FBI Director James Comey of signaling an assassination attempt through a cryptic Instagram post, calling the now-deleted image "a call to kill" and saying "a child knows what that meant." Tensions between Trump and Comey have run high since Trump fired him in 2017 while Comey was leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election,

President Donald Trump fired James Comey as FBI director in 2017 amid an investigation by the bureau into Trump campaign ties to Russia.