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In an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Trump didn’t hold back. He flat-out rejected the idea that a man who ran the FBI could be ignorant of such a term.
“He knew what that meant. A child knows what that meant,” Trump told Baier. “If you’re FBI director and don’t know what that meant, that meant assassination and it says it cloud and clear. He wasn’t very competent but competent enough to know what that meant. He did it for a reason and he was hit so hard because people like me and like what was happening with our country. All this, he is calling for assassination of the president.”
For someone who spent years in the highest levels of law enforcement and once served as a federal prosecutor, claiming ignorance on this kind of coded language raises serious credibility issues.
Trump made it clear that he believes the post was intentional and malicious. According to the former president, this wasn’t a mistake. It was a deliberate, dangerous message.
Comey has since apologized for the post, but the damage is done. His reputation, already badly bruised from his central role in launching the discredited Russia collusion hoax, has taken another massive hit.
Bret Baier pushed Trump on whether he wanted to see Comey face criminal prosecution for the post.
“He apologized, he is — what do you want to see happen?” Baier asked.
While Trump has often been accused—wrongly—of seeking revenge through political prosecution, he declined to weigh in on Comey’s legal fate. Instead, he left it to others, specifically singling out former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and other legal experts.
“I don’t want to take a position on it, it will be up to Pam [Bondi] and all the great people,” Trump replied. “I will say, I think it is a terrible thing. When you add his history to that, if he had a clean history, he doesn’t, he’s a dirty cop. If he had a clean history, I could understand if there was leniency, I will let them make that decision.”
Those aren’t words Trump tosses around lightly. Referring to Comey as a “dirty cop” is a reminder of the damage done during the FBI’s politically motivated investigations into Trump’s 2016 campaign—investigations that have since been thoroughly discredited.
Now, the Secret Service has reportedly taken an interest in Comey’s post, and an investigation may already be underway. If true, it signals that the government isn’t brushing this incident under the rug.
Comey’s bizarre beach photo may have been an attempt at clever symbolism or a twisted joke. But it’s no laughing matter to millions of Americans who see it for what it really looks like—a dangerous signal from a disgraced former official who’s never accepted Trump’s enduring influence over American politics.
And if authorities find cause for concern, James Comey may finally face accountability—not for his politics, but for what critics are calling an incitement cloaked in plausible deniability.
