Trump says Comey called for ‘assassination of the president’ in ‘8647’ post

A combination of file photos show U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. April 9, 2018 and former FBI Director James Comey on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2017.

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President Donald Trump said Friday that former FBI Director James Comey was “calling for the assassination of the president” in Comey’s since-deleted social media post that featured the numbers “8647.”

“He knew exactly what that meant,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. “A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know … that meant ‘assassination.’ “

“Our country’s become respected again, and all this, and he’s calling for the assassination of the president,” Trump said.

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