The Secret Service reportedly engaged in a clandestine operation to trail and track ex-FBI Director James Comey the day after he was accused of calling for President Donald Trump‘s assassination.
Comey was on vacation in North Carolina in May when he posted a photo of seashells spelling out 86 47 – which Donald Trump Jr. claimed was the former FBI director ‘casually calling for my dad to be murdered.’
Many other Trump administration officials soon also asserted that Comey was advocating for the 47th president’s assassination.
Comey has since denied that he ever intended to harm Trump, and even told Secret Service officials that when they questioned him over the phone that night.
But the next day, the Secret Service had Comey followed by law enforcement authorities in unmarked cars and street clothes as he and his wife traveled from North Carolina, through Virginia and to their home in the Washington DC area, the New York Times reports.
The agency also tracked his cellphone and was receiving real-time information about Comey’s location as authorities waited at the former FBI director’s house for him to return, three government officials with knowledge of the operation told the Times.
The shocking revelation comes amid a federal investigation into Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan for allegedly lying to Congress during their probe into claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election – which Trump won over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
When asked about the FBI investigation on Wednesday, Trump ominously suggested Comey and Brennan may have to ‘pay a price’ as he called both former officials ‘crooked.’
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