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Boyle’s office disagrees. In their filing, they wrote that there is no real dispute that an objective person could interpret Comey’s post as meaning “Kill President Trump.” Prosecutors noted that Comey has already acknowledged that “47” was a reference to Trump himself, and they cited Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, which lists multiple meanings for “86” over the decades, including definitions tied to throwing something out, killing, or being finished with something.