Former FBI Director James Comey is a “wise guy” who should be held up for “public scorn” for his Instagram post showing seashells arranged in the numbers “86 47,” which President Donald Trump and others in the administration insist was his call for the assassination the president, former Rep. Pete King said on Newsmax.

However, he told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend Sunday” that he doesn’t think Comey was calling for anyone to kill the president.

“He knew what he was doing here,” the New York Republican said. “I don’t think he intended to kill the president or anything like that. He was trying to be a wise guy to show that he’s a little cute.”

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