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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino: James Comey ‘brought shame to the FBI again’ with ’86 47′ post

by May 18, 2025
May 18, 2025 0 comment

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino issued a sharp and public condemnation of the bureau’s former director, James Comey, Saturday, accusing Comey of disgracing the agency as authorities investigate Comey’s controversial ’86 47′ Instagram post.

In a statement posted to X, Bongino said Comey’s actions are another example of failed leadership that continues to haunt the agency.

‘Former FBI Director James Comey brought shame to the FBI badge, yet again, this past week,’ Bongino wrote. ‘The Director and I spend an inordinate amount of time cleaning up messes left behind by former Director Comey. And his latest actions are no exception.’

Comey, dismissed by President Donald Trump in 2017, sparked outrage after posting a photo to social media Thursday showing seashells arranged to say ’86 47,’ a phrase widely understood to mean to ‘get rid of’ the 47th president. Though Comey later deleted the post and claimed it was misunderstood, many, including Trump, say the meaning was clear.

‘He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant,’ Trump said Friday on Fox News. ‘If you’re the FBI director, and you don’t know what that meant, that meant ‘assassination,’ and it says it loud and clear.’

Comey offered a follow-up statement online, saying he ‘didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence’ and that it ‘never occurred to me.’

Bongino strongly rejected that explanation, describing it as part of a larger pattern of misconduct. In his post, Bongino wrote:

‘As the Deputy Director of the FBI, I am charged, standing with Director Patel, with managing the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world. The Director and I are also responsible for looking at grave mistakes made by people within the FBI in the past, and ensuring they never happen again.’

He stressed the FBI’s continuing commitment to supporting federal law enforcement partners investigating any threats involving public officials, past or present.

‘While the FBI does not have primary investigative responsibility for investigating threats against the POTUS, and we do not make prosecutorial decisions, we do have the ability and authority to support other federal agencies for violations of federal law,’ Bongino said. 

‘And we certainly have a responsibility to comment on matters involving former FBI officials, and allegations of law-breaking.’

The U.S. Secret Service has already interviewed Comey about the incident. FBI Director Kash Patel said in a separate statement that the bureau is ‘in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran.’

Bongino noted that this latest controversy is part of a general legacy of dysfunction inherited from Comey’s leadership, which he and Patel are working to fix from the inside out.

‘As I’ve stated in the past, I cannot post openly about all the things the Director and I are doing to reform the enterprise, but I assure you, they are happening,’ Bongino wrote. ‘Sadly, many of those agenda items are the result of former Director Comey’s poor decision-making and atrocious leadership.

‘And to those who doubt me, I assure you, when you see what the Director and I see from the inside, it’s even worse.’

Bongino said he chose to post his statement now because his scheduled interview with FOX Business anchor Maria Bartiromo, which will air Sunday on ‘Sunday Morning Futures,’ was recorded earlier in the week, before the Comey post was made public.

‘I’m addressing this now, rather than on our interview with Maria Bartiromo [Sunday], because we recorded that interview earlier in the week prior to the incident with Comey,’ he explained.

He closed with a message to the country that echoed his support for the law enforcement community and the reforms underway at the FBI.

‘God bless America, and all those who defend Her,’ he said.

Bongino, a former NYPD officer and longtime Secret Service agent, was appointed deputy director of the FBI earlier this year. 

His leadership under Director Kash Patel reflects a broader effort by the Trump administration to restore accountability and integrity to the FBI after years of what many see as politically motivated misconduct.

The FBI did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for further comment.

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