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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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John McCain and friends in the GOP Senate prefer to talk about Russia! Sad.
Maybe now we’ll get to the bottom of the Susan Rice unmasking scandal.
Yeah. Firing Comey means tax reform ain’t happening this year.
James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, said there was no evidence of collusion.
What form would this collusion take? A phone call or email from the campaign telling the Russians to hack the DNC? They were going to do that anyway. Or maybe the Russians called up and asked what they should do with it? Nuts. Describe the supposed collusion in a way that doesn’t make me laugh and maybe I’ll reconsider.
And all the evidence — all the evidence — of Russian involvement was collected and examined by Crowdstrike, an outfit that the DNC itself hired. The FBI is taking their word for it, apparently.
Apparently, Colbert’s audience didn’t get the new liberal talking points. They cheered the news of Comey’s firing.
For the people who are assuming that Trump’s motive is to bury the Russia investigation:
What good would firing the FBI director do to stop that? It’s not like James Comey is out himself looking underneath Mar-a-Lago for the secret Soviet gold that was used to pay Trump and everyone around him off. It’s not like even if a new FBI director was put in place tomorrow that that entire investigation would stop cold and just go away.
Even if you start with the premise that Trump is totally in Putin’s pocket in some dastardly illegal way, what does Comey’s firing accomplish? The best case would be that it sould delay an indictment or revelation a few more months. What would be the point of Trump doing that if Trump were actually dirty?
But they booed properly at the name “Jeff Sessions.” So they’re trainable.
They heard “Blah blah blah…Trump…blah blah blah…Jeff Sessions”. Colbert had to hit em on the snout with a newspaper to get em to bark at the right time.
Oh, I assumed Cue Card Guy was holding up a sign that said “Boo Now!”
Every time a Democrat is asked about evidence of Trump-Russia collusion they say “there is no evidence…yet.” When will the answer just be “no, there is none”? Comey gave the Democrat-media complex the drama they needed to keep the story alive. If you replace Comey with a boring, tight-lipped, by-the-book professional, the masses are gonna tune out, and the story dies. At some point, you have to have evidence that implicates Trump himself. I doubt that exists.
it makes me sick that they’re investigating Russia instead of Benghazi and an illicit secret email server in a bathroom and a secretary of state who compromised national security and used her power for personal gain. Why can’t we ever act like we’re the ones who won?
Doing this tells me that either Trump knows they have nothing, or he’s dumber than even I thought. I’m giving him the benefit of a doubt for the time being. ;)
You didn’t actually read it, did you?
CFR Chapter VI:
It looks to me like the DAG (since the AG is recused) has the authority to specify what should be investigated. The DAG could specify Trump campaign-Russian collusion to hack the DNC and HRC’s email server. Inclusion of the latter would probably send the Dem’s through the roof and expose their obvious political motivations. Besides, HRC’s crimes are much easier to prove than President Trump’s. If it’s a witch hunt they want, then let their witch be hunted too.
It was rather amusing, like a pack of barking seals.
I think its more that he’s from business he lets his managers choose their own team; and rosenstien didn’t like comey, thus Trump backed his guy.
I don’t think we have to look to far into it.
Joe, you’re trying to talk logic to people who just plain hate President Trump and don’t care about truth any more. Even the Democrats, including Feinstein and others, are now admitting that there is no evidence, and there likely never will be any evidence (after over 180 days of digging) that the “Russian Interference” is not a hoax.
So, when even the Democrats admit there is no evidence, and still the folks on here can’t accept that Trump won fair and square, nothing you can ever say will change their minds. They are hopelessly lost. From now on, whenever one of The Lost mentions Russia, I’m just moving on to the next comment.
That’s all these shows are. So-called “Comedian” comes out and spews out ignorant political garbage, audience of low-information voters (i.e., Democrat base) barks and applauds like trained seals.
I’m waiting for the day someone from the audience just yells SHUT UP! or dozens of people just walk out. For all I know that already happens, but it’s edited out by airtime.
I am guessing that an investigation will turn up exactly what Di-Fi says it will:
Good point. But theirs can’t be a witch hunt because a witch hunt means looking for something that isn’t there.
Yeah, and Trump had no chance of being elected president. Oh wait…
The point is to investigate until they find something that can be used either legally or politically against Trump. They want a special prosecutor that will investigate Trump and all around him continuously until he is impeached and a new election is held.
Let’s expand the scope of the investigation to include Hillary’s email server. Can any reasonable person say that’s not a fair compromise?
At this point I think they’re not even shooting that high. They know there’s nothing there, but they want to keep the investigation going just so they can say, “The President is under investigation.”
Yes, that is not a fair compromise.
Hillary is toast, she has no political future – trading risk to Trump’s future for risk to Hillary’s is frankly stupid. IF there is to be special prosecutors they should look into Hillary’s email server – and the cover up that prevented criminal action against her and her minions. Its the cover up, that extends right into the democrat establishment. Shouldn’t there be some kind of Probable Cause, in order to get a special prosecutor?
I would not count Hillary out yet. She still has an election or two left in her if the Left gets behind and really pushes. Part of that push is to tear down Trump and the GOP. Given that #NeverTrump and GOP Establishment are behind it maybe they can get the old girl elected yet.
Count her out. She’ll be 70 in October, not in good health. I highly doubt that in 2020 at 74, she’ll be capable of running for anything.
The Democrats don’t have anybody else.
:: sad trombone ::
They’ll find somebody
::sad trombone::
In 2 presidential runs the democrat donor class dumped around (if not more than) $2 billion dollars on her campaigns. They have virtually nothing to show for it. I dont think she’ll be able to raise the cash to run again.