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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Apr 30, 2026, 08:38 PM Thursday

Donny Two Scoops doubles down on '86' as mob term after Comey indictment

President Donald Trump doubled down on his claim that the term "86" is a "mob term" for a killing as former FBI Director James Comey faces a federal indictment over a social media post of seashells arranged to read "86 47."

"'86' is a mob term for 'kill him.' They say 86 him! '86 47' means 'kill President Trump,'" Trump wrote in a social media post Wednesday night, before going on to assail Comey as a "Dirty Cop" who "knows this full well!"

Comey, who was indicted on Tuesday by a federal grand jury in North Carolina, made an initial court appearance on Wednesday after self-surrendering to law enforcement at the courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia. Comey did not enter a plea.

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The Merriam-Webster dictionary, which lists several definitions of "eighty-six," says the most common use for the informal saying is to describe a way "to refuse to serve" or "to eject or ban" a customer from a restaurant or bar. The dictionary says it's often used as a way to say something has been removed. The American Heritage dictionary says the term may have derived as a rhyming slang for "nix."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-doubles-down-86-mob-152500484.html

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Donny Two Scoops doubles down on '86' as mob term after Comey indictment (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday OP
I suppose his credibility comes from intimate knowledge of mob affairs because...? SSJVegeta Thursday #1
Here's some homework for the legal eagles: find a single prior case where that term appears in an indictment. RockRaven Thursday #2

RockRaven

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2. Here's some homework for the legal eagles: find a single prior case where that term appears in an indictment.
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 08:46 PM
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With all of the mobsters who have been investigated/prosecuted by the FBI/DOJ from modern days to way back in the Hoover days, if The Dotard isn't a fat fucking liar then it should be trivial to find one such case.

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