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Trump fires FBI Director James Comey [W:839]

nota bene said:
Why do you think Trump is afraid? Seems to me, whether you like him or not or agree with his decision or not, firing Comey was bold. Shouldn't he have been afraid that Comey knew too much and would spill the beans if fired?
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The firing was hurried and bungled badly. Comey found out about it on TV. It is not the way these things are done. Trump is scared ****less about the Russian investigation and will do anything to derail it. Comey is a professional and the evidence is classified. Trump is hoping to get a replacement who will bow to his needs and cover up the evidence of a crime.
 
JasperL said:
You can read. I said it was "almost unheard of" (Sessions is the only other one) and the circumstances were entirely different. In fact the ethical charges made against William Sessions were levied before Clinton took over by Barr, who was Bush's AG. Furthermore, obviously Sessions wasn't investigating Clinton at the time.

And of course you ignored the rest...
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And Comey was not investigating Trump at the time he was fired. What's your point?
 
nota bene said:
Why do you think Trump is afraid? Seems to me, whether you like him or not or agree with his decision or not, firing Comey was bold. Shouldn't he have been afraid that Comey knew too much and would spill the beans if fired?
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He's too arrogant and bumblingly incompetent to understand the consequences of his decision.

Trump effusively praised Comey (even blew him an air kiss earlier this year) and Trump never complained that Comey was too hard on or unfair to the Hillary Clinton campaign, or Clinton herself, until he needed a reason to fire him.

Had he done so on day 1, it might have flown. But after finding out that Comey wouldn't back him up on his bogus wiretap claims, and that Trump's campaign was under investigation (and therefore Trump himself) and that Comey wanted a LOT more money to expand the investigations? Really?

And the termination letter from Trump that mentions Trump's own potential criminal liability three times? "Thanks for confirming you're not investigating me." Are you kidding?

Utterly unhinged clown car w/no brakes and only three wheels. The White House is losing control of this story.
 
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Winston said:
He made a recco. DOJ followed it. BFD.

Condescension noted and disregarded,

So, if no indictments come we'll know it was a phony excuse.
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If you still refuse to inform yourself of what the role of the FBI director and or the FBI is then there's not much I can do for you

Your'e guided by ideology and not by truth and knowledge, which is a shame

I used to think you were a kid, 17-24 years old until you revealed your age to be 30.
You should have grown out of your idealistic phase by now
Im guessing you still live with your parents and probably work for them too
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This is turning even more people against the DNC and media.

Keep digging that grave. Get those vagina hats out. Burn down a university. Do your thing, libs!
 
Fenton said:
If you still refuse to inform yourself of what the role of the FBI director and or the FBI is then there's not much I can do for you

Your'e guided by ideology and not by truth and knowledge, which is a shame

I used to think you were a kid, 17-24 years old until you revealed your age to be 30.
You should have grown out of your idealistic phase by now
Im guessing you still live with your parents and probably work for them too
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Condescension noted and discarded.

So, with Comey not breathing down the federal prosecutors necks in the DOJ, they can bring a grand jury indictment of Clinton and if they don't. We'll know Trump told the DOJ to make something up.
 
Tangmo said:
The guy taking office was what Trump wuz waiting for.

Comey was a goner long ago. Just a matter of Trump getting the ducks in a row. Then pull the trigger using Rosenstein.

Comey was oblivious throughout which is just another reflection of Comey being the numbnuts bungling idiot incompetent he revealed himself to be.

Trump is of course no smarter. This is now moving toward public opinion supporting a special prosecutor. Republicans need to start stepping back and away from Trump. Next few dayze will be critical either way as to which way this is likely to go.
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The special prosecutor law expired in 1999. The Attorney General or Deputy Attorney general can appoint a special counsel, or Congress can. However considering that there were no special prosecutors appointed or requested by the democrats during the Obama Administration, despite scandals like Hillary email server and the Clinton Foundation that ethically screamed for one, I doubt that the GOP will feel obligated to appoint one.....especially for the witch hunt going on now. There is no evidence of any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians to defeat Hillary. This is a partisan driven investigation looking for a scandal.
 
chuckiechan said:
I understand that there are already investigations both on the the Trump/Russia thing and the Obama admin snooping on candidates.

A new FBI head may also include Clinton, Inc. and the Clinton Foundation, and Huma and The Weiner having classified e mails on her unsecured lap top. No one has to go to jail, but some bitchslapping would be nice.
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You realize the Trump propagandists were on Faux News whining that it's been over a year, time to let the Russian collusion thing go? And now they're saying they should re-open a case on Hillary from years ago?

Btw, if there was collusion or bribes or whatever, that would mean Trump was involved in releasing those classified emails too, so no matter how they spin this, it looks corrupt as ****

Innocent people don't obstruct justice by firing someone investigating them
 
Erod said:
This is turning even more people against the DNC and media. Keep digging that grave. Get those vagina hats out. Burn down a university. Do your thing, libs!
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Oh this isn't the fringe left SJW idiots you have to worry about. He's a dud.

Presidential Approval Ratings -- Donald Trump | Gallup

Trump: Most recent weekly average 42 May 1-7, 2017

(May of first year)
Barack Obama 65
George W. Bush 55
Bill Clinton 45
George H.W. Bush 60
Ronald Reagan 68
Jimmy Carter 65
Richard Nixon 63
John Kennedy 75
Dwight Eisenhower 74
 
Redress said:
Trump fires FBI Director James Comey - POLITICO



The timing could not be worse for how this appears.
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I don't think anyone has said this, but to me the way he was fired was really cheesy. He should have done it in person. He has shown more respect to the people he fired on the apprentice than to the head of the FBI. I thought they way he handled it was really awful. It was not a time to be impulsive.
 
Manc Skipper said:
The problem with this argument is that if that were the reason, then he should have been fired on day one of the Trump administration. Instead, we see the leader of the investigation into the Trump admin's links to Russia being hastily fired by Trump on the recommendation of one of those being investigated, who had to recuse himself for having those links.
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Trump could have fired Comey on day one, however most presidents tend to wait until their high level cabinet appointments confirmed. And the left was already wetting it's pants leading into day one with their Russian collusion witch hunt. You would have made the same accusation against Trump then.
 
ObamacareFail said:
Trump could have fired Comey on day one, however most presidents tend to wait until their high level cabinet appointments confirmed. And the left was already wetting it's pants leading into day one with their Russian collusion witch hunt. You would have made the same accusation against Trump then.
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The potential for it to have been somewhat bad then, in no way changes how absolutely stupid it was to do it right now.
Nor does it change the white house bull**** reason.
Nor does it change the assholish way they let him go (he found out on the news while in a meeting with colleagues)

Keep apologizing for that big turd in office, it's helping your soul I'm sure of it.
 
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