Has everyone in Washington D.C., or formerly employed there lost their minds? It's a question worth asking. Former FBI Director James Comey is under investigation for social media posts that ostensibly threatened Donald Trump's life. The guy who talked incessantly about "norms" is sure violating some critical ones.

Is it a real threat or Comey's idea of boosting book sales? Honestly, it's impossible to tell. He posted on Instagram a picture of seashells in the ocean that spelled out "86 47." Everyone had the same reaction: Is Comey calling for someone to take out Trump?

Comey ended up deleting the post and lamely explaining: "I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. I never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down."

That somehow is even worse. He knew it was a political message, and as America's former top cop, he unquestionably knew what the message conveyed. Further, no one really believes he just happened to come across the seashells. It seems more plausible that he made the sign himself.

His excuse reads like the eternal excuse from the accused: "It's not mine, I'm just holding it for a friend." No one believes that, and no one believes this weak excuse either.

On top of everything else, it raises immediate questions about what kind of person James Comey is and how he ran the FBI. This is not behavior any public official should ever show in any capacity.

I also know the outrage won't be large enough for this. If we switched parties, this would lead every major newspaper in America for weeks. If a Democrat is elected President after Trump, and Kash Patel comes out with a post that says "86 48," there would be overwhelming outrage. And justifiably so!

We have already witnessed a form of this in the Biden administration. Multiple outlets spent months trying to accuse conservative Supreme Court Justices of ill intent for flying various historical flags at their homes and beach houses. Justice Alito had numerous stories written about him, and reporters chased down every person in their lives on this topic.

Predictably, the same reporters had fewer questions about the man who tried to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh.

Part of this is an ongoing media bias issue, but that's nothing new. We're watching that play out with the daily Biden health decline bombshell stories. Every day, there's some new explosive claim that further illustrates how out to lunch the press was on a given day. It seems clear the 25th Amendment should have been invoked, but that's a conversation no one wants to have.

The line that crosses through all these stories is one of norms and expectations. If a Republican takes this act, we're supposed to see it as a dangerous affront to the country. But when the opposing side does the same thing, it gets swept under the rug.

Comey posting a message that anyone with a brain reads as a violent threat against Trump gets ignored. When Democrats rush into an ICE facility, get into altercations with police officers, and put up a bizarre scene, Republicans are wrong to punish them or recommend arrests.

Or when a grand jury indicts a Wisconsin judge for helping an illegal immigrant avoid detection by ICE, we're supposed to see the arrest as the wrong part. Democrats rush out to defend the judge. We get idiotic speeches about the rule of law.

James Comey is the former head of the FBI. He inserted himself in the 2016 election and continued to do the same in the first Trump administration. His social media post reminds us that we likely need a full reckoning about what the FBI was doing under his tenure.

This is not how we want the FBI leadership to act, on any level. Comey's actions bring back visions of the FBI that spied on Americans and violated civil rights left and right. Comey's post is the sort of thing you expect from people who view themselves above the law and everything else.

He earned this investigation and interview from the Secret Service. Democrats may try to paint this as overkill, but let us not forget: Donald Trump has already survived two assassination attempts, and we know Iran has hired hitmen to go after him. The Iranian threat is so real that his staff split up during the campaign travel.

Comey is a lot of things, but he's not an idiot. He could be trying to sell more books. But he knows the meaning of those numbers and how people would read them. He already admitted he knew it was a political point. It's just another reminder of a man viewing himself beyond the law and its reach. Everything Comey declares in his head is morally true.

But he's proving the exact opposite. That's a signal to investigate his tenure.