Deep State Littlefinger James Comey Removes His Mask

By John Kass

Sunday May 18, 2025

What kind of grown man  plays with seashells on the beach, pointing out patterns and secrets he finds there?

A dangerous man.

A manipulator, a narcissist, a passive-aggressive Littlefinger like the character Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish from “Game of Thrones” who played a serial betrayer. A ruffiano, a gossipy whisperer, the kind of guy you’d never turn your back on:

James Comey, former director of the FBI.

And now he exposes not only himself, his theatrics also explain how he destroyed the credibility of the FBI by elevating other like-minded weasels to power, such as his former counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok who claimed he could smell Trump voters at the Walmart.

Comey posted a message on X that should put him behind federal bars for a long time. He threatened the life of President Trump, who has already faced two other assassination attempts. Comey posted on X a photograph of shell formations as if found by coincidence. “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”

The dangerous narcissist got a reaction, but panicked and then, guiltily deleted his post.

“I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn’t realize folks associate those numbers with violence,” Comey wrote on Instagram.

What do we say in Chicago to that?

Bullshit.

We’re not your chumbolones, Mr. Comey.

86 means eight miles out of town and six feet deep. It means to kill, to get rid of. He’s the former top cop of America who investigated the Gambino crime family. So, he knows what 86 means.

And 47 is direct reference to the 47th President of the United States.

There is no mistake.

“He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant … That meant ‘assassination,’” Trump said in an interview with Bret Baier on Friday. “He’s calling for the assassination of the president,” Trump said after the Comey post drew major backlash from the president’s allies.

“He’s a dirty cop,” Trump said. He adding that Comey’s fate will be decided by Attorney General Pam Bondi, but that he thinks there should be no leniency.

Comey never offered leniency. But now he hopes he’ll be judged kindly. He set people up, and bragged about it all to adoring audiences on hard core anti-Trump left-wing MSNBC. He is a weasel. He set up false attack after false attack on Trump. He schemed with Barack Obama and the CIA’s John Brennan on the so called “Russia collusion” hoax that was amplified by left wing media. Responsible jurists and law-enforcement officials have turned their backs on him. His only constituency is the hard left and violent Jacobin lunatic fringe where he seeks support in fantasizing the assassination of the president.

I pray he’ll be left alone in an interrogation room, to be peered at by new U.S. Attorney Jeanine  Pirro, fixing him with her gaze the way a raptor stares at her prey.

He deserves everything coming to him.

According to Susan Crabtree of Real Clear Politics, the Secret Service may try to force Comey to answer pointed questions into a social media post he issued depicting an image of “8647,” but a U.S. attorney whom President Trump appointed will determine whether to prosecute Comey over the post.

“If Comey refuses to comply with their request for what’s known as a protective intelligence interview, the Secret Service leading the investigation into the Instagram post can apply for a subpoena through an assistant U.S. attorney. It’s that prosecutor who will determine whether the former FBI director is legally required to answer their questions, and the full U.S. attorney in the office ultimately will decide whether to bring charges against him for threatening the president, Secret Service sources tell RealClearPolitics.”

 

He wants to murder the president? Here’s an idea: have him drink half a gallon of olive oil, then strap him to a large block of ice. Maybe he’ll figure it out why a grown man playing with seashells by the seashore is dangerous.

President Trump almost had his head blown off at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. And he was almost shot to death by another lunatic, Ryan Wesly Routh, who waited for the president near a fence on a golf course with a rifle. Comey is one of those pompous asses who prattled on and on about context.

That is the context St. James, you put out a call for assassination and you know they’re out there.

Apparently, Comey has a book coming out and he’s using controversy to sell it, like another man without honor, Jake the Fake Tapper. But there might be another reason. According to the Federalist’s book editor, Mark Hemingway, intent is the key to prosecuting this case. And that intent was revealed just before he posted a favorable review of his crime novel. Comey wants to sell his book? He might very well have sold himself down the river by broadcasting intent.

“If the prosecution depends on the establishing the “context” and “nature of the statement” to prove intent, a case against Comey could very well consider the plot of his recent novel, which is damning,” Hemingway writes.

Yes.

The Deep State is on the run, licking its wounds of course, still dangerous, but publicly humbled.

My brother Nicholas, the smartest man I know, who has spent years analyzing the Deep State–and has served our country most honorably at CIA, National Security Council and the U.S. State Deparment, discussed about a possible reason in an X post:

 

Back in January 2024  he wrote an article for @theamgreatness asking whether voters would finally condemn the Deep State or embrace it along with their own subjugation. We now have the answer to that question. President Trump’s epic victory against the odds marked the greatest comeback in US political history. More importantly, it represents a thorough public repudiation of the Deep State and its authoritarianism, operations, puppets and supporters, and ideological pretensions and other emanations. These include Harris, Pelosi, the Bidens, the Obamas, the Clintons, the corporate media, the woke religion in all its sects and forms, the “Resistance,” and “the Adults in the Room.”

“Trump’s victory is also a powerful rebuke to neoconservatism, the Cheney’s and Cheneyism, and the Never Trumpers, who waited and plotted for the day they could wrest control of the GOP from a defeated Trump and reduce it to their plaything, a perennial junior partner in Deep State, Establishment chicanery and forever wars.” Kass writes.

“The very size and ethnic and economic class complexities of the Trump coalition shocked the Establishment and especially bureaucratic, media, and Democratic Party elites. The Deep State ruling class’ de facto “for the people in spite of the people” approach, and its insistence on censorship and official misinformation ops to manage allegedly unruly unwashed masses (the “garbage,” to use Biden’s term), underscored their physical, spiritual, and intellectual decadence, and their isolation from regular people and their concerns.”

Without constant approval, these creatures have no relevance. Their worst punishment is to be ignored.

Littlefinger James Comey has been left alone. Events and Trump has passed Comey by. Trump’s recent speeches on his middle east tour serves as a reminder he wants not only to defeat the neo-conservatives, but to mock and destroy them.

But it isn’t over.

I see Comey, after all he’s done, raging as he’s ignored. As I can see leftist lunatics like Routh waiting near a fence, yearning for validation by people like Comey.

My brother Nick writes:

“Beyond this, other challenges may well emerge. Historical examples from other countries suggest that, for a time, Deep State impulses can be suppressed. However, if ignored or otherwise left unaddressed, these impulses, nurtured in any environment where there is a lack of transparency or accountability in government operations, can resurface at moments of crisis or perceived weakness among elected civilians. —In this context it is particularly useful to consider the history of Kemalist-era Turkey, from which the Deep State concept and terminology originated. My article here.

So, be vigilant. It’s not over yet.”

Littlefinger is out there. He’s hurt, yes, enraged at being ignored, hoping disciples will follow him. But his guiding principle is that “chaos is a ladder” and all his life he’s been climbing.

“Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again,” says the Littlefinger in Game of Thrones. “The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb.”

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Comments 44

  3. Great reading with my Sunday coffee at sunrise. Thanks John.

    As your brother correctly writes about a lack of transparency and accountability, I’d add consequence.

    The deep state is at war with many of us, but we are too busy living out our American dream (or trying to) to respond. They need to be removed of all they hold dear; power and money. Then exiled. But that’s cruel and unusual. So we won’t do that.

    They’re like mold. Sometimes the entire house needs to be gutted to remove it. Otherwise it returns.

    1. Yes, black mold in the house is an apt description. It keeps coming back in dark, damp places until the house is dried out and intense light is applied to kill it once and for all. Then, tbe dark, damp places thst it hides in need to be prevented from reoccurring, which takes constant light.

    2. A great column – another classic. But deeply disturbing, as well. The deep state can so easily reemerge if the powers that be aren’t vigilant. And vigilance is something that is rarely practiced for any length of time. That is frightening!

  4. Good Morning:

    It’s been difficult seeing this snake back in the news. You hit the nail on the head by describing how
    he did more damage to the reputation of the FBI than anyone else. Every individual who signed that letter officially denouncing the Hunter Biden laptop should be investigated. I think you omitted one of the most egregious offenses this weasel perpetrated early on: His cowardly “interview” and “set-up” of Intelligence Secretary Mike Flynn. They blackmailed him by threatening to go after his family. President Trump was given a very rude awakening to the manner in which this deep state would treat him, and now this guy is writing books.

    1. the 236 questions he replied under oath “i don’t know”, “i can’t recall”, i don’t remember” should be cross referenced to the book!

  6. Trump has to fight every established entity we have. Deep State, Dem’s Rep’s, Intelligence agencies, media, Academia and all the college graduates I see every holiday sitting around the table. In the 1960’s, he would have been a Hippy, now the hippies run the world and got a taste of power and have poisoned themselves, their children and country with woke, selfish ,poison. I voted for the Populist that has no party. I am an Old Blue Dog, the Dem’s hate me, the Rep’s dismiss me. We are a short bump in the road….2028 will not be “MAGA”, it will be one of the earlier entities mentioned above. CTU re- elected the criminal Marxists, these voters are mostly women….with advanced college degrees. Our only hope is that Latinos step up in force and start voting for God Country and family.

  7. We all knew he was a liar. Most Politicians are and the Democratic party especially has lied and lied for the last 50 years folks. No more integrity John is most people and they have no clue what Honesty and Integrity are. So sad. They are fighting for Illegals while the American Citizen pay and pay and they get free health care and benefits. Ridiculous.

  8. Bullshit ! Bullshit Comey ! That should be his new tag name.

    Didn’t know what 86 meant. Oh pullllleeeezzzzeeee ! Hey Jim….maybe you should be 86ed.

    This guy should be in jail NOW, prosecuted next week and put away, if not executed.

  9. Their naked hatred and defiance is astonishing to me. They lost the election, and still will never stop.

    I was disappointed that his home wasn’t searched immediately, and that he wasn’t dragged out in handcuffs. He deserves a harsh punishment for calling for the assassination of our President. Fingers crossed that Bondi will bring the full force of the law onto him. Make him the example of what happens when you “jokingly” incite violence.

    Such a great column, John. Thank God you are still able to be the voice for us true patriots.

  11. James Comey is 7 feet of sanctimony who has outed himself as the cowardly lion! The fact that his daughter, Maurene Comey, is still employed at the DOJ and is the lead prosecutor in the Diddy case is proof that Nicholas Kass is correct when he warns us the Deep State won’t be dead until we drive a stake through its heart!

  13. The Hillary crime? He said “pass.”
    His code-to-kill seashells? Takes brass.
    This murderous homey
    Corrupt lawyer Comey
    Requires a jail cell for his ass.

  14. Appreciate your analysis as well as the insights from your brother, Nick. Comey is indeed a snake – but more likely one head of the Hydra of the deep state. I pray that justice is swift and severe!

    1. I doubt anything serious will happen. He can claim he didn’t know what it meant.
      It’s dangerous to our freedom to go after this low life. Better to prosecute those students calling for the death of Israelis, Jewish students, Zionists. this not worth it publicity wise.
      Ill tell you my story about my brush with the law. I write for a small magazine in Lake county. I wrote a column about a state pol who got caught not paying taxes and then to save his pension turned rat/informant. You know who if you think about it. I had a picture of his face on rats body for article. TWO FBI AGENTS CAME TO SEE ME! The agents claimed I was trying to silence him from testifying in court. Had to get a lawyer and apologize. Same with Comer. He will do a mea culpa.
      But this is scary 1st amendment wise.

      1. Then you both had – or will have – your first amendment rights violated. And as the Court has made clear over the years the First was not just designed to protect speech to which everyone agrees … and threats must be “real” – more substantial than just mere isolated ideations (Brandenburg v Ohio, 1969).

  15. Great job as always, Mr. Kass. What bothers me the most about this guy is what he did to the reputation of the FBI. I worked with the FBI throughout my own 36 year law enforcement career and had many close Friends in the FBI. The highest compliment one Cop can give another is that you would be willing to put your life in their hands. I worked with numerous FBI Agents that fit that level of trust for me, as I hope I did for them.

    When this guy opted not to prosecute hillary clinton (lower case intentional) for clear violations regarding handling of classified material, I realized how politicized he was. When he was among the advocates of the “Russian Disinformation” fiasco, I knew I was right. And now, with this childish (I’m avoiding my usual “Cop descriptive terms” here) seashell nonsense I am astounded that an allegedly well-educated person would post something like this, regarding someone who has had two verified assassination attempts aimed at him. I don’t care whether you like President Trump or not, to do something this stupid is really something.

  16. Good column Mr. Kass!
    It is a striking reminder that this Republic has become what the founding fathers wanted to avoid. We have a political and bureaucratic class that feel entitled to control Americans with weaponized laws and policies that do nothing but empower a select few.

    As we have so recently seen, our politicians and judges allow criminals to enter our country with impunity and then provide security and safety to same criminals when the time comes for accountability, at the detriment of the Republic and its law-abiding citizens.

  17. Yianni,
    Perhaps it’s time to revisit the guillotine as a form of punishment for crimes against the state? Or perhaps, draw and quarter the criminal – it takes longer! Comey is a has been – and has been for the longest time. His ego is writing checks that his body can’t cash, and will forever be relegated to the trash heap of history, as a wreckless, feckless pawn of the Soros/socialist establishment. Lock him up and throw away the key, along with Hillary! My old computer class instructor had an admonition to us “garbage in – garbage out!” Time to clean house, and toss out all the garbage!

  19. Wasn’t Comey supposed to serve and protect? Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Should describe him.
    Isn’t there a vetting system putting someone such as him in power? It seems he had his own agenda and ran with it. TDS runs deep in many.
    I really don’t understand this level of hate.
    Thanks for a great column.

  20. Climbing the Chaos ladder. Great final point. “Some are allowed to climb”. I learned at Marquette that the common theme in early New England literature was that life was chaos, and someone had to be in charge of it, controlling it. This is why the Deep State is so hard to destroy. This corrupt “fail up” ethos.

    MASA. Make America States Again

    That’s one way to beat this

  21. The Littlefinger GOT thing is nice , but ‘ruffiano’ ? A new day a new word . I wrote it down, as to not forget . Ruffiano , indeed!!

  22. I have been waiting for the Hur – Biden tapes to come out. Well, here they are and this is a great big scandal. Watched Maria on Fox this morning. She interviewed Kash Patel and Dan Bongino. Wow. I cannot wait for their evidence to get to Congress. The Jan 6 Pelosi inspired event will be the end of many of these Deep Staters. The far left extreme judges like that self important Boasberg must be eliminated from the bench. I do not know how that can be done, but he is despicable and something must be figured out legally to get him off the bench.

  24. 1. You are wrong about Comey never offering leniency. In the heat of the 2016 campaign, AG Loretta Lynch said she would not decide if Hillary Clinton would be prosecuted, and left it to Comey to decide–an unprecedented and totally inappropriate action on her part, but she was dealing with the fallout from her secret meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac at Skyharbor. And, Comey chose not to prosecute.

    2. In Trump’s first administration (when he was POTUS 45), Michigan Gov. Whitmer made a video about how important it was to fight Trump, and on the table behind her but on camera were blocks that read 8645. There was a kefuffle on the right, but it died down quickly as the media gave it no oxygen.

    link to a video sympathetic to Whitmer, presumably YouTube has dropped or shadow-banned all the vids that were critical of her, because this is all my search found:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aAU7IcLnAE

  25. Why is Comey’s act not considered as treasonous? Why is nobody pointing at him screaming “insurrectionist”? If a 6 year old said this type of thing, it could be excused, but Comey was the top of the pyramid of people who should keep their mouths shut.

  26. I would love to be a fly on the wall in a room when Jeanine Pirro interrogates him. Meanwhile, the Trump hating Heather Cox Richardson inferred in her column yesterday that MAGA was making too big a deal about this. I hope Comey is prosecuted and thrown in jail. Deep state liar!

  27. I have my doubts that anything will come of this.

    My suspicion is that the Non-Atomic Blonde, USAG Pam “Gov. DeSantis’ Revenge on Trump” Bondi opts to use “the established process of justice” as an excuse to slow-walk a Comey trial until Trump has left office, and/or the statute of limitations expires, whichever comes first.

    I have my doubts that a grand jury will even be impaneled, let alone allowed to issue an indictment as I’m sure the deep state has a number of federal judges lined up who will issue injunction after injunction in an attempt to so impede the process as to render it all but dead.

    For me, it’s clear that the USAG is little more than Bill Barr in drag, and Curry Breath is just a DEI version of Wray.

    Those two are deep-state plants.

  28. You bum,
    I fought very hard to avoid subscribing, but you beat me into submission. I think it was your appeal to the old ways, the olive oil and ice, so pertinent for the modern rats with which we contend. Now that I’ve enlisted, you need to hang in there or I’ll be sore. Not for long, mind you, as I’ll be 76 this August and, as Mom used to say, I have one foot on a banana peel and the other over the hole. Brom Bones will be ablush with choices for my demise. Til then, old man, Cent’anni. Keep up the Chicago way, much appreciated in Philly.

  29. John Kass hits the bullseye again…..as always. John, when 86 came into play, many years ago, it referenced the dimensions of a burial site, 8 foot by 6 foot. Of course a genuine FBI agent would not understand or “know” any of this….yes, I am laughing. Thank you for a brilliant column John Kass and God bless you and keep you and yours safe every day. Keep on keeping on.

  30. All this is unreal. And now with Biden news it appears Kamala may have been President had he won. Fasten your belts for the upcoming news cycle.

  31. Sorry John. Comey and his ilk may be despicable but the bar is set very high by Brandenburg v Ohio, 1969. Comey ain’t goin’ anywheres.

  32. Comey was a well groomed creature of “the Swamp” long before #45 came into office. He wasted no time in leashing his oily, brackish, fetid swamp miasma on the Trump administration. Starting with the entrapment of Flynn and the pushing of the dossier, the leaking etc. he was a major player in the deep state charade. This jerk has integrity, no patriotism, no class. His loyalty was to the deep state, to himself…not the country, not even the FBI.

  35. Will we get to see what happens to Comey if we make him drink olive oil and strap him to a block of ice? I’m as naive about the outcome as he says he is about the meaning of 8647.

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