Fox Industry host Maria Bartiromo slammed former FBI director James Comey for occurring MSNBC to “lie” that his controversial “86 47” social media publish was once “absolutely innocent.”

The Instagram image posted on Thursday, showing seashells placed to read out the coded numbers, sparked a wave of backlash from Republicans and fury from President Donald Trump, who stated that Comey used to be calling for his “assassination.”

As the scandal unraveled, Comey pleaded lack of knowledge in an interview with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Monday and insisted his post used to be no longer meant as a violent threat. The previous FBI director defined that he and his spouse understood the term “86” to be a cafe parlance for elimination.

On Fox Industry on Tuesday, however, Bartiromo tore into Comey’s protection and accused him of including “insult to injury.”

That is insult to harm, to listen to him act so naïve. That’s insult to injury. We all know ‘86’ method, do away with something and I’m pretty certain he knew as FBI director. To take a seat there and lie on MSNBC as if we’re that silly? Insult to harm.

Watch above via Fox Trade.

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