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Donald Trump to James Comey: You’re Fired!
President Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey.
WH statement on Comey firing: pic.twitter.com/W1MffToCvj
— Pamela Engel (@PamEngel12) May 9, 2017
Here is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein writing in a memo that Comey’s July 5, 2016, news conference was a fireable offense:
Newly confirmed DAG Rod Rosenstein lays out the case for firing Comey in memo sent out by the White House https://t.co/K8Zoe0xzVP pic.twitter.com/0MdMjqMCi2
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) May 9, 2017
Read the whole thing, as well as Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s letter to Trump and Trump’s letter to Comey.
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He should have done this on his first day in office. Now it will be an S-Storm.
This is not terribly surprising, but the stated reason is the first press conference he held during the election.
Should have been done the day he listed all the laws broken by Hillary, then proceeded to say that no sane prosecutor would pursue it.
Maybe now we’ll see some perp walks.
In many ways he was a dead man walking, critics on every side of the aisle. He made too many enemies with the Clinton investigation, attempting to split the baby just enraged everyone. It might have been best if he had just resigned then instead of delivering his “guilty but not guilty” verdict.
Likely best for the agency as well. Clinton is clearly intending to continue beating the “Comey cost me the election.” drum thus keeping the Democrats outraged, very difficult to lead the agency in that sort of environment.
FBI Director Schwarzenegger may have a tough set of confirmation hearings to get through.
Why wait until now?
Andrew McCabe should be the next one to go:
Even more tainted than Comey.
Once you politicize law enforcement, to include Congressional and Senate investigations all credibility disappears regardless of the agency involved. I was struck by the fact that in the initial investigations and hearings that no one from the FBI, NSA, and the CIA that testified exhibited no desire to look for who was leaking information to the media.
This politicization extends to the local level as well. In the Freddy Gray case the prosecutor’s office in spite of repeated warnings from a judge suffered defeat after defeat in their prosecutions.
Maybe there is something in the water on the East Coast, but whatever the problem is corruption seems to be a way of life the closer you get to Washington DC.
“I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors as pool boy at one of Pat Sajak’s summer homes.”
@patsajak
Very interesting reasoning from Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein. Basically summing it up as Comey botching the HRC investigation by publicly announcing no prosecution and not putting the burden on the Justice Department to make that call.
Watch for the amazing rehabilitation of Comey among Democrats. Hypocrisy/outrage overload.
Dang I have to go out for dinner now. Don’t talk about me and don’t say anything interesting till I get back.
Never have.
I hope Koskinen is next.
Its hard to imagine the Democrats really being THAT upset about this guy going … Getting a replacement confirmed (in a timely manner) maybe a little troublesome. OH! RUDY! RUDY!
Whatchya think Rudy Giuliani?
I’m confused at the outrage by Dems. Weren’t they calling for his head? Now they are apoplectic tin-foil hatters.
[sarc./off]
About darn time.
Bill Kristol: “I’ll repeat: ‘Trump’s 1st term increasingly feels like Nixon’s 2nd.'”
EstabliCon take is in.
Wouldn’t dream of it, darlin’. ?
The Muh Putin crowd is verklempt, as expected.
RA! You stole my epitaph!! That’s what they’ve been told to put on my gravestone. I’m serious! (Had we discussed this on another thread?:)
The hysteria will continue until we have an election “do-over”. Not the most famous clause in the the Constitution but John Adam’s favorite I believe.
Trump’s decision to fire Comey confirms everything I’ve ever thought and anyone who disagrees with me is either a bad person, a hypocrite, a snowflake or — more likely — some unholy combination of the three.
As soon as I figure out what side I’m on, I’ll let you all know.
That may be wishful thinking, but we’ll see.
This is great. Now the president who is under investigation by the FBI will be able to pick a new guy to be in charged the FBI.
Hooray for accountability.
Yes, it’s odd, or maybe a lower priority behind confirming Gorsuch and getting the health-care bill through the House.