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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

NYT reporter’s hilarious ‘Steak au Poivre’ anecdote serves up true meaning of ‘86’ after Trump weighs in on Comey’s arrest

The Justice Department’s indictment of former FBI Director James Comey spawned a debate in D.C. circles over the term “86” he used in a since-deleted Instagram post — one that DOJ officials allege was meant as a call to kill the president.

But a New York Times reporter known for her sources in Trumpworld joked in a CNN segment Wednesday night that few people would take the meaning of Comey’s Instagram post that way as she recalled her time in the restaurant biz and the original meaning of the Depression-Era term.

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