to civil rights, democracy, and the United States as we know it.
In 2017, a supporter of far-left Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., successfully shot and nearly killed Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (at the time, majority whip), at a Republican practice session for the Congressional Baseball Game. Following the incident, many Republicans condemned Democrats’ extreme rhetoric against Trump and other Republicans as fanning the flames of violence against Republicans.
To make matters worse, it was recently revealed that the FBI tried to downplay the political motivation of the would-be assassin, whom former Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., recalled “was there to kill as many Republican members as possible.”
As The Federalist reported, a recent House Report explained how the FBI used ‘”false statements, manipulation of known facts, and biased and butchered analysis’ to claim that the man who shot Republicans while they were practicing baseball in 2017 had no connection to domestic terrorism,” with Scalise adding that the FBI “completely mishandled the investigation into the Congressional baseball shooting of 2017 — ignoring crucial and obvious facts in order to sell a false narrative that the shooting was not politically motivated.” Comey, for his part, had only recently departed the bureau by the time the shooting took place.
And then there’s Rep. Maxine Waters, the crazed Democrat from California, who has a long history of encouraging political violence — some of which is laid out in a resolution to expel her from the House of Representatives. Dating back to the early 1990s, Waters was inciting “rebellion” and stoking flames during the Rodney King riots.
On the heels of a public confrontation where Trump’s former White House press secretary, now Arkansas governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she was kicked out of a restaurant because she worked for Trump, Waters took it quite a few steps further: “If you see anybody from [President Trump’s cabinet] in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them that they are not welcome anymore, anywhere,” she said.
Calls encouraging violence only ever seem to come from one political group, and actual violence only ever seems to flow in one direction: toward conservatives or Republicans. Democrats know this, they have been called out for it, and yet they still use this kind of rhetoric every chance they get.
It is becoming harder to ignore the reason why.
Breccan F. Thies is a correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.
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