President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey—a move that comes as the FBI is probing contacts between Trump’s campaign aides and Russian officials ahead of last year’s presidential election.
Regardless of how you feel about his timing of talking about the Clinton Email Mess, this is not good.
With the FBI Director gone, Trump can appoint his own, and given the nature of his administration, it will be someone who will kiss his ass, who will not be inclined to prosecute, and might well try and dismiss information.
The President firing someone investigating the White House is insane, and the reasons that are stated make it even more suspicious:
Memos released by the White House show that Rod J. Rosenstein, the newly sworn-in deputy attorney general, recommended that Mr. Comey be fired over how he disclosed the investigation into Mrs. Clinton. (X)
Fired because of how he handled the Clinton investigation?
While many people had an issue with it, Trump and his election committee were not any of them.
Let’s not forget his instances of insisting she was hiding things. He even advocated treason in asking Russia to hack her to find these emails.
Don’t forget this infamous bit:
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clinton’s deleted emails. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
Trump as a candidate did not care about how Comey handled the investigation. He thrived on it.
Saying Comey was fired for how he handled things months ago is not only laughable, it’s suspicious.
In fact, it has been drawing comparisons to the Saturday Night Massacre, and with good reason. (To sum up a more complicated event:)
That was when Richard Nixon fired independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the Watergate Scandal.
Let’s not forget that Trump has also been insisting that it’s not his fault Michael Flynn ended up being a problem, because Obama was the one that hired him originally. Only, Obama told him not to hire Flynn when Trump visited two days after he won the election. In fact, Sally Yates expressed concerns as well a week after inauguration.
And if Miss Yates sounds familiar, she was the Attorney General until Trump fired her for saying that the Justice Department wouldn’t uphold his travel ban.
So he, at least twice, ignored people who warned him about the issues with Flynn, and now he’s fired the FBI director, who was in the middle of investigating his White House, with a shitty excuse, blaming behavior he has never at all hesitated to praise.
And don’t think it was just Flynn either. Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort was investigated too.
But what does it say that Comey was fired the day after Sally Yates testified that she’d told the White house about Flynn before?
You can only see smoke so long before you notice the flames.
If there was anything to make hell about right now, this is it.
Here’s how to find your Representative.
We need an independent prosecutor and we need them now.
Trump fires FBI Director James Comey
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