In April 2026, a federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey on charges that he threatened U.S. President Donald Trump. In response, many people online claimed that Trump himself had posted arguably threatening messages to and about his political rivals over the years, including an image depicting former President Joe Biden bound in the back of a truck.
Trump allegedly posted it in the form of a video in 2024, when he was still a presidential candidate running for a second term. Referencing the video in 2026, a Facebook user wrote: "Not so long ago, Donald Trump posted a picture of a bound & gagged President Biden in the back of a truck. Trump didn't apologize & he didn't take it down."
A still image is from a post on X shows the same truck:
Trump did indeed post such a video on his Truth Social account on March 29, 2024. We found additional evidence of it in archives that preserve Trump's past posts. There are no signs that the video was altered or deceptively edited. As such, we rate this claim as true.
Captioned "3/28/24 | LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK," the video shows cars and trucks displaying flags and pro-Trump political slogans driving along a highway. A pickup with "Trump 2024" signs and black-and-white American flags with a blue line (commonly interpreted as showing support for law enforcement but also used by white supremacists) sported an image of a hog-tied Biden. (Although some users sharing the claim said Biden was gagged in addition to being bound, that was not the case.)
In this screenshot from the video, the image of Biden in restraints can be seen in the lower right corner:
(Truth Social user @realDonaldTrump)
In May 2025, Comey posted a photograph of seashells on a beach arranged to form the numbers "86 47." He wrote in the caption: "Cool shell formation on my beach walk."
Republicans accused Comey of threatening Trump's life, arguing that "86" (a number probably best known as a slang term in food service for having run out of or getting rid of something) coupled with "47" (Trump is the 47th president) was a call to assassinate Trump.
Snopes has covered numerous rumors about Comey, as well as fake Truth Social posts attributed to Trump.