Trump fires FBI director James Comey

[Starlight]

Trump, who says he's Definitely Not Under Investigation by Comey, has fired FBI director James Comey.



There's been speculation for some time now with the ongoing Russia scandal, whether Trump would try and fire Comey to prevent further investigation of Trump's Russia dealings.

[seer]

Trump, who says he's Definitely Not Under Investigation by Comey, has fired FBI director James Comey.



There's been speculation for some time now with the ongoing Russia scandal, whether Trump would try and fire Comey to prevent further investigation of Trump's Russia dealings.

About time, I mean The Dems were calling for Obama to fire Comey in the summer if I remember correctly...

[Mountain Man]

There's been speculation for some time now with the ongoing Russia scandal, whether Trump would try and fire Comey to prevent further investigation of Trump's Russia dealings.

Yeah, speculation by liberal morons like you.

Trump gave Comey every chance to distinguish himself, and he failed, so time for him to go. Actually, Trump is behaving like a very fair boss when a lot of people were wanting him to clean house from day one. All I can say is it's about time, and good riddance to Comey.

[Cow Poke]

It annoys Schumer. Check.

[guacamole]

Lol. How is this anything other than self-serving baloney. I'm flabbergasted at how clumsy this is. Time will tell if it works out though.

Fwiw,
G.-man

[Bill the Cat]

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[Bill the Cat]

There's been speculation for some time now with the ongoing Russia scandal, whether Trump would try and fire Comey to prevent further investigation of Trump's Russia dealings.

There's been ongoing speculation that the moon landing was faked too...

[JimL]

Trump, who says he's Definitely Not Under Investigation by Comey, has fired FBI director James Comey.



There's been speculation for some time now with the ongoing Russia scandal, whether Trump would try and fire Comey to prevent further investigation of Trump's Russia dealings.

Not really very surprising, Comey, the FBI director, is leading the investigation into the Trump campaign and its connections to Russian influence in the elections. The Atty Gen. Jeff Sessions was forced to recuse himself because of his own participation in that campaign and his own communications with Russians. Its just another attempt by the administration to interfere with and botch up the investigation. Truly amazing what is going on, even worse is the naivete of the Trump supporters who refuse to see it.

[Bill the Cat]

Not really very surprising, Comey, the FBI director, is leading the investigation into the Trump campaign and its connections to Russian influence in the elections. The Atty Gen. Jeff Sessions was forced to recuse himself because of his own participation in that campaign and his own communications with Russians. Its just another attempt by the administration to interfere with and botch up the investigation. Truly amazing what is going on, even worse is the naivete of the Trump supporters who refuse to see it.

Fix your tinfoil, Jimmy...

[Darth Executor]

Comey should have been fired day 1 for letting Hitlery walk.

[Meh Gerbil]

It is a good start.
Now let's see if Trump has the decency to indict Comey for dereliction of duty.

[rogue06]

Fix your tinfoil, Jimmy...

[Mountain Man]

Lol. How is this anything other than self-serving baloney. I'm flabbergasted at how clumsy this is. Time will tell if it works out though.

You nuts with your conspiracy theories.

"Trump fired Comey because he got too close to the truth!"



If Trump was worried about being investigated then why didn't he fire Comey straight away?

It seems more likely that Trump gave Comey enough rope to hang himself, and hang himself he did.

Oh, and the firing was recommended by Trump's Justice Department:

“President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions."

Source: Breitbart

The reason for Comey’s dismissal was not immediately made clear, but it followed the revelation Tuesday that the FBI director made a mistake while testifying in Congress last week — when he falsely testified that former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin had forward “hundreds of thousands” of emails to the laptop of her estranged husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner.

The FBI clarified the erroneous testimony in a letter to Congress earlier Tuesday, addressed to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.

“Most of the emails found on Mr. Weiner’s laptop computer related to the Clinton investigation occurred as a result of a backup of personal electronic devices,” the letter read.

The FBI noted the clear distinction between manually forwarding emails and having them uploaded via standard backup processes. The bureau said of nearly 50,000 emails on Weiner’s computer that were pertinent to the Clinton investigation, it found that only two with classified information were forwarded manually by Abedin and 10 were sent via the backup process — a substantial difference from Comey’s claim of “hundreds of thousands.”

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I mean, that's a pretty big screw-up, doncha think? Certainly not a mistake you'd expect from the head of the FBI. When someone screws up that badly, it's time for them to go.

[Terraceth]

Oh, and the firing was recommended by Trump's Justice Department:

“President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions."

Which might mean more if they weren't both appointed by Trump.

There were a number of issues with Comey so I'm not going to jump to the conclusion that it was an effort to suppress an investigation, but I don't think it means much to say someone was acting on the suggestions of people they put into power in the first place.

[Mountain Man]

Which might mean more if they weren't both appointed by Trump.

There were a number of issues with Comey so I'm not going to jump to the conclusion that it was an effort to suppress an investigation, but I don't think it means much to say someone was acting on the suggestions of people they put into power in the first place.

So... if you appoint someone to a position because of their expertise in a particular field, you shouldn't take their advice when it's relevant because you appointed them?



You'll have to connect the dots for me, because I'm not seeing what you're seeing.