FBI Director Kash Patel said his bureau has been overwhelmed by ‘copycat’ threats to Donald Trump‘s life after James Comey shared a controversial Instagram post calling to ’86 47.’ 

Patel told Fox News‘ Bret Baier that the former FBI Director’s post, which showed seashells on a beach arranged as the numbers, forced him to redirect resources as Trump critics followed suit. 

The term ’86’ is often used in hospitality to mean ‘get rid’ of something, but it has also been used in the mafia to mean a grave eight feet long and six feet deep

‘Do you know how many copycats we’ve had to investigate as a result of that beachside venture from the former director?’ Patel said. 

‘Do you know how many agents I’ve had to take offline from chasing down child sex predators, fentanyl traffickers, terrorists?’ 

‘Because everywhere across this country people are popping up on social media and think that a threat to the life of the president of the United States is a joke… and they can do it because [Comey] did it?’ 

Patel grew frustrated as he said he has been made to ‘deal with this every single day’, adding that he believes Comey thought it was ‘funny’ to share his seashell post. 

The FBI did not immediately respond to a request from DailyMail.com for details on the threats to Trump’s life that they have been inundated with. 

But it comes after two assassination attempts upended the presidential election last year, with a gunman’s bullet grazing Trump’s ear in Butler, Pennsylvania in July in one of the most stunning security lapses in modern US history. 

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