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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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Hear, hear! Down with other people.
Poor, poor Comey he was doomed from the moment he held that press conference where he kind of sort of but not really indited Hillary. At that point if Hillary won he would be out for crossing her, and if Trump won he would be out for not crossing her hard enough. Then to seal his fate, he released that letter to guarantee that all the Democrats hate him too. Did Comey have any friends in Washington?
Easy – Trump had to wait because the Democrats would have pounced no matter what. He needed to get the rest of his team in place, including the last positions in the DOJ. Plus Gorsuch, a shot at the AHCA, and a pile of executive orders. Why start the “S-Storm” from his first day in office? Who says it would have been any less of a political circus from the Dems if it was on the first day? As I recall, the full lack of evidence of collusion with Russia hadn’t been established as it (largely) is now. Imagine Trump doing this before the hearings featuring Comey.
Let’s face it – Trump can do no right with some people so I’m just glad Trump did the right things regardless of the timing. Surely you don’t think Trump would get a pass if this happened in January.
Partial list of replacements:
Trey Growdy
Bill Bratton
Chris Christie
Rudy Guilliani
David Clarke
I think my favorite on this list is Trey Growdy… Rudy is probably not interested…
I’ve yet to hear a plausible reason why the timing matters. Most if not all of the criticisms would have been made in January too.
To be clear, Comey did not misstate the number of emails Huma had loaded onto Weiner’s computer. He misstated the number of emails that Huma sent to Weiner for the purposes of printing.
If Comey’s continuing in office threatens the credibility of the FBI, as suggested in the DAG’s memo, then waiting to fire Comey increased the harm that he theoretically caused. In other words, the stated rationale for firing is inconsistent with the timing.
It’s a good start. Maybe Kushner will be next.
I have been worried about one friend’s mental state for over a year now. The election seems to have sent him over the edge.
Please, no more taking good Conservative members of Congress. We’re running out of good guys there. Gowdy is in the perfect place, where America needs him most.
Chris “I’m only Conservative when compared to the rest of New Jersey” Christie is not Conservative enough. Do I have to post that picture of him holding hands with Pelosi again?
Bratton… from Boston. Not sure about that, I’ll say maybe.
Rudy is too old, and his last couple of speeches were indicative of someone approaching senility. I don’t want someone we will need to replace in a year.
I think Clarke would be fine somewhere in the Department of Justice, but not running the place.
To be fair, I can’t think of anyone off the top of my head. Just no Comey-style bureaucrats, please.
The president is not under investigation.
Ted Nugent. ?
Well… it would be an interesting experiment if we could do it, since James Comey made himself the single most hated man in America. It would be like trying to see what would happen if an unstoppable force met an immovable object.
Heh! I’d pay money just to see the swearing-in!
That would probably pretty boring … The real fun would be at the confirmation hearings.
Bah ha! Ted Nugent vs Nancy Pelosi – the line of people wanting to get in would stretch for miles!
Maybe not, but people related to his campaign are.
Fred’s statement was “Now the president who is under investigation by the FBI” – try to keep up.
https://twitter.com/Just_a_Texan/status/862077277542248449
Well within the bounds of this discussion. Trumps campaign is being investigated. The man at the head of that campaign was? Can you keep up?
Jonah get’s is about right:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/447462/james-comey-firing-donald-trump-reasoning-doesnt-hold?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=goldberg&utm_content=comey
Woo-Dee-Hoo! Guilt by association! Score!
When you’re outta ammo, quit typing.
Speaking as a long-time Jonah reader/supporter, he’s fulla C**p. Sorry to say so, but his mind has taken a detour into leftie land. I read this and hear, Blah, blah, blah, Ginger.
The 44th President didn’t have a problem with Comey giving his opinion and recommendation and neither did his Attorney General. If the AG thought Clinton should have been prosecuted, she could have ignored Comey’s recommendation and prosecuted. But we now know that Clinton was never going to be prosecuted by the Obama Administration. And Comey must have known that all along. If he had privately recommended prosecution, been ignored, and then resigned, the whole thing might have been swept under the rug and Clinton might have cruised to victory last November. By speaking up and doing his best to inform us of what Clinton had done, Comey performed a patriotic act. While I can understand why this Justice Department and Democrats wanted him out, The American People owe Comey a debt of gratitude for preventing Clinton from winning the presidency.
If he erred, it was in trying to protect his job by hedging. At the time, Clinton was still the favorite to win. She would have had a very hard time firing him if she had won, given the fact that Comey had “saved” her candidacy on the one hand, while actively investigating the Clinton Foundation on the other. Her hands would have been tied.
I understood that reference.
I saw it this way at the time too, up to a point. I would have preferred him to state all the laws she broke, then say she should be indicted, and then resign if (I mean when) Lynch declined to prosecute. When he said that no sane prosecutor would pursue it and then added that incomprehensible part about “intent,” he lost all credibilty and got both sides to hate him. It was just so weird.
I am not far from your side on this.
It’s unfortunate, but he was hopelessly compromised by his handling of that affair. I don’t think anyone could work for Barack Obama (or the Clintons) without becoming ethically compromised.
I notice that you don’t bother to address his arguments. This is rather typical of the way you stalk me through the comments. I hate to break it to you, mate, but I’m married.
For me, the fun part was watching the TV pundits trying to weave this all into a coherent theory. Kind of like when local news anchors try to explain anything; they just keep spouting gibberish and stare into the camera as if they know something, even though everyone knows they’re just as confused as everyone else.
The Democrats are trying to spin this as proof that the FBI was getting closer to the bombshell that the Russians screwed Hillary and Trump helped them. As if such evidence was being scrupulously covered up by the Justice Department– you know, that department that isn’t at all full of partisan hacks for the Democrats. My guess is that any of them had a hint of evidence, by now it would have been leaked more than the Johnstown Flood.
The whole thing feels to me like there’s nothing there. Wake me if that changes.